A New Apple Store in Spain Is Being Built on 15th Century Ruins

Here ’s a fun game : archeological dig or build a new Apple Store ? In at least one lawsuit , the answer is both . In what ’s supposed to be the cellar of a new Apple Store in Madrid , workers haveuncovered a 15th 100 infirmary .

While renovate a building the building at 1 Puerta del Sol , the construction team found the outer bulwark of the Buen Suceso infirmary , which was tear down in 1854 in favor of expanding the Puerta del Sol . Some of the ruins had already been discovered in 2009 , when a newfangled train station was being erected . This come up delayed the construction of the rail station by 10 calendar month , and the wall is now preserved behind chalk panels . But Apple is still cover through with build its eleventh Spain location . And while it has uphold historical face of other stores ( take its Paris Louvre location , for example ) , that might not be the caseful with these hospital wall .

Permits for the new store were make out before anyone was cognizant of the ruins , and apparently the director of Madrid ’s Heritage Department told Apple it could just work up the new floor to “ symbolically ” mime the lines of the sure-enough walls . repose history , now please everyone purchase some iPads . [ El Paísvia9to5Mac ]

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