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Acosta
José María Acosta y Tovar belonged to one of the families of Jaén with most noble ancestry. Born in 1881, he studied at our Institute and at the Academy of Engineers in Guadalajara. He obtained several literary awards from journals in Madrid and wrote several novels.
2 processions will march along this street in Holy Week See info |
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Alcalde Muñoz
Previously called Carrera de Santa Rita, where the hermitage of San Lázaro stood. The hermitage was the provisional seat of the parish of San Sebastián. The street opens out at the end, where the popular bar-hotel Parador de Martínez once stood, a hostel for bathers of the 1920s. The street corresponds to the bourgeois urban development of the 19th century.
4 processions will march along this street in Holy Week See info |
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Alhamilla
Named after the mountain range belonging to a geographical division of the Baetic ranges, near to the coast. It extends across the municipalities of Almería, Lucainena de las Torres, Níjar, Pechina, Rioja and Tabernas, covering approximately 8500 hectares.
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Almedina
An important street during the Muslim period, starting from the village of Pechina and leading to the city gate of the same name (nowadays called Puerta de Purchena), the main gate of the city. The gate of La Imagen was at the entrance of Calle de la Almedina and was the main gate of the caliph’s medina. The Christians called it “of the image” because of an image that was worshiped in a nearby hermitage, the object of devotion until the 19th century. The medina was home to a large part of the Muslim population when the Catholic Monarchs entered the city. It was protected by the wall of the street Calle de la Reina. When the upper part became depopulated after the Reconquest, queen Isabel ordered that the Jews be settled there; and so two neighbourhoods were formed at the foot of the citadel, the Moorish quarter and the Jewish quarter. After the expulsion of the Moors and Jews in the 17th century, the area remained almost unpopulated, being used for market gardening and being given the name of La Almedina. It began to see repopulation with the installation of 140 families towards the end of the following century.
A procession will march along this street in Holy Week See info |
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Alta de la Iglesia
Peripheral to the parish church of San Isidro, built after 1945, alongside its homonym, Baja de la Iglesia.
2 processions will march along this street in Holy Week See info |
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Altamira
This street is named after the famous Altamira cave, located in Santilla del Mar, Cantabria. The cave is famous for its paintings from the Solutrean and Magdalenean periods of the High Paleolithic. The artistic style falls within the Franco-Cantabrian school, characterized by the realism of the figures represented.
A procession will march along this street in Holy Week See info |
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Alvarez de Castro
The fort of La Santísima Trinidad stood in this street during the 16th century, when the walls nearest the sea lost their importance with the withdrawal of the city and fort- bastions were established to defend the population. The street is dedicated to Mariano Álvarez de Castro (1749-1810), military governor of Gerona during the French siege of the War of Independence.
3 processions will march along this street in Holy Week See info |
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Angel Jover
This street gave access to the now vanished bath house Diana, inaugurated in 1859. It had hot baths, an ample lounge and a good beach-side location. It attracted many bathers and holidaymakers. The gasworks was next to the establishment.
A procession will march along this street in Holy Week See info |
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Antonio Gonzalez Egea
The street is dedicated to Antonio González Egea, powerful grape exporter and banker, who was also the mayor of Almería. He built the Casa Vasca (Basque house)of the Plaza Circular in 1933. González Egea inherited from his father, José González Canet, the senator and old owner of the bullring and Apolo theatre. The family built up properties over the centuries, amongst which were the holdings that make up the now Natural Park of Cabo de Gata. These lands were mainly for the production of esparto grass.
2 processions will march along this street in Holy Week See info |
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Argollones
This street preserves the name of the place that was once here. To be correct, the name should be written “Albollones” or “Arbollones”, the word for a drainage pipe or channel of a pool.
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Arraez
From this street to the Jairán wall is the area known as the Hoya de San Cristóbal, this neighbourhood being built in the first half of the 19th century. Arraéz was the Arab word for the captain or owner of a ship. This street is named after an ex-resident: Don Francisco Arráez, lieutenant colonel of the regiment of Provincial Militia of Guadix, killed in 1809 at the battle of Medellín.
3 processions will march along this street in Holy Week See info |
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Artes de Arcos
A street named in memory of José Artés de Arcos (1893-1985), born in Almería to a humble family and whose eagerness to work and thirst for knowledge made him into an important businessman with over 500 patents to his name.
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Avenida Cabo de Gata
Formerly known as Rodrigo Vivar Téllez, after a governor of Almería; later to be named after the cape of Almería, the location of the Natural Park and UNESCO biosphere reserve of the same name. In the 1940s, an ample building area began to develop around this street, near to the city’s eastern beach. The project, the development of the neighbourhood of Ciudad Jardín, involved 90000 m² and was the largest urban development of the time. A timid attempt at private urban development, the “Ciudad Jardín Reina Cristina” designed by José González Edo, with the intention of raising six houses. However, the push towards expansion of the city gathered momentum and the municipal architect Guillermo Langle Rubio drew up the general plan and built 245 houses on nine hectares, set around two squares and several streets. Public service buildings, market, school and church, were all included. The development was extended by the building of 178 more houses, with the participation of Antonio Vallejo and Fernando Dampierre. The houses, of rationalist style with pure spaces, were destined for the middle class. The church reflects a sober historicism and the school, Lope de Vega, uses modern establishments.
2 processions will march along this street in Holy Week See info |
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Avenida de la Estacion
First it was called Avenida de la Estación and Avenida de Eguilior, then it became Avenida de Calvo Sotelo, and today it is simply Avenida de la Estación.
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Avenida de Vilchez
Dedicated to Felipe de Vilches y Gómez, president of the society that built the bullring. The Vilches family go back to Pedro de Vilches, the celebrated captain “peg-leg” of the war against the Moors, who settled in the city.
4 processions will march along this street in Holy Week See info |
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Avenida Federico Garcia Lorca
This is the current axis of the city, the old boulevard. The layout of this road, designed between 1993 and 1995, was the result of a national competition of the 1980s. It has become an integral part of the city and could be described as the backbone of Almería. It is notable in its integration of the sea along its final stretch, the placement of underground parking at the points of greatest necessity, the use of water as an element alongside green areas and recreational areas, the conservation of the meaning that a boulevard has to its urban setting, and in the textual treatment of streetlamps and benches. This avenue was dedicated to Gonzales Callejón of the Security Corps. It is currently dedicated to Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), Spanish poet and dramatist. A member of the “generation of 27”, he is the most popular and influential poet in 20th century Spanish literature. As a dramatist, he is considered as the peak of 20th century Spanish theatre, alongside Valle-Inclán and Buero Vallejo. He was executed following the military coup because of his connections with the Popular Front and for being a self-confessed homosexual.
7 processions will march along this street in Holy Week See info |
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Avenida Pablo Iglesias
Dedicated to Pablo Iglesias Posse (1850-1925), the founder of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) and the General Workers Union (UGT).
7 processions will march along this street in Holy Week See info |
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Avenida Reina Regente
Constitutes the final stretch of the urban development of the Rambla and the connection of the city and the sea. Dedicated to Queen Regent María Cristina Habsburg, mother of Alfonso XIII. After the floods of 1891, she led a national subscription that allowed the city to pay for the building of the boulevards.
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