Coffee Break Spanish - CBS EM 1.08 | Málaga: Transformación Cultural

Episode Date: May 24, 2019

What springs to mind when you think of the city of Málaga? Until recently, it may have been the great weather and the beaches. But nowadays, the city has shaken off the dated image of ‘sol y playa���, and is establishing itself as one of Spain’s main cultural hubs. In this episode, through a series of interviews with local professionals, we hear about what led to this cultural transformation, and the opening of new museums and galleries across the city.This season of En Marcha con Coffee Break Spanish features 10 audio episodes, all of which will be included in the podcast feed. Just stay subscribed to the podcast to enjoy each episode. If you'd like to benefit from transcripts, bonus audio materials including our "Language Study" audio episodes which explain some of the language points introduced in the conversations, exercise packs, vocabulary lists and exclusive video materials, you can access the En Marcha online course in the Coffee Break Academy.Don't forget to follow Coffee Break Spanish on Facebook where we post language activities, cultural points and review materials to help you practise your Spanish. Remember - a few minutes a day can help you build your confidence in the language. Access the Coffee Break Spanish Facebook page here.If you'd like to find out what goes on behind the scenes here at Coffee Break Languages, and access regular language challenges, follow @coffeebreaklanguages on Instagram.For all information on Coffee Break Spanish, visit coffeebreaklanguages.com/spanish/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In Marcha with Coffee Brick Spanish, Season 1, Episode 8, and for this episode, we're heading straight to the Plaza de la Merced in Malaga. Well, here I'm with my friend Pamelo Picasso. Picasso was here in Malaga in 1881, and is a person very important for the city of Malaga. There is the museum of the Casas Natal, that is just the behind of us. There is where he was where he was.

And then there is the museum of Picasso. where there are many works of Picasso. In this episode, we're going to talk a little of the world artistic here in Malaga. It's a city very artistic. And we're going to talk about a little bit of this episode, and we'll enjoy, clear.

Our theme for this episode of EnMarcha is one of culture and the city of Malaga as a cultural hotspot. Now, if this happens to be the first ever lesson that you've listened to of Coffee Break Spanish, then you should know that we've got an entire series available

for absolute beginners right up to an advanced level. And in Marcha, we are in the south of Spain helping intermediate and advanced learners of Spanish improve your Spanish and build your listening skills. We're experiencing life as it's lived in the city of Malaga and its surroundings. One of the first people we heard from in our series of Enmarcha was Sarah, from the Ayuntamiento, who was speaking about tourism in the town. Now, we're going to go back to this interview and listen to a different part of it that we've not heard before. And that is about the fact that Malaga has grown, grown culturally over the past few years. Ultimately, in these last few years, we've given to Malaga an enfoque cultural.

And we've been abriending museums of different thematic. And in the actuality, we have some 36 museums different. and some of, let's, let's, let's be the Transcendency International, as can be the Centre Pompidou or the Museum Russo of St. Petersburg. So, there's something for all, no? Yes, the truth is that is. And then, during the year, is, continually, is celebrating events,

from first to final. I mean, always occurs something. Malaga is a city life, both for the day and for the night then we have the typical fairia of Malaga in mid-August we have the festival of

Spanish, we have the night of San Juan in June the marathon at a level also a lot of different things that also all the people who are going to participate so with 36 different museums and events that happen throughout

the year in different areas be that the marathon or the festival of Spanish cinema. There's lots going on in Malaga and many reasons for tourists and people interested in culture to come to visit the city. And do you know,

have been some changes in the tourism of Malaga during the last few decades? Well, yes, a lot, a lot of changes. Because Malaga has passed of the typical city of Passo, in the 80 and 90, was not conserved, the monuments

were abandoned. At the beginning of the years 2000, let's 2001, 2002, they started to rehabilitars all the edifices of the center, it was to patronalized the zone,

also, of the center, and they're going to care more the monuments, to illuminar those. It's, it's all the port, as in 2011, for the use

public and, well, they've also, started with the theme cultural, as you have commented before, to bring museums, to bring them, the enfoque

is a lot of not only the theme, climate, play, in a moment that, is that we're that we're

other things to visit, and the people have changed yeah the image that has been

to be the I'm also, and we're also, we're not we're not

we're not we're not we're final of the 90, I had four hotels, and the other were hostels. The people not, no, not dormia here. The people, came, if it was, and she'd go to the other cities where they'd.

And now, today, today, because cadaver is still augmenting more the number of hotels. We're just, hotelers. So, well, that's always an attractive, and also, we've been able, in other sense, in other sector, we've opened the Palace of Congresses.

