This monument is one of the most touching sculptures that are found in the city. In 1997, Miguel Angel Blanco, a deputy of the Popular Party for Ermua, in Vizcaya, was murdered in cold blood by the terrorist group ETA, after having been kidnapped two days before. This produced a popular movement like never before to demand his liberation, but it was finally assassinated. Monuments and events were created throughout Spain and, in Alicante, coinciding with World Peace Day, in 2005, this mobile sculpture was created. It is the work of sculptor David Angelini, representing a large cage and inside, a pigeon, which turns on its axis trying to free itself from its captivity, turning at 14 revolutions per minute. You can find it on Gran Vía de Alicante, between Calle Sidi Ifni and Avenida Sanchís Candela with Calle Alonso Cano.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It is a square tower of five by five meters on each side and twelve meters high, dating from the sixteenth century.The name comes from Botero, in Castilian, someone who manufactures boots. The towe was built with ashlars and masonry, with a door that rises almost two meters from the ground and holes in the walls at the height of each floor. It keeps its helical staircase that leads to each of its four floors (plus the ground floor). You will find it in the Camino del Benimagrell, number 33. There is a bike route to visit all emblematic towers in the city of Alicante.
At the end of March 1939, thousands of Republicans chose exile in the port of Alicante when they embarked on the Stanbrook and other vessels, thus escaping the impending repression. Many more, around fiteen thousand, were captured by the Italian fascist troops and interned in different places around the city. That is the way the Spanish Civil War ended and how the dictatorship began.
The sculpture "La Mariposa" was part of the exhibition of Manolo Valdés in the City of Arts and Sciences of Valencia and in the Place Vendôme in Paris. "La Mariposa" is an example of Valdés' way of working because it has its origin in an image he saw in New York's Central Park of a butterfly fluttering over a woman's head. Valdés took that image to his particular style based on dialogue with the history of art (the face of sculpture is based on Matisse's painting) and the appropriation of objects from everyday life.
With the passage of time, rainwater tanks have stopped being used, so those who remain standing begin to be a symbol and a memory that must be preserved. This deposit in the north of Alicante is a reference in the area and is admired by the people who live and pass by there.
Cutting head of the tunnel boring machine used for the construction of the splitting of the general collector. In memory of the works for the defense against floods of the city of Alicante, carried out by the Department of Public Works, Urban Planning and Transport, which were inaugurated in July 2001.
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