Adjacent to the Wagner Theater is the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium. It is an outdoor venue, with a 400 m2 stage and a capacity for 1,000 seated people, being the place chosen for the celebration of numerous events. It was inaugurated in 1998 by the tenor Alfredo Kraus, adopted son of the village of Aspe. Of its architecture highlights its white lintel arch, as well as a sculpture in tribute to a street dog much loved in Aspe, called "Tarzan".
In the 17th century, this building was built for the Consistorial House to direct the public life of Aspe, next to the Palace House of the Dukes of Maqueda and Marquis of Elche, who financed the work. The building, of Baroque style, is perfectly integrated into the urban fabric. It has a rectangular floor plan and its façade, made with sandstone ashlar, we can see its distribution on three floors: - Ground floor, which is accessed through a large portico formed by three arches. This space was used to carry out commercial transactions, hire day laborers, hold auctions and the market. Currently, this space is used to plant the nativity scene that every year the Association of Aspen Belenistas performs, an authentic artisan jewel made, year after year, by the members of that association. Of this plant highlights the lintel access door where we find as the main decorative motif, the shield of the town of Aspe. - First floor, where three large forge balconies are located, whose openings are framed with pilasters that are finished off with a thick ledge incurved in the center as a pediment, where plates of mixed profile are arranged on the lateral pediments, and a shield -cartela in the center. - Second floor, which has a gallery of square windows. The building is finished off with a small tower where the clock is placed and on it we find a bell. The latest reforms will take place in the XX, highlighting the expansion of the new City Council. For the construction of this new building the aesthetics of the historic were followed, using ashlars, arches, although in this case lintelled, and the clock tower was reformed using the same ashlars and following the same aesthetic. BIBLIOGRAPHIC AND DOCUMENTARY DATA: VV.AA.1998 Aspe. Physical environment and human aspects. City Council of Aspe
This important site, declared an Asset of Cultural Interest, was found in the process of opening Castillo Street, which was planned in this place and was rejected before the discovery. The Aljau Castle would be one of the fortifications of the town of Aspe el Nuevo, a site located on the plain in the second half of the 13th century, after forcing the abandonment of the Castillo del Río, known as Aspe el Viejo. For a time, the two urban centers survived as demonstrated by a privilege granted by Alfonso X El Sabio to Alicante, dated 1252, in which "Azpe el Viejo" and "Azpe el Nuevo" are repeatedly mentioned. The remains could be defined as a fortification Aragon plant, or quadrangular with towers in the corners, and central courtyard. The access, of which there are remains, seems to be organized with a corridor in a bend protected by a circular border that enables a corridor that surrounds the floor of the patio, without knowing where it ends. Without being discovered the end of the system, resembles the access of the main domus of the Castle of Castile, also dated in the middle of the XIV century. Next to this fortification the remains of a house with several rooms where the home and a jar embedded in the pavement have been documented. Although the state of conservation of these last remains is low, the structures that separate the rooms and the access door to it are distinguished. This house shows a somewhat later chronology, centered on the fifteenth century, which may correspond to an area of extra-urban outskirts, located on the edge of the castle to guarantee its protection.
Original building of 1922 that was acquired by the City Council in the early eighties, when it was practically doomed to his disappearance. After several years of rehabilitation work, it was inaugurated on February 16, 1995. Since its inception, it has been distinguished by the diversity of activities carried out in it, with a program designed to meet the cultural demands of the citizens of Aspe. The interior has been completely reconstructed, but it respects the three own bodies that we find in all the theaters: lobby, hall and scene. It has a capacity of 550 seats distributed in 290 of patio, 63 of boxes and 197 of amphitheater. The theater lobby is equipped to host exhibitions.
At the entrance to the Parque de L´Aigüera a very different monument greets visitors: The new Town Hall, colloquially known as the ‘floorscraper’. The unique structure has aroused the interest of many architects and a lot of people come to visit it. The building is like a bridge which acts as a doorway to the green zone ‘L´Aigüera’ park. It juts out horizontally and you can walk underneath it. This 'horizontal skyscraper' is supported by four pillars. The glass façade is covered with thick slats with the names and surnames of the over 60,000 inhabitants of Benidorm from the year when its construction was finished.
The ancestral home of the Rovira family (17th & 18th Centuries). The family crest is to be found on the façade on the top floor. The crown was removed from this crest during the Second Republic. The Rovira family originally procedes from Catalonia and came to the Kingdom of Valencia towards the end of the 12th century. There are records of this family in Xixona going back to 1421. Throughout modern times family members have been leaders in local civic life. However, some of the more exalted members of the family moved to the neighbouring town of Alicante. With the passing of time some of those in the family who resided in Xixona adapted to the changing times and became active in the growing cottage industry, turrón (nougat) making. At the end of the 19th century several companies had been created and were destined to play a major role in the economy of the town at the beginning of the twentieth century.
This baker’s attests to the importance of bread as a staple in the time when it was constructed. It is of Arab origin and medieval characteristics documented as far back as the beginning of the 16th century. It is said to be one of the oldest in all of the Valencian Community and is a true architectural gem. Nowadays it is still fully functioning. It is well-known for its typical Jijona buns such as tonyetes (almond, flour and cinnamon), doblades which are only made for All Saints’ Day, cupcakes (madalenas) and tortadas (almond tortes) as well as a long list of other puddings and sweet dishes. The local bakers and confectioners make buns, sweets and other delicacies for all the visitors who would like to try the traditional Jijona confectionary.
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".
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 built at the beginning of the 16th century, located at one of the entries to the town. This tower has undergone many variations in its structure, especially from the middle of the 19th century, when it was integrated as a part of a two-storey house. It is unknown which family it belongs to, but we know that the building is characterized as a country building of low nobility rank, possibly typical of a knight and associated to agricultural properties and to the means of communication between Bocairent and Banyeres. It is a square building with an approximate height of 18 m. It was built with externally uncoated masonry walls. The corners, cornices and lintels of holes and arches are made of ashlar masonry.
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