With less often than we'd like to publish a new installment of Carrers d'Alacant dedicated this time to one of the avenues of the city, in our view, remains almost intact the essence of old Alicante. It is now known as the Avenue of the Constitution. It is the only name that has had such a central artery, nor is it the only way that Alicante has been dedicated to a Constitution as we shall see.
Avenue of the Constitution is not a long road but we can not regard it as short. Is accessible from the Avenida de Alfonso el Sabio and ends at the Plaza de Ruperto Chapi. In its layout stand some of the most beautiful buildings Alicante as the Emergency, the closed Cine Ideal, the abandoned building Telefónica, Columbus building, the former military government has been turned into luxury housing, or the building of the former Central Bank (now Banco Santander).
Zorrilla The Avenue then in the 20's. On the right the buildings seen
Columbus Telephone Company,
Ideal Cinema and the Military Government building
Years 30. Already seen in the foreground
Ruperto Chapi monument placed in the plaza just
Origin this avenue, we find him in 1810 when the belt built city walls and formed Barranquet Square, on which later raised the Teatro Principal, came a strange edificiación known as the Coffin House had its way solar resembled a coffin, and perhaps also to be near what was then called the Enterradores Street (now part of Gunners) where he set up the guild. It was for this reason that for some time the Constitution Avenue was named Coffin Street. The other front of the house I looked at the wall was called Calle de la Soledad as the reader will see at the the end.
Returning to Alicante, we have to this area of \u200b\u200bthe city was located in a corner of the urban constrained by the walls, so it became a hangout for unsavory characters who came to the many brothels and brothels that settled there and survived until 1892. It was a place of scandals, murder, suicide and unpleasant events.
The City Council made every effort to eliminate this source of crime and prostitution and agreed in the mid-nineteenth century to change the names of the streets of Solitude and the Coffin by Zorrilla and Moratín. We believe that at least in the first case is the less fun than a street that was practiced prostitution Zorrilla received the name ...
José Zorrilla and Leandro Fernández de Moratín gave
name to the ancient streets of Solitude and
Coffin Years later, after the demolition of the walls and the planning of the solar city blocks shaped coffin becomes a rectangular block. During the term of Mayor Manuel Gómiz (1891-1893) was the demolition of the entire block of the Coffin House ending the problem of prostitution in the area ... which would move to the streets of Leon, Holy Christ, and Pizarro Aliaga ... which would be demolished in the 70 to extend the now Plaza de San Cristobal. We note a special predilection for the downing Alicante municipalities of apples as a way to end prostitution.
As we have said, the mayor Gómiz tidy up the area, creating a new avenue with two rows of trees that was called Zorilla Avenue, one of the two streets missing. Moratín be moved to a small neighborhood street Benalúa. Part of the solar Coffin House would rise after the Emergency.
Buenaventura Durruti gave name to the
name Zorilla Avenue remains undisturbed until 17 June 1937, date on which the road passes a engage Durruti. With the victory of the rebels and the entry of goods in Alicante on March 30, 1939, street names are rolled back 'by law' to 1931. But the City is headed by Franco Ambrosio Luciáñez approving the renaming of Durruti Avenue (Avenida de Zorrilla call) by José Antonio (both killed the 20-N, 1936), transferring the name of the writer the Carolinas, in particular to the then Liberty Avenue was going to be called Avenida del Poeta Zorrilla, name it still enjoys.
Zorrilla In 1939 he moved to
Liberty Avenue in the neighborhood of the Carolinas
Following the formation of the first democratic councils in 1979, is chaired by José Luis LaSalette approving the renaming of several city streets of the city under the pretext of recovering their traditional names: Caudillo is changed Muntanyeta Comrade Maciá Admiral Carrero Blanco and San Cristófol, July 18 by City Council (the name never ostentatious) and José Antonio Constitució changing. These changes occurred in the second plenary session of the new City Hall, specifically the May 10, 1979. Counted with the votes of socialists and Communists, voting against UCD.
As stated this was not the first public road dedicated to Constitution. Following the adoption of the Constitution of 1812-the then-Pepa of the Forks Plaza where it won the Portal de Elche would carry the name of the Constitution, which the successive changes of Fernando VII jacket, trocaría Plaza Real de Fernando VII, Constitution Plaza Real de Fernando VII, the Constitution .... maintained until the end of the Civil War the name of the Magna Carta of 1812. It was in 1939, he finished the War, when Franco's authorities give the name of Plaza del Generalissimo. With the opening of the new position after clearing the Montañeta, the name of Generalissimo, as amended to Caudillo, would move to the planned called "Plaza Province, "which was also in other locations in Spain. The former Plaza of the Constitution would violate the historic name of Portal de Elche.
Here are some drawings of
Year 1897. Part of the ancient solar
Coffin House is still undeveloped. In the solar
Market is the Teatro Circo
Year 1932. It clearly shows the Avenida de Zorrilla
1940-41. Avenue and is named José Antonio.
La Rambla is not extended. When a plane of the 30
rectified, there is some confusion the names of some streets
maintaining its previous name Republican
(Thomas Meabe eg by Holy Christ.)
1968. On the Avenida José Antonio are listed
the Emergency, the telephone and the Theatre
Avenue of the Constitution now
Avenue of the Constitution is not a long road but we can not regard it as short. Is accessible from the Avenida de Alfonso el Sabio and ends at the Plaza de Ruperto Chapi. In its layout stand some of the most beautiful buildings Alicante as the Emergency, the closed Cine Ideal, the abandoned building Telefónica, Columbus building, the former military government has been turned into luxury housing, or the building of the former Central Bank (now Banco Santander).
