Today sees the inauguration of the Torres de Hércules in Los Barrios, Cádiz, the tallest building in the region of Andalucía.
The official inauguration takes place at 13:00 and the building will start being used as from tomorrow.
The structure, measured to the top of the communications antenna, is 126 metres tall and surpasses the previous tallest building, the Giralda centre in Sevilla, by almost 30 metres.
The support foundations include 360 posts driven in to a depth of 36 metres and the first stone for the building was laid on June 1st 2006. It has two cylindrical towers of 20 floors with an area of 12,000 square metres and there are connecting glass walkways on each floor.
So, in perspective, it takes a little over three years from the laying of the first brick to construct a huge, 126 metre tall building in Cádiz, but over 20 years to not even know where the first brick is coming from for a small sewage works in Nerja.