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The mining community of Alquife is located in the municipality of Alquife, belonging to the province of Granada (Andalusia, Spain).

History
The town was built in 1930 and was habitable until 1996, when the Compañía Andaluza de Minas stopped working, due to the low profitability of iron.

Description
The comforts of the town were far superior to other homonymous towns, with public buildings of great architectural ambition: schools, chapel, workers club, engineering club, cinema, swimming pool, hospital and sports field.

The houses are single-family and form up to six typological groups: large single-storey chalets for engineers, semi-detached single-storey houses for technical staff and more modest houses for foremen and workers. It should be noted how the architecture reflects the hierarchy of the company, both in housing and equipment.

Relevance
The relevance of the architectural complex lies in that it constitutes one of the first examples of the Modern Movement in the province of Granada. It also contains an example of Andalusian regionalist architecture from the 1930s.