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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).
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Herón escultura de José Luis Sánchez de 1975 junto a las Torres de Colón, Plaza de Colón, Madrid, España: Date: 22 January 2010, 15:44: Source: 001789 - Madrid: Author: M.Peinado from Alcalá de Henares, España
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.
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.
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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.
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