SINCE 1903 Founded by Torcuato Luca de Tena   The ABC newspaper was founded on January 1, 1903 by Torcuato Luca de Tena and Álvarez Ossorio, a Sevillian journalist and businessman who had already created the illustrated magazine Blanco y Negro in 1891 (a magazine that followed the style of the elegant European and American magazines of the time), whose success was what would favor the creation of ABC. From its beginnings, the editorial line would be based on liberal-conservative thought, the defense of the Crown and the unity of Spain. Although, as an anecdote, during the civil war the Republic seized the Madrid edition, opening the full page with a curious “Long live the Republic!”. Torcuato Luca de Tena continued at the helm of ABC until 1929, the date of his death, after which his son, Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena, took charge of the newspaper; In that same year the Sevillian edition of the newspaper would appear. It is already more than 110 years of existence that have turned the ABC newspaper into the doyen of the general Spanish press, a privileged witness and narrator of national and international events. Among the many firms that have collaborated with the newspaper are those of Azorín, Julio Camba, José María Pemán, Camilo José Cela, Cándido, Julián Marías, Jaime Campmany, Alfonso Ussía and Antonio Burgos. As cartoonists, Antonio Mingote (author of the commemorative plaques for this Centennial Shops Project) is the one who is closest to the newspaper; It is not for nothing that he collaborated daily with ABC for more than half a century. Today, ABC belongs to the Vocento communication group, also publisher of a dozen leading regional newspapers, such as Correo Vasco, El Diario Montañes or El Norte de Castilla. Its headquarters are located on Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena street, to which the newspaper moved in 1989 after the sale of the historic newsroom on Serrano street.