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Strange Buildings at Cabo de Las Huertas
Weird concrete buildings are found here and there, scattered in the Cabo de Las Huertas area or Alicante.
I walked around and took photos of buildings that seemed at least a bit interesting...
Weird, ghost-townish concrete jungle. Barely a few people walking around and a fantastic vast clean sandy beach... That's Cabo de Las Huertas. At least, this is how I found it and this is how I left it.
And, all this in late June, which should be high season for beach life...
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But still, it has some interesting attractions even inland, even if it's a concrete jungle.
Because besides the beach there was really almost nothing else to do but to explore the streets and check out the buildings.
Many of the buildings looked like architects tried to play around with shapes and colours a bit, while still maintaining functionality and maximum area utilization requirements.
I can say not even this apartment and hotel concrete jungle was that flat boring.
I've seen terribly ugly places in Central and Eastern Europe.
The Cabo de Las Huertas isn't ugly.
Many buildings are minimalist, but they're not all alike and some are rather playful. Despite being mere house blocks/apartment blocks.
What was clearly annoying was that ghost townish feel. The place was died out.
It was odd to seeing all that infrastructure and so few people around.
Perhaps, this was the main reason why it was so cheap staying there.
Short drizzles ruined my beach hangout times occasionally and there was a time when I was under "hotel arrest" because of the rain for a few hours...
The weird Parroquia de San Pedro was built in the early 1970's
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Staring out the window, sippin' an Estrella beer I couldn't help notice the weird building, which oddly resembles the Cathedral of Brasília, which is found in the Brazilian capital.
That one was designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer.
(the Cathedral of Brasília site has some photos of it, also 360-degree views).
But I was in Alicante staring at a similar building - actually this one too, a church: Parroquia de San Pedro being its name.
This one is not all around, but sort-of-like a slice. It's a quarter of a circular building.
By design, it resembles that particular Brazilian cathedral.
(More photos and details in Spanish here).
Architects of the building: Ramón Benito Roces, Fernando Pérez Segura.
Besides the church...
There were several apartment blocks, which reminded me of shapes and buildings seen in the Star Wars movie. I'm referring to certain rounded-down salt holder-like shapes.
There's really nothing truly beautiful in this Cabo area besides the great beach.
It would be the only reason why I'd travel there again. But, despite it being so beautiful, it's dead. For a while, I'd prefer to go to places where there's most dynamism and better sights.
Further words are futile, I will leave you with a few photographs...
Star Wars feel design. Jedi building? Many of these felt deserted...
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Lines, layers and various shades of grey, yellow, brown dominate throughout the Cabo area's quarters
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The architect was playing around with boxes.
I wouldn't live in one of these. It would feel like design torture.
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