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    Malaga, Spain

    Malaga was the birthplace of Pablo Picasso and is home to one of the world’s major Picasso museums, which features a collection of 235 pieces donated by the artist’s family. The Picasso Museum is located in a 16th-century building only a few blocks away from the house where the artist was born. A must see is also the Alcazaba (pictured): a gargantuan Moorish fortress and palace, dating back to the 11th Century, which was famously seized by Ferdinand and Isabella in the 15th Century. The fortress houses an archaeological museum with Roman-era mosaics and Arab ceramics. Right beside it sits the ruins of a 2nd-century Roman amphitheatre, which were discovered in the 1950s. (Cayetano)

Malaga, Spain

Malaga was the birthplace of Pablo Picasso and is home to one of the world’s major Picasso museums, which features a collection of 235 pieces donated by the artist’s family. The Picasso Museum is located in a 16th-century building only a few blocks away from the house where the artist was born. A must see is also the Alcazaba (pictured): a gargantuan Moorish fortress and palace, dating back to the 11th Century, which was famously seized by Ferdinand and Isabella in the 15th Century. The fortress houses an archaeological museum with Roman-era mosaics and Arab ceramics. Right beside it sits the ruins of a 2nd-century Roman amphitheatre, which were discovered in the 1950s. (Cayetano)

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