Antequera Town Hall Tourism Department. This building was erected in the early 18th century. The exterior, which is designed according to the”shell-façade” model, has got four axes, being the front on the right end. In the first section, made of red limestone from El Torcal, the door is flanked with two Tuscan columns supported [...]
Antequera Town Hall Tourism Department. It is one of the best preserved buildings, as well as one of the very few civil constructions whose date and author are known. Both data appear in a slab on the façade which literally reads: “Juan de Navarrete me fecit. Year 1762”. The exterior tectonic design follows the Antequera [...]
Antequera Town Hall Tourism Department. The original design of the façade follows the “shell-façade” model. The Baroque coat of arms, made of while limestone, located on both sides of the main balcony, are also the original ones. The façade, where the first section is more Baroque than the second one, whose tectonic design is already [...]
Antequera Town Hall Tourism Department. The Mansion of the Bouderé was built by the architect Daniel Rubio in the early 20th century. The balconies of this French Eclectic- style house, with pretty iron grilles, are projected out into the San Sebastian square
Antequera Town Hall Tourism Department. This building, which currently is the State School Romero Robledo, belonged to the Tejada family, who had the title of Baron of Sabasona. The construction goes back to the first half of the 18th century and it is one of the most original examples among the “shell-façade” houses so characteristic of [...]
Antequera Town Hall Tourism Department. Des Projektes (1932) der Architekt Daniel Rubio erhoben. Eclectic Wortschatz-Typ, basierend auf einer einzigartigen Mischung von Manierismus, Barock und neoklassizistischen Elementen mit moderner verwendet. Der allgemeine Ansatz ist, dass ein Gebäude an der Ecke, wo Sie all Ihre Aufmerksamkeit auf Fase monumentalen Charakter konzentrieren wollen
Antequera Town Hall Tourism Department. On the 4th of October 1697, the community of the Capuchin Order contracted the sculptor, Antonio del Castillo, to make the plinth for the Immaculate Memorial Column (triunfo), so it was placed on the leveled area existing in front of their convent. The artist only had to make the plinth [...]
Antequera Town Hall Tourism Department. Beside the bricks, the materials used to erect the Estepa Door are the red limestone from El Torcal in the pedestals of the three large pillars, and the cream-colored limestone from the same natural landscape in the heraldic emblem. Another significant element of the monument is the terracotta image of the [...]
Antequera Town Hall Tourism Department. This site, at the back of the Arco de los Gigantes (Giants Arch), offers one of the most impressive views of the town. From there, we can see the many churches, towers, belfries, bell towers and palaces which have been erected during four hundred centuries. In addition, we can enjoy one [...]
Antequera Town Hall Tourism Department. There are several green spaces in the town, although may be one of the most important is that surrounding the Bullring, with several well-distinguished areas. On the one hand, it is the so-call “Paseo Real” (Royal Promenade) with a cozy bandstand used by the Municipal Band to perform outdoors concerts. [...]
