Town Hall Alicante(Ayuntamiento)
Town Hall Alicante
Town Hall Introduction
- You can enter the Town Hall in the morning on Monday to Friday, for Free
- Designed as a Palace by the architect Lorenzo Chapula
- The elegant Baroque town hall was completed in 1760.
- The 2 towers are 165 foot high and built over archways allowing the visitor to access the other side of the building. You can't go up the tower.
- One of the towers contains a clock on the front and back faces of the tower.
- Between the 2 towers is a stone balustrade and a central shorter tower capped with a blue tiled dome set back so is not noticed if viewing from close to the building.
- the Blue Room (Salon Azul).
Magnificent main staircase & Cota Cero" (Ground Zero height marker)
- The Cota Cero marker is located on the left end of the bottom step of the magnificent main staircase. T
- Cota Cero (Ground Zero) - All heights is Spain are calibrate from this step, which is a
- ctually 3.409 meters (approx. 11.18 feet) above the Mediterranean Sea mean sea level.
- Alicante was chosen for this because the tidal change is almost non existance, only 0.1 to 0.2 meters (roughly 4 to 8 inches)
St John sculpture by Salvador Dali
St John sculpture by Salvador Dali is located next to the staircase
Town Hall Location
- Located 150 metres back from the sea front esplanade at the corner of the Eastern harbour sea wall, and the Casa Carbonell
- Address: Plaza del Ayuntamiento, 1 The plaza has cafes
See Location of Town Hall on our Alicante Map
