La Piqueta - Madrid, España - Lonely Chimneys on Waymarking.com

[ES] Esta chimenea, conocida popularmente como La Piqueta, está en el distrito de Villaverde en concreto en el barrio de San Cristóbal.

Esta zona era de las más industriales de Madrid con multitud de fábricas de las que a día de hoy persisten solo algunos restos como es el caso de esta chimenea.

Es de la antigua fábrica de ladrillos Nora y se ve bastante bien dada la ubicación en un lateral de la Av. de Andalucía. La fábrica de ladrillos data de 1907, aquí el terreno era favorable para extraer la materia prima para la fabricación de ladrillos porque el suelo es de arcilla, de hecho, la zona se llamaba El Barrero (por el barro que siempre tenía). La fábrica Nora cerró sus puertas, a principios de los años cincuenta.

La chimenea fue destruida en la Guerra Civil y posteriormente reconstruida por vecinos del barrio en la postguerra.

Tiene una altura considerable con una doble corona, una formada por arcos ciegos y estilizados y una segunda de diámetro inferior a la primera.

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[EN] This chimney, popularly known as La Piqueta, is in the district of Villaverde, specifically in the neighborhood of San Cristóbal.

This area was one of the most industrial in Madrid with a multitude of factories of which only a few remains remain today, as is the case with this chimney.

It is from the old Nora brick factory and it looks quite good given its location on one side of Av. de Andalucía. The brick factory dates from 1907, here the land was favorable to extract the raw material for the manufacture of bricks because the soil is clay, in fact, the area was called El Barrero (because of the mud it always had). The Nora factory closed its doors in the early fifties.

The chimney was destroyed in the Civil War and later rebuilt by residents of the neighborhood in the postwar period.

It has a considerable height with a double crown, one formed by blind and stylized arches and a second with a smaller diameter than the first.

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