Zorrilla The Avenue then in the 20's. On the right the buildings seen Columbus Telephone Company,
Ideal Cinema and the Military Government building
Years 30. Already seen in the foreground
Ruperto Chapi monument placed in the plaza just
Origin this avenue, we find him in 1810 when the belt built city walls and formed Barranquet Square, on which later raised the Teatro Principal, came a strange edificiación known as the Coffin House had its way solar resembled a coffin, and perhaps also to be near what was then called the Enterradores Street (now part of Gunners) where he set up the guild. It was for this reason that for some time the Constitution Avenue was named Coffin Street. The other front of the house I looked at the wall was called Calle de la Soledad as the reader will see at the the end.
coffin name today we can be shocking and peculiar, but it was not something exclusive to Alicante, as also found in Madrid. One of the houses demolished in the early twentieth century to open the Gran Via received this name because of the particular physiognomy of the land it occupied.
Returning to Alicante, we have to this area of \u200b\u200bthe city was located in a corner of the urban constrained by the walls, so it became a hangout for unsavory characters who came to the many brothels and brothels that settled there and survived until 1892. It was a place of scandals, murder, suicide and unpleasant events.
The City Council made every effort to eliminate this source of crime and prostitution and agreed in the mid-nineteenth century to change the names of the streets of Solitude and the Coffin by Zorrilla and Moratín. We believe that at least in the first case is the less fun than a street that was practiced prostitution Zorrilla received the name ...
José Zorrilla and Leandro Fernández de Moratín gave
name to the ancient streets of Solitude and
Coffin Years later, after the demolition of the walls and the planning of the solar city blocks shaped coffin becomes a rectangular block. During the term of Mayor Manuel Gómiz (1891-1893) was the demolition of the entire block of the Coffin House ending the problem of prostitution in the area ... which would move to the streets of Leon, Holy Christ, and Pizarro Aliaga ... which would be demolished in the 70 to extend the now Plaza de San Cristobal. We note a special predilection for the downing Alicante municipalities of apples as a way to end prostitution.
As we have said, the mayor Gómiz tidy up the area, creating a new avenue with two rows of trees that was called Zorilla Avenue, one of the two streets missing. Moratín be moved to a small neighborhood street Benalúa. Part of the solar Coffin House would rise after the Emergency.
Buenaventura Durruti gave name to the Avenue of the Constitution from 1937 to 1939
José Antonio would do the same for 40 years.
José Antonio would do the same for 40 years.
name Zorilla Avenue remains undisturbed until 17 June 1937, date on which the road passes a engage Durruti. With the victory of the rebels and the entry of goods in Alicante on March 30, 1939, street names are rolled back 'by law' to 1931. But the City is headed by Franco Ambrosio Luciáñez approving the renaming of Durruti Avenue (Avenida de Zorrilla call) by José Antonio (both killed the 20-N, 1936), transferring the name of the writer the Carolinas, in particular to the then Liberty Avenue was going to be called Avenida del Poeta Zorrilla, name it still enjoys.
Zorrilla In 1939 he moved to Liberty Avenue in the neighborhood of the Carolinas
Following the formation of the first democratic councils in 1979, is chaired by José Luis LaSalette approving the renaming of several city streets of the city under the pretext of recovering their traditional names: Caudillo is changed Muntanyeta Comrade Maciá Admiral Carrero Blanco and San Cristófol, July 18 by City Council (the name never ostentatious) and José Antonio Constitució changing. These changes occurred in the second plenary session of the new City Hall, specifically the May 10, 1979. Counted with the votes of socialists and Communists, voting against UCD.
As stated this was not the first public road dedicated to Constitution. Following the adoption of the Constitution of 1812-the then-Pepa of the Forks Plaza where it won the Portal de Elche would carry the name of the Constitution, which the successive changes of Fernando VII jacket, trocaría Plaza Real de Fernando VII, Constitution Plaza Real de Fernando VII, the Constitution .... maintained until the end of the Civil War the name of the Magna Carta of 1812. It was in 1939, he finished the War, when Franco's authorities give the name of Plaza del Generalissimo. With the opening of the new position after clearing the Montañeta, the name of Generalissimo, as amended to Caudillo, would move to the planned called "Plaza Province, "which was also in other locations in Spain. The former Plaza of the Constitution would violate the historic name of Portal de Elche.
Year 1850. The shaped solar "coffin" delimited by
Soledad Street, Coffin, Flood and Park. (Plano
by Pedro Mas, taken from his blog
alicante1850.blogspot.com)
Soledad Street, Coffin, Flood and Park. (Plano
by Pedro Mas, taken from his blog
alicante1850.blogspot.com)
Year 1897. Part of the ancient solar Coffin House is still undeveloped. In the solar
Market is the Teatro Circo
Year 1932. It clearly shows the Avenida de Zorrilla 
1940-41. Avenue and is named José Antonio. La Rambla is not extended. When a plane of the 30
rectified, there is some confusion the names of some streets
maintaining its previous name Republican
(Thomas Meabe eg by Holy Christ.)
1968. On the Avenida José Antonio are listed the Emergency, the telephone and the Theatre
Avenue of the Constitution now 
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