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This
week we resume with our ninth photographic series on the face-lift of
San Antonio, when the 1992 summer tourism season had ended, by showing a
selection of pictures that were taken as the work began to reclaim the
twenty-five metres of land from the sea to make a way for a new
promenade.
There are also pictures of the two new fountains operational in the
Paseo de las Fuentes and one of Christopher Columbus’s ship, Santa
Maria, that the King of Spain provided for Columbus to make his maiden
voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to discover America, which was
installed in the centre of the Egg in the middle of the roundabout at
the entrance to San Antonio.
The
wooden replica model of Christopher Columbus’s ship the, Santa Maria,
was made and then installed in the middle of the Egg by the renowned
artist, Julio Bauzá, who we featured in our Artists on Ibiza (Four)
series, which was published in Weekly Edition 041 on Saturday 8th
December 2001.
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It’s
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Will
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Growing Enterprise |
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Smooth Operation |
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Another Walkover? |
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Growth Potential |
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Stage Something Special |
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Round Fountain Working in Paseo De Las Fuentes |
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Oblong Fountain Working in Paseo De Las Fuentes |
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Santa Maria in the Middle of the Egg |
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Pictures © Gary Hardy (Friday 20th November 1992) |
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Gary Hardy
garyhardy@ibizahistoryculture.com |
