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Central Market of Alicante

Alacant/Alicante, L'Alacantí, Alicante

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Central Market of Alicante

Activity · Alacant/Alicante, L'Alacantí, Alicante

The Mercado Central of Alicante, on the avenida de Alfonso el Sabio, is an eclectic building with modernista ornamentation whose first design, by the architect Enrique Sánchez Sedeño, dates from 1911, the year King Alfonso XIII laid the first stone; the works, directed by Juan Vidal on a later design by Próspero Lafarga and Francisco Fajardo, took place between 1917 and 1921; the market was inaugurated in 1922. On 25 May 1938, during the civil war, it was bombed by Italian fascist aircraft flying from Mallorca, leaving more than three hundred dead. Rectangular in plan with a rotunda at the south-western corner, it is arranged in three naves on steel pillars and trusses, with roofs allowing overhead lighting; it was renovated in 1986 by the architect Alfonso Navarro Guzmán.

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