The Guide to Holy Week in Andalusia

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Alamos
Along this street, the walls of the city wandered up to the gate Puerta de Santa Maria. The Fresh Fruit Market, built in 1875, was located there and still has the original gate Puerta de Santa Ana. Today a modern fresh fruit market stands on its place. Between this street and the square Plaza Cervantes, the ice and beer factory El Lagarto was settled in by the family Puga in 1921. Years later, in 1928, it was renamed 'El Alcazar', but the factory continued its activity until 1962 when they moved out.

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Alcalá Wenceslada
Located here was the convent of Nuestrs señora de la Coronada, built in 1621 by the Carmelites. It was used as a prison during the War of Independence. After its confiscation, it was used as a school until 1857, when it was adapted as a correctional institution. It kept this use until 1931, when the new prison on the avenue Paseo de la Estación was built and the old building was demolished. The site was used for summer cinema projections, the Jalisco and later Rosales. Later, it was used to widen the current street. In 1955, it adopted its current name, given in honour of the local professor, archivist, philologist and writer Antonio Alcalá Wenceslada (1883-1955).

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Almenas
An evocative cobbled street alongside one corner of the cathedral.

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Almendros Aguilar
This was the street Maestra Alta until 1903, when it was renamed in memory of Antonio Almendros Aguilar (1825-1904), a Jaen Poet. The Marques of Acapulco, the family Aranda Messia and the mayor Cándido Carrasco, had their residencies here.A summer theatre was opened here in 1894, which later gave way to a cinema in 1955, Cinema San Lorenzo.After 1928, where it connects with the gate Arco San Lorenzo, the street suffered a considerable degradation with the disfiguring of the gate to facilitate the passing of the processions, especially that of Nuestro Padre Jesús de Nazareno. The stretch of street from the square Plaza de la Merced and Arco de San Lorenzo, of uneven alignment and incline, still preserves regionalist and modernist buildings from the early 20th century.

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Architect Berges
Cropping up amongst an area of gardens between the Paseo de la Estación and the Arrabalejo, as one of the axes of the first expansion of the city during the 20th century, around the square Plaza de las Batallas. Its proximity to the avenue of the station led to the construction of several buildings for public administration and, after 1950, gardened houses were built, even though the area was still outside the urban quarter. The street was dedicated to Luis Berges Martínez (1891- 1939), a municipal architect of the city and a force behind the regionalist style. He was the author of the Urban Expansion Plan of 1927, an attempt at rational expansion. He proposed an order to the growth of the city in the northern zone and planned the park of Victoria and interior reforms, giving the old quarter an exit onto the Granada road. He took part in the construction and renovation of important buildings in the city, as well as the construction of private houses.

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Avenida de Andalucía
The old avenue Rodríguez Acosta or Gran Eje. Created in the Urban Organization Plan of 1952 as a nucleus to ease congestion of the Paseo de la Estación towards the Cordoba road. The excessive height of the buildings detracted from the original perspective thought up, however, it solved the housing problem of the city and eased traffic circulation. In 1970 and 80, the Avenida de Andalucía filled up with expensive housing of seven floors and interior gardens, urbanistically connecting the urban centre with the neighbourhood of Santa Isabel.

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Avenida de Madrid
With the plan for urban regulation in 1952, set out by the architect Enrique Bonilla y Mir, it was intended that the Madrid road would be used to solve the problem of city expansion.

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Avenida Ejercito Español
This street connected the Plaza de las Batallas with the Cordova road. Buildings began to appear along this route, especially public ones, whose new constructions neede large amounts of land. Bronze Age archaeological remains have been found nearby, related to the Marroquíes Bajos site. In 1959, important Roman remains were found in the nearby Calle Sagrada Familia,.

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Avenida Muñoz Grandes
Agustín Muñoz Grandes (1896-1970) was a Spanish military officer who fought in the Moroccan War, the Civil War, and the Second World War at the front of Spanish volunteers, the División Azul. In 1945 he was named field marshal of the 1st military region. At the start of the 1950s, he was appointed as Minister of the Army and later field marshal. in 1962, he attained vice presidency of the government.

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