Spain

Trinidad Garcia, c1939. Events in Europe prompted great changes in the cultural and industrial landscape of the north.

Paronella Park, Spanish Castle of the North, 1953

Mena Creek, QLD

Australia

17° 39' 17.9676" S, 145° 57' 23.4576" E

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1 January 1953

11 January 2013

Location

Mena Creek, QLD

Australia

17° 39' 17.9676" S, 145° 57' 23.4576" E

See map: Google Maps

11 January 2013

Cairns

G.K. Bolton

Tourist map of Cairns & Innisfail showing Paronella Park, 1953

Mena Creek, QLD

Australia

17° 39' 17.9676" S, 145° 57' 23.4576" E

See map: Google Maps

1 January 1953

11 January 2013

Location

Mena Creek, QLD

Australia

17° 39' 17.9676" S, 145° 57' 23.4576" E

See map: Google Maps

11 January 2013

Cairns

G.K. Bolton

Interwar Spanish mission style home, Durack, Brisbane, 1972. Spanish-style homes proliferated in post-war Queensland, recalling an image of Spain that was Utopian and pre-industrial.

Collection of the John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Letter from Australia, Salvador Torrents. One of a long-running series of articles titled ‘Letter from Australia’ and published in the New York newspaper Cultura Proletaria.

Salvador Torrents Papers, ST5/18, James Cook University Special Collection, nd.

Paronella Park. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, 110320

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Paronella Park, 1953

Mena Creek, QLD

Australia

17° 39' 17.9676" S, 145° 57' 23.4576" E

See map: Google Maps

1 January 1953

11 January 2013

Location

Mena Creek, QLD

Australia

17° 39' 17.9676" S, 145° 57' 23.4576" E

See map: Google Maps

11 January 2013

Cairns

G.K. Bolton

Paronella Park was designed to evoke the cultural and physical landscape of Spanish migrants’ heritage. It quickly became a favourite destination for all ethnic groups.