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Catedral de Santa Maria
Murcia's sumptuous cathedral was raised in 1394 on the site of a mosque. Initially Gothic in style, it was dramatically altered in 1748, when the exuberant baroque facade with its tumbling cherubs was added. A highlight of the interior is the 15th-century flamboyant Gothic Capilla de los Vélez, its flutes and curls like piped icing sugar.
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Cathedral de Santa María
Murcia's sumptuous Cathedral de Santa María was raised in 1394 on the site of a mosque. Initially Gothic in style, it was dramatically altered in 1748, when the exuberant baroque façade with its tumbling cherubs was added. A highlight of the interior is the 15th-century Flamboyant Gothic Capilla de los Vélez, its flutes and curls like piped icing sugar. The fat 92m tower, begun in 1519, took 270 years to be completed.
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City Hall
Rafael Moneo's extension to Murcia city's 19th-century city hall has been the subject of hot debate. Looking something like an empty book-case, it either lets a much-needed breath of air into the heavily elaborate square or defaces it: you be the judge.
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Gran Casino Murcia
Murcia's resplendent casino first opened as a gentlemen's club in 1847. Beyond the decorative facade, completed in 1901, are an Arab-style vestibule and a patio. Penetrate as far as the magnificent ballroom and pop €1.00 in the slot for the 320 lamps of its candelabra to shimmer with light as Strauss's Radetsky March wafts from all corners.
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Museo de Bellas Artes
Museo de Bellas Artes, recently reopened after major renovations, is a bright, well-documented gallery. Devoted to Spanish artists, its 1st-floor Siglo de Oro gallery, with canvases by Murillo and Ribera, is the highlight.
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Museo de la Ciencia y del Agua
Museo de la Ciencia y del Agua, also beside the river (and best approached on foot along the riverside walk from Puente Viejo), is one for the children. Although everything's in Spanish, this small hands-on science museum has plenty of buttons to press and knobs to twirl and a small planetarium, too.
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Museo de la Ciudad
Housed in the villa of a prominent Murcia family of the 16th century, the City Museum diligently records the history of the city and region, with a particular emphasis on the region's art, crafts and ethnography. To the rear of the building is an orchard dating back to Muslim times, watered by the Caravija aqueduct.
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Museo de Santa Clara
Museo de Santa Clara is a recently restored Muslim palace. It has an exquisite courtyard and an important collection of Islamic art within a closed-order convent with its own rich treasures, assembled over the centuries. Phone to reserve a 45-minute guided tour in English.
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Museo Hidráulico
Giant grindstones and delicate working models are the permanent features of Museo Hidráulico, a restored water mill that's also used for temporary exhibitions.
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Museo Salzillo
Museo Salzillo, devoted to the Murcian sculptor Francisco Salzillo (1707-83), is in the baroque chapel of Ermita de Jesús. It displays his impressive pasos (figures carried in Semana Santa processions) and his superb miniature Nativity figures carved in wood.
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