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Lovely building was in suitable use this weekend, with splendid period costumes.

The best of a modernist monument and current headquarters of the International Festival of Cante de las Minas. It cannot be described, it is better to enjoy it in person.

Modernist style, La Unión food plaza. Year 1907. Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC) in 1975. Architect Pedro Cerdán and Victor Beltrí, the latter also architect of the Casa Zapata de Portman (Casa del Tío Lobo)

A jewel of Architecture At Christmas they put a nativity scene at the front door.

I saw it 3 years ago, I loved it. The old Public Market of the Union is, without a doubt, one of the most outstanding works of modernist architecture in the entire Region of Murcia. It is located in a very significant area of ​​La Unión, presiding over a garden square in which there is a bronze monument dedicated to the miner. Project by the illustrious architect Pedro Cerdán, a native of Torre Pachecho, and the Catalan Victor Beltrí, it is currently the headquarters of tourist offices and the well-known International Festival of Cante de las Minas. Recovered some years ago, today we can admire a work of architectural modernism, the original combination of stone, iron and glass, which make this building an important emblem, not only of the mining and bourgeois past of this area of ​​Murcia, but also from the history of architecture. The building rests on a series of iron columns that support the entire weight of the structure. To achieve the best possible lighting of the open-plan interior, almost all the openings were covered with glass. Only the walls of the bays and the main façade were built by hand. The main façade of the clock, which is crowned with a dome with a bell, has an access door that is reached through stairs, a difference in level that the configuration of the terrain overcomes on the rear façade, which only has a small ramp. This main façade is decorated with windows that, inspired by the Romanesque and Gothic twins, but with straight and modern lines, are arranged on both the smaller sides and the main access side. Another ornamental element to highlight are the pinnacles that are distributed along the cornices, round, pointed or shaped like a fleur-de-lis, typical details of modernist architecture.