Preventorio de Aguas de Busot

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The Aguas de Busot Spa is an architectural complex built in the 19th century in the municipality of Aigües, province of Alicante (Valencian Community). Originally designed, designed and titled "Hotel Miramar Winter Station", by its owner and promoter, Mr. Conde de Casa Rojas (and Marqués del Bosch), was conceived as an urban complex of large dimensions (some particular retains the plans of the original project), located opposite the old thermal springs that always existed in the area, presided by the central building corresponding to the hotel (equipped with roulette and the new English system of sanitary watertight or WC), and surrounded by numerous buildings and roads that crossed the adjacent places, including, among other services, two catholic chapels, a navigable pool, a bakery, a farm, multiple banks, roundabouts and other elements, most of which were erased in the 20th century. The nineteenth-century hotel activity was visited by SSMM the King and Queen of Spain, and was disseminated among potential customers through annual memorials that Mr. Conde commissioned to write to the various medical directors that the Hotel had (some copies are kept). The Civil War interrupted the hotel activity; and at the end of it, an attempt was made to promote an anti-tuberculosis infant sanatorium in the same facilities. The history of the spa is known with absolute chronological precision. Originally, the properties of the waters were already described in Roman and Muslim chronicles; In the 15th century, safe-conducts were granted to the Moriscos. From this time, the oldest known document is a privilege signed on November 30, 1596, giving ownership of the waters to the city of Alicante, which will hold it until 1816. The only building that is currently conserved was built in 1816 by the engineer and architect Pedro García Faria, while the Count of Casa Rojas embellished the adjacent lands with small houses away from the spa for those who did not want to be close to the bustle. Later, a conflict between the Public Administration and the family of Mr. Conde would begin, whom the Jurisdiction ended up recognizing as the legitimate owner. In 1865 the construction of the "Hotel Miramar" and a new spa took advantage of the thermal waters of the area. This hotel had a casino, party room, church, sports facilities and playground for children and its splendor lasted until 1930. It is said that the Marquis of Bosch, owner of the Hotel, lost it in a poker game. In 1936, the State acquired the building and converted it into an anti-tuberculosis hospital, targeting children with tuberculosis. After the Civil War (1936-1939) and when the disease was extinguished it was abandoned. Towards 1973, the National Antituberculous Patronato made a project to rehabilitate and expand the building, but it remained on paper. In 1989 the company Prognosis acquired the building with the intention of reforming it. In 1993 he signed an urban agreement with the Consistory to develop the construction project of two hotels and a spa. After a cascade of lawsuits between this company and the Town Hall of Aigües, the Spa was bought by Valentín Botella (President of Hercules CF) in 2006.