Before Hollywood and Tijuana, he reshaped Shanghai—explore the extraordinary, border-crossing career of Spanish architect Abelardo Lafuente.

From July 2026, the Interactive Lafuente Legacy Maps reedited in China from those we shared in September 2024 for the Instituto Cervantes of Shanghai, are showcased at the front facade, describing the Spanish architecture imprint in the city! We are pleased to share with you the new cultural activity launched by the Cervantes Institute in collaboration with this project - the "Lafuente Shanghai Urban Route" digital map. Through the careful design of this project and the full

The inauguration of the new Abelardo Lafuente Garcia-rojo Promenade in his hometown on June 11, 2026, was a landmark event in the history of this research, given its significance for the recognition in Spain of this figure so important to the cultural and architectural relations between two countries so distant yet so intimately linked in their history spanning several centuries and the first globalization they fostered by facilitating the first global exchanges between conti