Pazo de Lourizán

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Lourizán Palace
Pazo de Lourizán
Pontevedra-Pazo de Montero Ríos en Lourizán (18780770493).jpg
General information
TypePalace
LocationPontevedra, Galicia, Spain
Coordinates42°24′34″N 8°39′53″W / 42.40944°N 8.66472°W / 42.40944; -8.66472Coordinates: 42°24′34″N 8°39′53″W / 42.40944°N 8.66472°W / 42.40944; -8.66472
Completed19th century
OwnerDeputation of Pontevedra
ManagementXunta de Galicia
Technical details
Floor count3
Design and construction
ArchitectJenaro de la Fuente Domínguez
Website
Official website

The Palace of Lourizán is a manor house in Herbalonga in the civil parish of Lourizán, in Pontevedra, Spain.

History[]

In the 15th century this property was transformed into a farm.[1] The circular crenellated dovecote dates from this period.

In the 19th century, the palace belonged to Buenaventura Marcó de el Pont, after he bought it from the heirs of Francisco Genaro Ángel, the brother of his wife. It was later converted into a main residence and a summer cottage when Eugenio Montero Ríos lived there.[2] The Treaty of Paris was signed in its rooms after the war with the United States in 1898, in which Spain lost Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines.[3]

The Provincial Council of Pontevedra bought it in the early 1940s from the Provincial Savings Bank of Pontevedra and (a fifth) from the widowed Marquise of Alhucema.[4] In 1943, she handed it over to the Ministry of Education to be used as a regional centre for teaching, research and forestry experiments, and in 1946 it became a higher technical school of forestry.[5]

It is currently integrated into the Centre for Sustainable Development of the Regional Ministry of the Environment since 1991. The main objectives of the Environmental and Forestry Research Centre of Lourizán are the protection, conservation and improvement of Galicia's forestry heritage.[6]

Description[]

The building[]

The palace building is the work of Jenaro de la Fuente Domínguez.[7] It is accessed by an imperial stone staircase guarded by statues representing virtues, values and devotions.[8] The central part is enhanced by a coat of arms and a clock,[9] in the place where the coats of arms of Galician manors are usually found. In the lower part, there is a balcony and a terrace that serves as a viewpoint and, below, a cave hidden behind the vegetation, wich simulates a volcanic limestone cave called Cave of Mirrors.[10]

The interior is accessed through a simple door with the initials of its former owners, "E and A", "Eugenio and Avelina". The building has two lighter side wings. The columns, balconies and ornaments show classical resources. At the top, a terrace occupies an important part of the surface.

The estate[]

The manor house has 54 hectares of gardens and groves, which show the different uses to which it has been put over the centuries: farm, seigneurial botanical garden and forestry research centre.

Many native trees grow here, such as oaks, chestnuts and Birches, sycamores and introduced and exotic trees,[11] such as Cypresses, Araucarias, cedars, magnolias or common privet, many of which were brought by French gardeners. Several of these trees are included in the Catalogue of Singular Trees of the Galician Government. There are arboretums with all varieties of chestnut trees, pines, eucalyptus or camellias, with the tallest specimen in the world, a 20.5 metre tall Japanese camellia. There is also a rimu from New Zealand and a small Taiwanese garden.[12]

Around the palace there are granaries on stilts, a 15th century dovecote, a glass greenhouse with an iron structure from 1900, a one-piece granite table (apparently extracted from a rock on the island of Tambo), white marble statues and several fountains, such as that of the Shell, that of the Three Channels, that of the Patio and that of the Cave of Mirrors. The estate is organised into avenues: the Camellia Avenue, the Eucalyptus Avenue and the Cave of Mirrors Avenue.[13] · [14]

The art nouveau greenhouse from the early 20th century is made of glass and wrought iron and the Galician attic with its threshing floor and dryer has 16 feet.

Gallery[]

  • Détail of the façade

  • The palace in front of the great cedar

  • Fountain

  • Corridor inside the palace

  • The windows of the pazo in the background from the grove

  • Side of the façade with the staircase and the door

  • Glasshouse in the palace garden

  • Façade with solainas

  • Perron and camellias

  • View of the main façade from the staircase

  • Sculpture in the garden

  • Gardens with azaleas and palm trees

  • Magnolia

  • Caves in the garden

  • Camellia Alley

  • Granite table in the garden under the pergola. The stone may come from a rock on Tambo Island

  • Façade

  • Perron

  • Hedge and flower bed

References[]

  1. ^ "Los Roteiros de Outono recalan en los pazos de Lourizán y Salcedo". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 21 October 2017.
  2. ^ "Pazo de Lourizán, la antigua residencia de Montero Ríos". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 25 July 2003.
  3. ^ "El Pazo de Lourizán resurgía de la ruina y recuperaba su belleza tras su restauración". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 22 January 2016.
  4. ^ "La Xunta seguirá al frente del Pazo de Lourizán al menos durante un año más". Diario de Pontevedra (in Spanish). 8 May 2021.
  5. ^ "Los Roteiros de Outono recalan en los pazos de Lourizán y Salcedo". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 21 October 2017.
  6. ^ "Un paraíso forestal lleno de historia". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 27 August 2015.
  7. ^ "El infinito jardín del ministro antojadizo en Pontevedra: de una cueva «volcánica» a 700 especies". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 9 October 2021.
  8. ^ "Los Roteiros de Outono recalan en los pazos de Lourizán y Salcedo". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 21 October 2017.
  9. ^ "El reloj del Pazo Lourizán da la hora tras 100 años parado". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 21 December 2016.
  10. ^ "El infinito jardín del ministro antojadizo en Pontevedra: de una cueva «volcánica» a 700 especies". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 9 October 2021.
  11. ^ "Un paraíso forestal lleno de historia". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 27 August 2015.
  12. ^ "El infinito jardín del ministro antojadizo en Pontevedra: de una cueva «volcánica» a 700 especies". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 9 October 2021.
  13. ^ "Los Roteiros de Outono recalan en los pazos de Lourizán y Salcedo". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 21 October 2017.
  14. ^ "10 sitios que enamoran". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 10 February 2020.

Bibliography[]

  • Aganzo, Carlos (2010). Pontevedra. Ciudades con encanto (in Spanish). Madrid: El País-Aguilar. p. 114-115. ISBN 978-8403509344.
  • Arcay Barral, Angel (et altri) (2017). Presentación para la protección del Pazo de Lourizán (in Spanish). Pontevedra: Asociación de amigos de Museo de Pontevedra.
  • Fontoira Surís, Rafael (2009). Pontevedra monumental (in Spanish). Pontevedra: Diputación Provincial de Pontevedra. p. 466-469. ISBN 978-84-8457-327-2.
  • Riveiro Tobío, Elvira (2008). Descubrir Pontevedra (in Spanish). Pontevedra: Edicións do Cumio. pp. 86–87. ISBN 9788482890852.

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