Published in: Europe

The Town Hall of Alicante City

Author Isolated Traveller

Published on: 02/08/2017

The Alicante city hall or as known as Ayuntamiento de Alicante, is a building that has two high towers, 165 foot, standing at each end of the building, which overlooks the square, you can also find a large clock in one of the towers, which counts down the clock in the new year, so the people of Alicante know.

Inside the City hall, you can find yourself at the buildings main staircase, a ‘cota cero’, this is where the main point from which the sea level of the various cities are measured.

The Blue room and a chapel is located at the first close, but also two other rooms which are styled in salon azul and a meeting hall.

You can find different rooms in the building which sure you the interesting work done by Amoros, Padilla, Cabrera and Gaston Castello.

During the war of Spanish Succession, in the seventeenth Century, the French almost destroyed the building however over the next 70 years, the building was slowly rebuild, thanks to the people.

Location

03002 Alicante
Province Alicante
Spain