Alicante City Hall
The Municipal Palace of Alicante, which serves as the headquarters for its City Hall, is a splendid 18th-century Baroque building that replaced its previous headquarters, destroyed by the French naval bombardment in 1691.
The building has a rectangular plan with a symmetrical three-story main façade, flanked by two taller towers at its ends through which Santísima Faz Square is connected by a passageway with City Hall Square.
The ground floor of the City Hall has five openings, the central one being the largest of all and comprising the main access to the building. The balconies on the ground floor have double windows except for the towers, where they have only one, but all of them have split curved pediments.
The top floor of the City Hall maintains the same layout of the openings as the previous one, but with the difference being that its balconies are individual. The last notable detail of the façade is its balustrade, behind which it is possible to see the dome that covers its internal staircase.
An interesting detail is that at the beginning of the main staircase of the City Hall is the so-called “Level Zero”, the referential point used to measure the height above sea level of any of the places in Spanish territory. It was the result of an important study carried out in the Port of Alicante between July 1870 and February 1874 to obtain systematic measurements and thus obtain a topographic map of the entire Spanish territory.
The building has a rectangular plan with a symmetrical three-story main façade, flanked by two taller towers at its ends through which Santísima Faz Square is connected by a passageway with City Hall Square.
The ground floor of the City Hall has five openings, the central one being the largest of all and comprising the main access to the building. The balconies on the ground floor have double windows except for the towers, where they have only one, but all of them have split curved pediments.
The top floor of the City Hall maintains the same layout of the openings as the previous one, but with the difference being that its balconies are individual. The last notable detail of the façade is its balustrade, behind which it is possible to see the dome that covers its internal staircase.
An interesting detail is that at the beginning of the main staircase of the City Hall is the so-called “Level Zero”, the referential point used to measure the height above sea level of any of the places in Spanish territory. It was the result of an important study carried out in the Port of Alicante between July 1870 and February 1874 to obtain systematic measurements and thus obtain a topographic map of the entire Spanish territory.
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