It is rated as one of the best exhibitions in Spain to discover this Christmas and it is in this museum in Malaga.

Although it is true that Christmas is a time for light shows, Christmas markets, children's theater, or some activity related to the winter season, there is also a place for museums and some of the temporary exhibitions that especially fill those in Málaga. Among them, it appears that one is gaining national prominence, enough to be included among the 'exhibitions in Spain to discover this Christmas' highlighted by Traveler, featuring one from the capital of Málaga, from one of its many museums.

We are talking about the exhibition Hidden Spain, by Cristina García Rodero, which is in its final days at the Centro Cultural La Malagueta, active since the end of last September and will be available until next Sunday, January 12. Traveler explains that it is thanks to the "thousands of hours of work that the Herculean task of Hidden Spain was achieved, a photographic collection by the renowned photographer Cristina García Rodero that was published as a book in 1989 and can now be visited in Málaga".

They say of the exhibition, highlighted along with almost twenty other exhibitions in museums in León, Valladolid, Sevilla, Bilbao, and mostly Madrid, that it is "a journey that began in late 1973 and traverses the most remote, and also the most forgotten, Spain, through the lens of one of our country's most distinguished photographers".

It was thanks to a scholarship, back in the early 70s, that Cristina García Rodero was able to work on that book which today shapes this photographic exhibition about "a time when any connection to tradition was deemed reactionary, a waste of time and, even worse, a look at a past that was still present and pained the guts of a silenced people," according to the Centro Cultural La Malagueta, which makes a stop in Málaga thirty-five years after its publication.

"I have tried to photograph the mysterious, real, and magical soul of popular Spain, with love and humor, with passion and tenderness, with anger and pain, with truth, the most intense and lively moments of people as simple as they are irresistible, with all their inner strength, in a personal challenge that has given me energy and understanding and in which I have put my heart," states the author of this exhibition that is rated as one of the best in Spain.

The exhibitions in Spain that Traveler recommends for Christmas

• 'Don Quixote', by Ai Weiwei (MUSAC, León)
• 'The new art of making images' (Valladolid Cathedral)
• 'Columbus Letters: America at the House of Alba' (Palacio de Liria, Madrid)
• 'Gabriele Münter. The great expressionist painter' (Thyssen Bornemisza, Madrid)
• 'Irving Pen: Centennial' (MOP Foundation, A Coruña)
• 'Eveli Torent. Between Els Quatre Gats and Freemasonry' (National Art Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona)
• 'José María García de Paredes. Spaces of Encounter' (ICO Foundation, Madrid)
• 'Rubens' Workshop' (Prado Museum, Madrid)
• '31 Women: An Exhibition by Peggy Guggenheim' (Mapfre Foundation, Madrid)
• 'The Worlds of Alice' (CaixaForum, Barcelona)
• 'Seventy Great Masters from the Pérez Simón Collection' (CentroCentro, Madrid)
• '20th Century Spanish Art. From Picasso to Barceló' (María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation, Madrid)
• 'The Berlin Wall. A Divided World' (Canal Foundation, Madrid)
• 'Feedback' (Santa Clara Space, Sevilla)
• 'Hidden Spain' (Centro Cultural La Malagueta, Málaga)
• 'Diversity in the CAAC Collection. The Photographic Gaze of Alberto García-Alix' (CAAC, Sevilla)
• 'Hilma af Klint' (Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao)
• 'Saul Steinberg' (Juan March Foundation, Madrid)
• 'Refracted Nature' (Magalhães & Santos Gallery, Madrid)