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Click HereThe Auditorio Infanta Elena hosts a screening of the documentary made about the remarkable engineer and photographer Gustavo Gillman who lived in Águilas for twenty five years and is largely responsible for the construction of the railway infrastructure in the municipality.
He was born in London in 1856 and came to Spain to work as an engineer for “The Great Southern Spanish Railway Company” which built the railway network linking Lorca, Baza in Granada where substantial quantities of minerals were mined, and Águilas from whence the raw minerals were shipped out to fuel the industrial revolution.
He designed and oversaw the build of not only the railway network, but also the infrastructure associated with it, including the Embarcadero del Hornillo which remains one of the greatest monuments to this period of industrial expansion in the region, a vast loading dock from which boats were filled, together with the associated storage areas in which millions of tons of minerals were deposited in order to ensure continuous loading and mining.
He was also a keen photographer and has left a collection of thousands of photographs documenting daily life at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, capturing the workers as they tackled the difficult engineering challenges of the construction process, their families and those who supplied them with their daily needs, as well as images captured during his countless visits around the Murcia Region, a collection of incalculable historical value which is managed by the regional archive.
Each month Águilas tourist office runs a free guided tour examining the connections between Águilas and this railway network, an excellent tour which is well worth signing up for. See the feed below for forthcoming tours or go to www.aguilastoday.com which contains detailed information about the municipality in English.
The screening of the documentary is in the Auditorio Infanta Elena of Águilas and starts at 20:00.
Entry is free of charge.
Click for map: Auditorio Infanta Elena
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