Hotel Pez Espada is a hotel in Torremolinos

Torremolinos

Torremolinos is a municipality on the Costa del Sol of the Mediterranean, immediately to the west of the city of Málaga, in the province of Málaga in the autonomous region of Andalusia in southern Spain...

, Spain

Spain

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. Built in 1959-1960, it became a Bien de Interés Cultural

Bien de Interés Cultural

A Bien de Interés Cultural is a category of the Spanish heritage register. This category dates from 1985 when it replaced the former heritage category of Monumento nacional in order to extend protection to a wider range of cultural property...

in 2006, as the hotel is considered one of the pioneering hotels of the Costa del Sol tourist industry today. It is located right on the beach, next to the 'La Carihuela' area noted for its seafood restaurants. The hotel has 192 guest rooms and 13 suites.

Architecture

The hotel was built by the architects Manuel Muñoz Monasterio and Juan Jáuregui Briales in 1959-1960, who incorporated in its design the revisionist tendencies of the modern movement in those years, with the introduction of sets of colors, textures, wavy lines, etc.. The two grand staircases in the lobby set the appearance of the main facade, characterized by a semi-cylindrical body. On the upper floors, the rooms are distributed asymmetrically on both sides of the gallery. It underwent renovation in the late 1980s.