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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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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
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
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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The 3.30 m high statue, a work in Carrara marble by Jerónimo Suñol featuring Columbus holding a flag of Castile, was delivered to the Ayuntamiento de Madrid in 1892. [ 5 ] The monument was dismantled in 1976 and moved a year later to a nearby location in the Jardines del Descubrimiento . [ 6 ]