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style building with a square ground plan and with three floors and a half basement. Initially the building had two floors and a recessed floor which later became a full third floor. Prior to the construction of the entire third-floor space, the front façade was crowned in the centre by a circular
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In the 1880s, the Pontevedra City Council acquired the property of the Munaiz family located on the Gran Vía Avenue, a building plot on an avenue that had been laid out ten years earlier. It was decided to build a new building for a school of arts and crafts which eventually housed the provincial
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The building has the peculiarity that all the windows of the four façades are twinned, except for the windows of the central bodies of the front and rear façades. On the first floor of the central body of the rear façade there is a balcony with geometric decoration with four eight-pointed stars
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In 1895, the project to build the School of Arts and Crafts was launched. The work was entrusted to the architect of the Ministry of Development (Fomento) Arturo Calvo Tomelén, who had designed buildings such as the Palace of
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Calvo (now the Brazilian Embassy in Madrid). In November 1895 Arturo Calvo completed his project. The works were awarded on 1 May 1896 to the Madrid builder García Dios. The building was built opposite the
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instead of balustrades, and on the front façade there is a balcony with five floral motifs. All the windows on the first floor are crowned with geometric decoration in the centre of the
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The facade has the traditional two-colour scheme of fine reddish and pinkish bricks and granite, including the decorative stone details around the windows and the
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The interior of the building was successively remodelled to adapt the facilities to different uses, first educational, then administrative.
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Until the end of the 19th century, the women's teacher training school was located in Pontevedra in the baroque
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Building of the Official Association of Building Engineers and Technical Architects of Pontevedra
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The total cost of the project was over 260,000 pesetas. In 1903 the building was used as the
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which had been inaugurated in 1890. The building was completed and inaugurated in 1901.
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Higher School for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property in Galicia
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building of the former Pontevedra Normal School of Pontevedra
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as well as the provincial high school at different times.
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With the transfer of the Provincial Education Office to
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in 2008 to the new building in the twin towers of the
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Façade of the Pontevedra former Normal School Building
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Antiguo Edificio de la Escuela Normal de Pontevedra
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Pontevedra
Coordinates
42°25′46.9″N 8°38′56.0″W / 42.429694°N 8.648889°W / 42.429694; -8.648889
pesetas
Official website
Pontevedra
Galician
Gran Vía de Montero Ríos
Alameda de Pontevedra
Palm Trees Park
pazo of the García Flórez family
Pontevedra Museum
Pazo of Mugartegui
teacher training school
Joaquín Sánchez de Toca
Palace of the Deputation of Pontevedra
Provincial High School of Pontevedra
Campolongo
Galician Government
Pontevedra Provincial Council
eclectic
pilasters
Pontevedra bullring
lintels
Ionic
pilasters
coat of arms of Spain
Main façade
Main façade

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