Is located at the foot of the castle and was built to commemorate the spot where the old hermitage of Saint George was set. It was devoted to Saint George, but today it no longer exists. It was the oldest hermitage in Banyeres, as it can be inferred by taking into account its location, so its construction may very well date back to between the 13th and the 15th centuries. There are only a few remains: one of its corners. According to photographic evidence it can be assured that by the end of the 19th century or in the early 20th it was still standing. This hermitage was also known as the one of El Conjurador because of the ability that the Saint had to conjure storms and evils before the pleas of the people gathered around his image. The current monument is located in a viewpoint overlooking the mountain and it allows the visitor to admire the natural environment that surrounds the town.
It is a tower of two heights, made with masonry and attached to a house with the same name, located in the central area of the garden of the Partida de la Condomina.
Miguel Hernández was a renowned playwright and poet who lived in Spain at the beginning of the 20th century. He was born in Orihuela in 1910 and, despite being imprisoned by the national side (Spanish Civil War) and died due to tuberculosis in 1942, with only 31 years, left a great legacy of poems and plays. In Pardo Gimeno street, where the monument now stands, was the infirmary of the jail where he died, and today, since 1998, the monument to this great poet stands out in the Benalúa neighborhood. Furthermore, near the monument, there is a street dedicated to his memory.
Access to two of the urban paths of the city of Alicante, ascent to Mount Benacantil or the Parque de la Ereta, one hour and one and a half hours long, respectively. If you choose the Ereta, you can walk on the wall of Santa Bárbara Castle, a highly recommended experience.
In 1982, the World Cup took place in Spain, one of the venues was Alicante, and coinciding with that World Cup, a monument dedicated to golden proportions was inaugurated, an icosahedron by Juan S. Pérez i Parra's and José L. Frías Wamra's architecture studio, who worked in collaboration with the engineer Florentino Regalado. The icosahedron has twenty faces and resembles a soccer ball shaped like a truncated icosahedron. This means that each vertex is truncated and replaced by pentagons. Thus, the soccer ball is not a sphere but composed of polygons like this icosahedron which is made of triangles. This sculpture is based on the works of architect Richard Buckminster, famous for his works based on nature and its perfect proportions. Hence the allusive name of this monument to the golden proportions. After several renovations, it has finally found its place on a roundabout, in front of the Plaza Mar 2 shopping center, on Avenida de Denia.
The Millennium Gate was designed by sculptor Eduardo Lastres. It is part of a series of four contemporary structures of various modern Spanish artists located along the Gran Vía de Alicante to commemorate the new millennium. It is a great figure in the shape of a door, supported by concrete columns and several steel figures that crown the sculpture on top.
Between the Rodolfo Salazar Journalist Avenue and the Doctor Vicente Reyes Street, is the roundabout that gives place to the Memorial Monument of the Inauguration of the Boulevard del Pla. It has a stop of the tram line of Alicante (Tram Alicante) about 150 meters away (Parada de Bulevar del Pla).
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