A history of Gas in Alicante

The gas industry in Alicante begins in an early 1857 by the hand of the Marquis of Salamanca, then went through a long French phase with the General Credit Company in Spain, and then, the Madrid Company of Lighting and Gas Heating, until the appearance in 1923 of Gas Alicante, SA that will explode the factory, of gas production from coal, being realized the definitive closing in 1961. The text by Dionisio García de la Fuente, experienced author in the history of the gas industry, introduces us with agility and excellence in the civic context of Alicante from the primitive lighting by oil of the streets until the arrival of natural gas.