Urban legends of Madrid: Goyito, the ghost in the skyscrapper.Inaugurated in 1930, the Telefó
Urban legends of Madrid: Goyito, the ghost in the skyscrapper.Inaugurated in 1930, the Telefónica Building (seen in the background) was Spain’s first skyscrappers and one of the first in Europe. Taking inspiration in New York’s architecture, a Spanish baroque touch was added in the main façade and ornaments. It had been conceived as the siege of Spain’s national telephone company; from there, Hemingway, Dos Passos or Saint-Exupéry send their reports of the Spanish Civil War. It’s not strange that the skyscrapper was a target of bombings, which, in the words of his architect Ignacio de Cárdenas, only scratched the colossus’ skin. The colossus had lived somber moments before, like for example the suicide of Ana Cubillo, one of the Telephone Company’s workers, who jumped to her death from floor 7th in 1934 . And then you have Goyito, the building’s ghost. During years, there had been rumours about workers of the company meeting him. But information about Goyito is quite contradictory. Is our ghost a little boy or an elder gentleman (with monocle!)? Does he appears in floor 9 or floor 13? Or in both of them? It remains unclear. -- source link
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