Around Columbus statue, in Isabel la Católica 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, partly by chance, the conditions were created that would open a decisive stage for humanity.

With the fascination that causes this piece of History, located in the heart of the city, no one seems to look back nor to notice the Gran Vía, that modernist avenue that was built with the profits that were generated with the sugar beet plantations on the coast, especially in the years after the loss 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 Arab Granada to the Baroque one, passing through the Renaissance, the modernist, the literary, the artistic (in painting, sculpture, flamenco, dance, 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 thing.