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Columbus Towers or Torres de Colón is a highrise office building composed of twin towers located at the Plaza de Colón in Madrid, Spain. The building constructed in 1976 was designed by the architect Antonio Lamela. The building with its 116-meter height and 23 floors is the twelfth-tallest in the Spanish capital (counting the CTBA towers).
Plaza de Colón (Columbus Square, in English) is located in the encounter of Chamberí, Centro and Salamanca districts of Madrid, Spain. This plaza and its fountain commemorate the explorer Christopher Columbus , [ 1 ] whose name in Spanish was Cristóbal Colón.
Torre de Madrid: 142 m (466 ft) 36 1957 Residential, office 8 Torre Europa: 120 m (394 ft) 30 1985 Office 9 Edificio España: 117 m (384 ft) 25 1953 Hotel, office 10 Torres de Colón: 116 m (381 ft) 23 1976 Office 11= Gate of Europe tower 1 115 m (377 ft) 26 1996 Office 11= Gate of Europe tower 2 115 m (377 ft) 26 1996 Office 13 Castellana 81
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Torres is the 50th most common surname in the United States and the 11th most common Spanish surname. [3] It is a common surname in Puerto Rico , Dominican Republic , Spain , Portugal , Colombia , Peru , Cuba , Mexico , Venezuela and the Philippines , among others.
The Monument to Columbus (Spanish: Monumento a Colón) is a monument in Madrid, Spain. It lies on the namesake square, the Plaza de Colón. The basement of the monument is a Gothic revival work by Arturo Mélida while the topping statue is a work by Jerónimo Suñol.
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Luis de Torres (died 1493) was Christopher Columbus's interpreter on his first voyage to America. De Torres was a converso , a Jewish person who was forced to convert to Christianity or be put to death according to the Spanish Inquisition , apparently born Yosef ben HaLevi HaIvri in Moguer , Spain.