The competition to choose which Tio Pepe should stand on the
Tio Pepe roundabout in Jerez is finally over. The winner is the Tio Pepe
designed by sculptor Chiqui Diaz, chosen by over 6,000 people from all over the
world – but mainly Spain - who voted for the four finalists online on the Tio
Pepe facebook page. Soon, the new Tio Pepe will preside over the Avenida Tio
Pepe. Great marketing, eh?! Anyway, the roundabout will look quite like
this:
The Mayor of Sanlucar, Victor Mora, visited the bodegas of
La Guita in the Calle Misericordia today to inspect renovation and improvement
works which have just been finished. Responding to an invitation from the
president of owners Grupo Estevez, the mayor toured the bodega in the old
quarter of Sanlucar and saw the repair work to the façade as well as interior
improvements.
In this historic building from the XVI century there was once
the most important hospital in Sanlucar, known as the Hospital de la Santa
Misericordia, or later as the Hospital de San Juan de Dios. From 1867-8 the
building was converted to bodega use, and has been a bodega ever since.
Interestingly, the old doorway of San Juan de Dios is still preserved.
The Andalucia Party has asked that the local government
restore the old School of Industrial Relations building (formerly the Diez
Merito bodegas, right opposite the railway station) to avoid further deterioration,
and give it a cultural and social use, if the Junta de Andalucia’s projected
health centre doesn’t materialise. The building is now presenting a danger to
children and is infested with rats. The party has asked the council to pressurise
the health service to do what it has promised to do many times, and make it
into an extra-hospital emergency centre for the use of citizens of Jerez.
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