The Casa Pinon - murcia car hire

The exceptionally buoyant situation of the minning industry and the increase in the prices of metal made the area live as though it where in a dream for a time.

La Union was even called the New California, given the astonishing pace at which casinos, palaces, and brothels sprang up everywhere. It is in this context that constructions like the Casa Piñón and the Public market appeared in the mining town od La Unión.

The public market is a superb representation in ironwork of early XX century architecture. Othewealthy families decided to erect their own manor houses in Cartagena. This is how some jewels of Modernism in the Region began to spring up. One of them is the City Hall, erected in 1902 by Tomás Rico. Whereas the façade shows an alternation of neo-classic columns and eclectic elements, the interior layout was conceived around a magnificent marble staircase with numerous large windows and ornaments that remind us of flowers, leaves, and other natural elements, very much in the taste of Modernism.