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, originally a customs house for the Port of Málaga.Palacio de la Aduana
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Customs Palace
malagaturismo.com (official tourism site of the City of Málaga). Accessed online 2010-01-19. The building was proposed by

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in 1787 and approved by

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. Work began in 1791 under the direction of administrador general of Customs Pedro Ortega Monroy and architects Miguel del Castillo and Ildefonso Valcárcel, who designed the principal façade and floor plans. Work was still under way in 1810 when the building was sacked during the occupation of Málaga by

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; after the war, damage was repaired and construction continued. Architect Pedro Nolasco Ventura made various modifications to the plans, and the building was completed in 1829. Susana Hermoso-Espinosa García
Recorrido histórico por el Palacio de la Aduana de Málaga
SUMA (sumagestion.com), 2004-10-10. Accessed online 2010-01-19. The Neoclassical building was modeled on

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'' that is

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ed for the lower two floors; then set back on the third floor, where there is an open gallery with an

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functioning as a

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; between sections of the parapet are

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busts atop low walls. The building has bossed exterior walls;Málaga
, malagayturismo.eu. Accessed online 2010-01-19. towering palm trees that flank the main façade. Originally a customs house, it later served in the later 19th century as the Real Fábrica de Tabaco (Royal Tobacco Factory), as the seat of the city government,Las Primeras Sedes
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beginning in the Franco era, and was later used also by the Policía Nacional. As of 2004, it was being used by the Subdelegation, and the Policía Nacional, and to store the collection of the Fine Arts section of the Museo de Málaga, which lost its previous site in the Buenavista Palace when that was taken over by the

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s. The museum is projected to open in 2013.Alfonso Vázquez
El palacio de la Aduana ya tiene su propio perfil ´museístico´
''La Opinión de Málaga'', 2009-07-27. Accessed online 2010-01-19.

Notes

References

*Mª Eugenia Candau, José Ignacio Díaz Pardo, Francisco Rodríguez Marín: ''Málaga Guía de Arquitectura.'' Ed. bilingüe ª Ed.- Sevilla: Consejería de Obras Públicas y Transportes, Málaga - Colegio de Arquitectos, 2005

External links

* Rafael Puertas Tricas
El Uso Museístico del Palacio de la Aduana
Revista Jábega (Centro de Ediciones de la Diputación de Málaga), Number 92, 2002, 5:13. A study of the suitability of the Palacio de la Aduana for a museum; includes floor diagrams and breakdowns of floor space surface area. {{DEFAULTSORT:Palacio de la Aduana (Malaga) Aduana, Malaga Neoclassical architecture in Spain Government buildings completed in 1829 Buildings and structures in Málaga