Exit: Municipal Tourist Office
Built between 1894 and 1895. Inside, it has ten remarkable allegorical paintings by the Murcia-born artist José Sánchez, produced in 1905.
Garden with a considerable variety of trees and plants, laid out in 1874. Key attractions are its four ficus, two of them over a hundred years old, located in each corner and imported from Brazil. 8 streets converge on this square.
It is surrounded by several 19th-century facades, including the Neo-Mudejar style Town Council, with horseshoe-arch windows, intertwining ornamentation, turrets, socles, and so on. At the entrance stands the artistic wrought-iron gate, opening onto the first floor.
In the centre of the square, and once the fountain was finished, water flowed by means of kind of a pipe. At the end of 1887, a small sculpture was placed in the middle representing a white swan with a reptile biting its neck, whose beak emitted a jet of crystalline water, piped from the Tébar and Chuecos springs. In time, and thanks to locals' idiosyncrasy, the small sculpture of the Swan was transformed into "Pava" (turkey), known from then on as "La Pava de la Balsa" .
In this square, we can also see the Church of San José (19th century), in sober Neo-Classical style and without decoration, combining grey and white tones in its interior, on a basilica ground plan of three aisles, transept and a deep apse. Around 1853, more or less the date of its construction, Águilas had major lead foundries for extracting silver, and their workers contributed to its construction. The main foundry had an image of St. Joseph: hence the name.
This church also conserves the image of the Virgen de los Dolores, the town's patron saint, carved by Roque López, a disciple of Salzillo.
Set up by the municipality in 1999 and opened to the public in the year 2000. It is located on Calle Conde de Aranda, 16 (old post office building).
Inside, we can revisit the town's history, from the remote Neolithic era (up to 3000 B.C.) (discoveries from the C-6 cave at Cape Cope), to the present day. The most interesting sections include the collection of Roman archaeology.
Most of these materials come from the archaeological excavations carried out in Águilas in recent years, which have been documenting the Roman settlement lying beneath the modern town.
Also noteworthy, mainly owing to their importance for the current population, are the the remains from Águilas pre-foundational and fundational period, found in Monte del Castillo de San Juan de Águilas (18th century).
The Sea Interpretation Centre shares space with this museum. It has a small permanent exhibition room with an aquarium containing species from the area, plus a series of objects relating to the sea, decorations, fishing utensils, scale models of fishing systems in the area, collections of knots and maps, etc.
In the basement of the building located on Calle Rey Carlos III lie the remains "in situ" of Roman baths dating from the 1st century A.D., specifically part of a caldorium (room for hot baths).
The whole ground plan of these thermal baths was the work of Mr. Manuel Robles Vives, abbot of the Collegiate of Lorca, who excavated them in 1787. The small exhibition that accompanies the archaeological remains shows the ground plan and the reconstruction of this thermal building.
Inaugurated in the year 1991, located in Plaza de Asunción Balaguer. It has a "Manuel Coronado" exhibitions room, a spacious assembly hall, different multi-purpose rooms and the municipal library.
It houses the awards, trophies and other recognitions given to the Águilas-born actor Francisco Rabal, who it is named after, together with those of his daughter and also actress Teresa Rabal. You can also visit the different exhibitions that are held throughout the year, including paintings, photographs, crafts, etc.
Work on the port concluded in the year 1884 and, from that moment on, Águilas commercial recovery began. It shipped minerals from Sierra Almagrera, lead mineral from Sierra Almenara, esparto and minerals from Granada, Murcia, Albacete, Almería and Jaén.
Goods received were coal from England, cement from Catalonia, Scotland and North Africa. In the years from 1912 to 1925, many ships used to arrive, with seven or eight ships docking at the same time. It is located at 37º 27 ' 7" longitude north and 1º 34 ' 5" longitude west of the Greenwich meridian.
Its lighthouse stands 30.90 m. above sea level and has a reach of 15 miles. It is currently known as the "Faro de Punta Negra (Black Point Lighthouse)". It was first lit on the 30th of August, 1860.
The fishing port has the most important fishing fleet in the Region of Murcia.
After different constructions being carried out throughout its history, the defence tower was built in 1579, on the modern-day hill of the castle, with a new fort eretced in 1754, along with the fortifications round the whole summit of the hill. From the top, we can get wonderful panoramic views of the city and its surrounding area. Easy access. Access up along Calle Murillo.
This was one of the first locomotives used in Águilas. A homage to the railway and to its contribution to the town’s economic development.
It was built in 1899 by Neilson in Glasgow (Scotland), brought by ship to Águilas port and assembled in the British company’s workshop’s here in the town.
It officially entered into service on the 1st of April, 1890, coinciding with the inauguration of the Almendricos-Águilas section, and was taken out of service on the 15th of November, 1967.
An event was held in the summer of 1969, chaired by the Director General of Renfe, Mr. Alfredo Les Florestán, to officialy hand the locomotive over to the town of Águilas. It was installed in Plaza de Isaac Peral in August, 1970.
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