An exhibition reviews the history of the Plaza del Altozano in Albacete | Radio Albacete

The Municipal Museum welcomes until October 4 ‘El Altozano, the square of our history’, an exhibition held by the Municipal Archive, which includes models of disappeared buildings and 11 panels with photographs and documents that allow discovering the different configurations that the square had until the arrival of the 20th century and the reform that it underwent with its expansion after the demolition of the Justinian convent, as explained by the City Council in a press release.

Another 11 panels allow the visitor to take a tour of the buildings that surround the Altozano, discover the origin of the name of Hillock and find out what other Spanish squares have the same name. The exhibition is completed with a projection of photographs of the square and the buildings throughout the 20th century.

CYCLE OF CONFERENCES

The exhibition is completed with a series of conferences that will take place every Wednesday, at 8:00 p.m., in the plenary hall of the old Town Hall. The cycle begins on September 9 with a presentation by Aurelio Pretel Marín, entitled “Medieval Albacete”. On September 16 it will be the turn of Jesús Antonio López, director of the Municipal Film Library, who will offer a conference entitled “A cinema square”. On the 23rd it will be Antonio Selva, director of the Institute of Albacete Studies, who will offer a presentation entitled “Refugio del Altozano, witness of death that comes from heaven”. And on the 30th the cycle will close with the lecture “Albacete, conventual village”, by Vicente Carrión Iñiguez.