It is installed in a stately building built in 1857. It has the uniqueness of having some curious arcades in the ground with a corridor that serves the small square "dels Portxins".
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).
In 2001, this monument was erected to celebrate the day of the armed forces. It represents the three forces of the army of land, sea and air. It is located in the emblematic Puerta del Mar Square in Alicante, in an area with many monuments and one the most touristic ones, with the marina, the casino, the Explanada of Spain (promenade) or the Carbonell building near the monument.
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