The tourism of congresses and events is every augmenting more that, also, in the time more back of the city, attract much public. It's another part. And, yeah, for the ultimate, well, is the tourism

idiomatic. Well, Malaga also took, during the middle of the year, 2007, 2008, for that zone, took the best time,

and then, and then, for the crisis, started a to be a bit of students but ultimately we're going to

to capture more new public, we're doing many activities, much promotion, to try to try to position us, into what is Spain, as one of the cities, one of the cities, one of the cities

for more attractive for the tourism idiomatic. There was a huge amount in that interview with Sarah. So what we're going to do is listen to some parts of it again and I'd like you to try to identify certain things. First of all, I'd like you to identify how the city and when the city started to re-establish itself and prepare for attracting more tourism. So let's listen to the

first section again. There's a lot of much of Malaga has passed, of the typical city of Passo, in the 80 and 80 and 90, it was well-conservated, the monuments were a little abandoned.

At the beginning of the year, 2000, we're going to 2001, 2002, they started

to rehabilitars all the buildings of the city, the zone also of the

center, they've to look to more the monuments, to

illuminars, it, so the port, as from the 2011

for the public, and, well, they've also started with the theme cultural, as you've mentioned, to bring museums, to bring them, the enfoque is very different.

So, yeah, not only the theme, climate, play, in a moment a dado, is that also we're also, is that we're other things to visit,

and the people have changed now the image that has been to the Malaga had this image of sunshine and beach,

and not necessarily an image of a cultural city. But then, as Sarah explained, around the year 2000, they started rehabilitando. They started rehabilitating, preparing, making

ready the areas, different areas of the city. They started improving the monuments, taking more care of the monuments, also illuminating them, she said. And she also mentioned peatonalizar, which is the verb to pedestrianize. So they made the center of the city pedestrianized.

And in this way, Malaga began to take on a different image. for the tourists who were coming. Now, you'll remember that a couple of episodes ago, we spoke to Jose, the owner of a Spanish school in Malaga. Now, I asked Jose at the time if Malaga was the perfect destination for someone wanting to learn Spanish.

Let's have a listen to his answer. No is because I have a school here in the city, but I think firmlyly that today Malaga offers all the possibilities for an alumno that wants to study Spanish. It's a city very secure, is a city very well communicated. We're a climate

where here we say we have three primevaries and a verano and you can't enjoy during any any time of the year of this city. Culturally, it has a great deal of

a great of museums, of bars, in the level gastronomical. I think that Malaga today can't with

all the requisites for any student of any nationality that come to study to speak to speak so much in that one sentence just there at the end

when Jose said I think that Malaga today can't with all the requisite for any

student of any nationality that want to want to be to study Spanish so Malaga

nowadays today come with with all the requisite means to

fulfill all the requirements we've heard complete before. In fact, it's the word that is linked to cumplianos when you fulfill the number of years for your birthday. So, cumplier con to fulfill those requisitos, the requirements for any student

for any student, of any nationality, of any nationality, and then the interesting bit, that quira, who wants to, and we'll come back to that, to come to study Spanish. So let's go back to that, Kiera. Why is it Kiera? That's a subjunctive. Why do we need the subjunctive here?

Well, we're talking about whatever student, whichever student, or whichever nationality. And when you've got this idea of whatever or whichever, then you need the subjunctive, I will do whatever you want. I'm not just going to do what you're wanting me to do, but I'm going to do whatever you want. I do what you want to do what you want to do

using a subjunctive there going back there to Sarah's interview she mentioned a particular place a center of art the center of pompidou and we decided to find out a little more about this in actual fact flora my colleague from radio lingua has been doing some research

flora what did you find out about the the pompeidu center here in malaga I found out that it is a branch of the Centre Pompidou, which is a famous museum in Paris, a modern art museum, and this was the first branch opened outside of Paris.

They chose Malaga because the city had invested a lot of money into the arts over the past few decades. So the Centro Pompidou, Malaga, is just a result of that investment in culture. We're really pleased to be able to interview Jaime Menna, an art expert

who works very closely with the Pompidoumé Center. And since Flora has a keen interest in art herself, we decided that she would be the best person to do this interview. Yeah, I'm really looking forward to speaking to him and finding out more about art in Malaga. Flora began by asking Jaime to introduce the museum and its work. Yes, the Museum of the Centre Pompidu-Malaga is a project related to the Centre Pompidu-Paris. And our expositions are parts of the collections of Paris, that we're we're

we're we're we're we're going to we're a position so that's going to

these years this year? Yes, just this year to change a change every two years

and we we've changed all, we've seen an exposition and now there's a new

about the utopias that will be very interesting. Yes, very well and there

there a work in particular in the museum that the people come to see. There's a work that is very a lot of people who are much people who are a little bit of a little of the great starys of our collection. We began the episode talking about Pablo Picasso,

one of Malaga's most famous sons Flora went on to ask Jaime about Picasso's work in the museum. There's a work in the museum. There's a book of Picasso here in the Museum Pompidu? Yes, in concrete, we have two pieces, that are different

epochs of Picasso and that are important for the rest of the works that are around the different salas. Very well. And for the fans of Picasso, there also more in the city?

