Pedro Zaragoza

Pedro Zaragoza local (* May 15, 1922; † 1 April 2008 Benidorm) was a Spanish politician.

He was from 1950 to 1967 mayor of Benidorm, which was to Begin his tenure still a fishing village. Zaragoza had asphalt roads from 1950, equipped the village with a water supply system and put a development plan before 1956. Until 1967, especially high-rise buildings with hotels for mass tourism were built in Benidorm, which characterize the city today and the Beniorm made ​​it a famous holiday destination. Special recognition reached Zaragoza in the 50s by its unauthorized lifting of the ban bikini on the beaches of Benidorm. In the ensuing scandal bikini carrying tourists by members of the Guardia Civil were taken away from the beach. Zaragoza was threatened on the part of the Catholic Archbishop of excommunication and even some members of the City Council and even government ministers opposed the " moral decay ". Zaragoza now made ​​the decision to personally contact Franco. This he could persuade them to repeal the then in force in Spain Bikini ban on beaches.

After his career Mayor Zaragoza worked as a businessman. In the period 1961-1977 he was a deputy in the Spanish parliament. Zaragoza died on 1 April 2008 in a hospital in Benidorm from heart failure.