Visits to the Nao Santa María, in the Port of Málaga until January 25

The Nao Santa María will be in Málaga after Christmas. The replica of the famous ship of Christopher Columbus will visit the city for the first time after ... its great European tour this year. It will be docked at Pier 1, IGY Málaga Marina from January 9 to 25, during which time it can be visited.

The visiting hours will be from 10 AM to 6:30 PM. Tickets cost 8 euros for adults, 4 euros for children, and there are family packs available for 20 euros.

The Santa María made the voyage that has been marked as one of the most impressive transformative works of humanity: the Discovery of America, the encounter between two worlds, which changed the course of universal history.

This full-scale replica was built by the Nao Victoria Foundation in Punta Umbría (Huelva), with the support of the Provincial Council of Huelva and the Cajasol Foundation, over fourteen months of work, which began in January 2017 and concluded in March 2018. Its construction took place in the Varaderos Palmás shipyards of Punta Umbría and involved nearly a hundred professionals from various disciplines: shipwrights, net makers, ropemakers, and other maritime craftsmen, along with historians and engineers, who worked on the planning of the initial plans of the replica, and the design of the ship's shapes and measurements.

After fourteen months of intense work, the nao Santa María was launched on March 16, 2018. A ship of 200 tons, with a maximum length of 28.30 meters, a beam of 7.96 meters, and a depth of 3.49 meters. Like the original, this replica incorporates three masts, the main, mizzen, and foremast, and a bowsprit, with the height of the main mast being almost 25 meters from the waterline to the topmost part. It hoists five sails with a total area of 303 m2, and the standing and running rigging is composed of about three kilometers of ropes.