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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).
At number 26, there is the Palacio de Gamazo , an 1888 work by Ricardo Velázquez Bosco that is classed as a Bien de Interés Cultural. [7] Twin skyscrapers designed by Antonio Lamela and finished in 1976, the Torres de Colón are at number 31, at the corner with the Paseo de la Castellana near the Plaza de Colón. [8]
The plaza, originally called Plaza de Santiago (St. James Square), was renamed Plaza de Colón in 1893 to honor Christopher Columbus. The square contains two monuments. On the Paseo de la Castellana side there is a monument to Columbus whose base was constructed between 1881-1885. [2] It is topped by a statue of Columbus. The monument is 3 ...
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Torre de Cristal: 250 m (820 ft) 52 2009 Office 2 Torre Cepsa: 248.3 m (815 ft) 45 2008 Office 3 Torre PwC: 236 m (774 ft) 52 2009 Office, hotel 4 Torre Espacio: 230 m (755 ft) 51 2008 Office 5 Caleido: 181 m (594 ft) 36 2020 Office 6 Torre Picasso: 157 m (515 ft) 46 1988 Office 7 Torre de Madrid: 142 m (466 ft) 36 1957 Residential, office 8
Cuatro Torres Business Area, a business district in Madrid that houses the four tallest skyscrapers in Spain. This is a list of the tallest buildings in Spain . Since 2008 the tallest building in Spain has been the 250 metres (820 ft) tall Torre de Cristal in Madrid .
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
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.