Discover the Pasaje de Lodares, the most beautiful street in Spain and one that is full of life.

The old town of Albacete conceals a monumental street which is at the same time a shopping and residential gallery: the Pasaje de Lodares, an icon of the city of Albacete. And probably one of the most beautiful streets in Spain, with a unique cultural and architectural heritage. Placed between streets Tinte and Mayor, it is a postmodernist building that is set up as one of the few galleries of this kind found in Spain. Designed by the Valencian architect Buenaventura Ferrando Castells in 1925, it conceals plenty of history and houses between its columns and stained-glass windows, a heritage footprint that has been declared an Asset of Cultural Interest.

It is a street of monumental character, an icon of the city with a high architectural value, built during the golden age of the city’s architecture when some architects bloomed. The Pasaje is part of a whole that was intended as housing on the upper floors and commercial buildings on the lower floors.

Reliefs, sculptures and ornamental motifs decorate this small street, some of them represent industry and commerce. There is also a representation of God Mercury, referring to the commercial part. Also, there are female figures that represent the industrial arts and poetics.

At night, the Pasaje is closed, but during the day life bubbles around the commercial buildings on the lower floors. And in fact, that was the intention when it was designed during the twenties of the last century.