Yes, the fact, is the house where it was the foundation Picasso, Casa Natal, and it's a space where you can see a little, his first

years, and even even you can be in a place where he was in

the Place of the Merce that was a place. We've

seen that Malaga has changed much as a city

in the last decades and have invested much in

the arts and the culture how has changed with

respect to the city Almost we could say that totally is a city that now has been a center artistic, not only because we have museums with works and expositions temporales, but there are many artists,

Spanish, that are coming to Malaga to work to be to interactioning between them and with the works that we have in the museums. Well, for the people that want to come to see the museum, where is situated in the city of Malaga? in the center in a place very beautiful, which is a a place with a porto

and it's also a zone commercial and it's one of the other things more more than the other side we have a great avenue very very so it's a plenocentro of the city and at the side. And if

our audience want to know more about the museum, where can't go to find this information? Well, a channel basic is internet Facebook is a platform where we're an platform where

we're doing the information we're doing what we're Twitter and Instagram also have that character more cotidiano and temporal transmitting even

in time real actions and well the page web also is a good place to obtain information and come to Maraga also can be a option

and the page web is Centre Pompil G. Malaga. . I'm I

live without me and I'm without the morning in my time

while the the car tomorrow to say that I'm

for a say that is a thing After a day no No After a day of finding out about the transformation of Malaga And visiting the modern Marina area

Madyuno, it was time for something to eat And we decided to head somewhere a little more authentic. El Pimpi, which is tucked inside an 18th century Malaga mansion house, is one of the longest standing bodega bars in Malaga. The name El Pimpi, as you'll hear in this interview, refers to Malagas first tour guides, or Pimpis, the Malaguenos who used to meet passengers and crew from the ships that arrived in the city and show them around. Although the city of Malaga has undergone many changes, traditional bodegas such as this one are still bustling with people. locals and tourists alike every night of the week.

One of the first places I come to when I arrive in Malaga is El Pimpi for some fantastic food. And I am here with the manager of El Pimpi. Good afternoon. Very good tardes. I'm Pablo Gonzalo, gerente of the Bodega El Pimpi. For our students,

that are all the parts of the world, can you know, what is El Pimpi? Well, the Pimpi is a bodega typical Malaga, typical Andalusa. with much content cultural, traditions popular,

like the flamenco, the culture of the dayary of the city Malague and that is that is in the photographs that's in the

bodega with flamenco, personality of the culture, of the art, the political, well, it's a point

of encounter of all the Malagueans and visitants that are to the city to know

a little more of some the customs and traditions. Very well. And the restaurant has how many years?

The restaurant is of the year 71. What type of food is food malaguena? There's a lot of products about all the gastronomia malagena with products in which we potencounciles the production malagena

and the vines also of our country, the vines of Malaga. And what are the plato most popular? One of them is the hamon Iberic of Bejouc and the Pescatatio Frito of Malaga,

which is a plate of stregia of here, of the house, and of Malaga in general. Where did the name, the Pimpi? The Pimpi consists of part of the first guides touristicos that took the city, at the principle of the tourism when they'd becars to Purtes

and there was a figure, that personage, a pintorgesco, typical of Malaga, that's the denomino, Pimpi. Ah, I'm into, I've seen many photos

in the restaurant of people famous. Can you give some example of those

the client known that have comeed here? From Antonio Banderas

Carmen Tisen, the reina mother of Bhutan, Pablo Al Boran Tony Blair,

a multitude personality of the country, the football, of the politics, I think

that many can't for pass for these parres. Well, much

thanks. To you. So this interview wrapped up the day of recording

and It also wraps up this episode and it gives you an excellent taste of what is to come literally because in the next episode we are going to be going on a tapas tour around the city of Malaga but you'll have to wait until episode nine for that. For now, much thanks.

Como always. And until la proxima. You have been listening to a production of the Coffee Break Academy for the Radio Linguar Network Copyright 2019 Radio Lingual Limited Recording Copyright 2019 Radio Lingual Limited all rates reserved.