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Kiti Mánver's Malaga

2020-12-15T18:55:34.568Z


From her favorite viewpoint, overlooking the Gibralfaro castle, to a bookstore with a secret from the 13th century, fetish corners for the actress in her city


There are walks that are not forgotten.

Excursions in which to discover the environment based on affection, historical details and legends.

As in those in which Kiti Mánver participated in Malaga when she was very little.

The group was family, and the guide, his father.

Now he remembers them as if they were yesterday.

"He explained everything to us," recalls the actress, who travels with

El Viajero through

the historic center of Malaga to once again enjoy those places, where some of her favorites are to be found in the city.

During the walk he remembers, with fun, his first adolescent dates in the

orange blossom-scented gardens of Císter Street

or the days with his youth gang from

the Carranque neighborhood

.

Also the

malagas

—Local sweet wine — that she watered with her friends so as not to get too tipsy.

"We had such a good time," she says while still excited and in the footsteps of her father over time.

"Now I'm the one who, if I'm here, teach Malaga", explains the winner of the Biznaga de Oro at the last Malaga Film Festival for her role in

El inconveniente, a

film that is scheduled to premiere on December 18.

enlarge photo COVA FDEZ.

He was born in Antequera 67 years ago, but before his first birthday he was already living in Malaga.

At 6 he moved to Melilla and from there to Madrid, where he currently resides.

But Kiti Mánver throws her land away and whenever she can, she returns to the capital of the Costa del Sol to feel close to the sea again.

The malagueña is not defined as a great traveler, but she has traveled a thousand times to Spain for professional reasons during her theater tours or filming.

He says that he loves to arrive in advance, to get to the site, before going to work.

"I like to have everything under control: I rehearse even when I travel," he laughs.

He says that he inherited this planning from his father, who was enthusiastic about organizing each trip with his large family in detail: nine sons and daughters to whom he explained in advance each road, each mountain, each historical site they would pass through.

It is the same as he did on those routes where he taught his offspring to love Malaga while recounting the historical events that took place in every corner.

One of the ones that most marked Kiti Mánver is located next to the Malaga seminary, on

Mount Victoria

.

It is the place through which the Catholic Monarchs entered the city in August 1487 after their conquest after a long siege.

"The view back then has changed a lot, but it is still wonderful," says the interpreter while scanning the horizon.

Spirituality is noted in the silence between eucalyptus and carob trees.

The gardens of his childhood no longer exist, but the panorama maintains its two main protagonists: the

Gibralfaro castle

, protected by a green pine forest, and the cathedral, which began to rise in the sixteenth century and was never finished because it still lacks one of its towers.

The historic buildings compete for the limelight with the cranes in the port and the planes that slowly approach, tiny, towards the airport flying over the Mediterranean.

The panorama —without airships across the sky— was one of the favorites of lithographers who, especially in the 19th century, portrayed the capital of Malaga.

enlarge photo Corinthian helmet from the Tomb of the Warrior, exhibited at the Museum of Malaga.

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Better known is the painting

Fusilamiento de Torrijos and his companions on the beaches of Malaga

(1888), a work by Antonio Gisbert Pérez preserved in the Prado Museum.

The liberal politician was executed by the absolutist troops in 1831 due to his fight for freedoms and 11 years later, after the death of Fernando VII, an obelisk was erected in his honor in the

Plaza de la Merced

financed by the people.

"Before dying than consenting to tyrants," reads one of his inscriptions.

"The monument is one of the places that I especially like for its meaning and it is also very close to

Picasso's Birthplace

and the

Museum of Malaga

" (Plaza de la Aduana, s / n; +34 951 91 19 04), says Mánver.

Two archaeological treasures

In the archeology section of this cultural center are two of the objects that attract a lot to Malaga.

On one side, the helmet found in 2012 in the so-called

Tomb of the Warrior

that belongs to a Greek soldier who resided in the Phoenician Malaka.

On the other, the gold medallion - "beautiful" - found in the

Phoenician necropolis of Trayamar

, in the municipality of Algarrobo.

The actress, in fact, recommends approaching this site about 40 kilometers from the city to see it

in situ

.

"And since we go out to the province, we will also take a walk through the

Site of the Dolmens

, which is a world heritage site [since 2016] and is in Antequera," he says, winking at his hometown.

enlarge photo The actress Kiti Manver at the Proteo bookstore in Malaga.

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A countryman of his, Paco Puche, was the founder almost half a century ago of the

Proteo and Prometeo bookstores

(Puerta Buenaventura, 3 and 6).

“Like any cultural proposal, it is worthy of admiration.

Furthermore, from the beginning it was considered an anti-Franco bookstore where much work has been done for freedom ”, he says as he loses himself between pages and looks carefully at one of the secrets of the establishment: a 13th century tower belonging to the old Puerta of Buenaventura from the city walls, which they polished during the Proteo rehabilitation project in 2004. "Sometimes working for culture is like hitting against that wall," says the actress, who loves to lose herself for his Malaga.

"I live in Madrid, but I'm from Malaga," he underlines with the hope of remembering that childhood of family walks.

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Source: elparis

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