The nao Santa María can be visited in Málaga in January

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 extensive European tour this year. It will be moored at Pier 1, IGY Málaga Marina from January 9 to 25, during which time it can be visited.

The visiting hours will be from 10:00 AM to 6:30 PM. Tickets are priced at 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 support from the Provincial Council of Huelva and the Cajasol Foundation, over fourteen months of work starting in January 2017 and ending in March 2018. Its construction took place at the Varaderos Palmás shipyard in Punta Umbría and involved nearly a hundred professionals from various disciplines: shipwrights, net makers, ropemakers, and other maritime artisans, along with historians and engineers, who worked on the planning of the initial blueprints of the replica, and the design of the ship's shapes and dimensions.

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, main, mizzen, foremast, and a bowsprit, with the height of the main mast being almost 25 meters from the waterline to the top. It boasts five sails with a total area of 303 m², and the standing and running rigging is composed of about three kilometers of ropes.