Around Columbus statue, in Isabella the Catholic square, groups of people gather every day to take pictures of themselves at the foot of the sculpture. Few places like this symbolise the impulse that led to a radical transformation in the world known so far. In Granada, the conditions were created, partly by chance, that would open a decisive stage for humanity.

With the fascination that causes this piece of History, enclosed right in the city centre, no one seems to look back nor to notice the Gran Via, that modernist avenue that was built with the profits that were generated with the sugar beet fields on the coast, in the years after the war of Cuba, at the beginning of the twentieth century. A back-and-forth story.

If we compare them with the countless milestones that this city has had from the Arabic Granada to the Baroque one, going through the Renaissance, modernist, literary and artistic ones (in painting, sculpture, flamenco, dancing, music), the ginkgoes in Gran Via, planted some years ago due to the remodelling of the pavements and lighting, seem like they are very little.