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Yesterday we missed out visiting Museo Piccaso and that is now top of our list of place to see in Malaga Centre.
The first thing we wanted to do in the city centre was, to buy a map of city tour. I pulled a map from a display unit outside the tourist shop and began searching for the Museo Picasso. The information would have been freely obtained if I had been able to find the street name of the museum.
I couldn't find it on the map so I start questioning the sales assistant who couldn't figure out where it is. She had to ask her assistance to help me. He pointed out a couple of places in Spanish but I wasn't convinced to buy the first map. So I went for an expensive map, that’s extra 50 cents. The map indicates all major attractions in Malaga centre but in all Spanish. What else should I expect in Spain?
Having secured a city map, we positively headed all the way back to the point where we begin our tour this morning. It wasn't really far from us, literally less than 100 meters away from where we have been glancing
at the map, there is sign to Pablo Picasso. We have already passed the same street corner more than four times since we have been in Malaga centre. The Museo Piccaso is tucked away on a pedestrian street in what was medieval Málaga’s judería. Until you stand in front of it, there is no other way you could notice MUSEOPICASSOMALAGA in red massive letters. Here we are now in front of the museum; no let's leave the visit for afternoon session.
Most of the day we spent visiting Alcazaba located at the foothole of Gibralfaro. Of course there weren't any Muslim armies marching on the rampant of Alcazaba nowadays, all of them were kicked out into the ocean or converted back to Christianity. We just entered through the ticket office after saying Hola (A very first word to learn in Spanish) to a middle aged lady who sat there with a free smile on her face. I must admit it was a bit of hassle for me to obtain tickets from the very old fashioned ticket machine. After pressing, screwing and shaking it, I realised that I had caused too much confusion to it. The next visitor behind me
was kind enough to show me the button indicating print ticket.
The Alcazaba is a fine Moorish fortress and palace - a miniature Alhambra.
The brick path winds uphill, interspersed with arches and stone walls. It is such a beautiful place for us to visit as we could see the surrounding city enliven the walk, the Roman artefacts and fleeting views of the harbour and while thousands of roses and jasmine perfume the air.
Its towering ramparts and cool, colonnaded courtyards and gardens evoke the essence of Spain’s Moorish history.
Near lunch, we sat down near the ruins of Roman theatre to discuss what to eat. We had choices Tapas or Malaga specialist. Malaga is famous for its "pescaito frito", a selection of small fried fish such as sardines, baby oysters and red mullets. No doubt we can go to any restaurant to try either Tapas or a plate of fried fish. As we reached no decision on lunch break, we strolled back, heading toward the cathedral. The sun was setting behind the massive building next to Obispo. This is the exact place where I am going to try that very famous dish. A local band is
almost singing loud enough. The scene is perfectly set for pescaito frito!
As you can see, to have a lunch break at near 2pm was the righteous thing to rather than visiting a famous museum in whole of Spain. Fresh looking slices of bread, some olives and a bottle of pineapple juice arrived before the main meal. Two plates of pescaito frito arrived with some salad decoration within less than three minutes. To my disappointment, this wasn't pesaito frito. The fish were overly covered in butter mixture and some of the fish I tasted were over fried.
We disappointingly left our table and decided not to try another pescaito frito!
Where is Pablo Picasso? We entered the museum with a group of Japanese tourists but somehow managed to skip the line. The Museo Picasso Málaga has 204 Picasso works, donated and lent by his family members. The Picasso paintings, drawings, engravings, sculptures and ceramics on show (many never previously on public display) span almost every phase and influence of the artist’s colourful career – blue period, cubism, surrealism and many more stuff. Don't judge my painting skills, after visiting this hotspot I honestly thought painting was easy.
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