Pontevedra Normal School Building

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Pontevedra Normal School Building
Antiguo Edificio de la Escuela Normal de Pontevedra
Pontevedra - Diputación de Pontevedra, edificio administrativo.jpg
Façade of the Pontevedra former Normal School Building
General information
TypeGovernment building
LocationPontevedra, Galicia, Spain
Coordinates42°25′46.9″N 8°38′56.0″W / 42.429694°N 8.648889°W / 42.429694; -8.648889Coordinates: 42°25′46.9″N 8°38′56.0″W / 42.429694°N 8.648889°W / 42.429694; -8.648889
Construction started1895
Completed1899
Opening1901
Cost260,000 pesetas
OwnerDeputation of Pontevedra
ManagementDeputation of Pontevedra
Technical details
Floor count3
Design and construction
ArchitectArturo Calvo Tomelén
Website
Official website

The building of the former Pontevedra Normal School of Pontevedra (Teacher Training College and Arts and Crafts), in Pontevedra, Spain, is an eclectic building from the end of the 19th century that was the headquarters of the teacher training college of this Galician city. It is located on the Gran Vía de Montero Ríos, between the Alameda de Pontevedra and the Palm Trees Park.

History[]

Until the end of the 19th century, the women's teacher training school was located in Pontevedra in the baroque pazo of the García Flórez family (today owned by the Pontevedra Museum) and the men's teacher training school was located in the Pazo of Mugartegui, or pazo of the Counts of Fefiñáns.

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 mixed teacher training school.

In 1895, the project to build the Normal Institute of Teachers and Arts and Crafts (popularly known as the Normal school) 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 Joaquín Sánchez de Toca Calvo (now the Brazilian Embassy in Madrid). In November 1895 Arturo Calvo completed his project and work began. The building was inaugurated 4 years later, in 1899, opposite the Palace of the Deputation of Pontevedra which had been inaugurated in 1890. The official reception of the building took place in 1901.[1]

The total cost of the project was over 260,000 pesetas. In 1903 the building was used as the Provincial High School of Pontevedra, to put an end to the numerous expenses incurred by the repairs of the old Jesuit College. Over the years, its function changed and it temporarily became the city's women's high school in the late 1960s. From the 1970s onwards it was the seat of the provincial education office.[1]

With the transfer of the Provincial Education Office to Campolongo in 2008 to the new building in the twin towers of the Galician Government, the building lost its function as the Provincial Education Office and was handed over to the Pontevedra Provincial Council, which renovated it inside. It was inaugurated as the administrative building of the Provincial Council of Pontevedra on 11 February 2011.[2]

Description[]

It is a large eclectic style building with three floors and a half basement. Initially the building had two floors and a recessed floor which later became a full third floor.[1]

The facade has the traditional two-colour scheme of fine reddish and pinkish bricks and granite, including the decorative stone details around the windows.[1] It is surrounded by a granite base. The façade was originally crowned by an arch which disappeared when the third floor was rebuilt.

The bricks, which were very fashionable at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century on the façades, came from the old brick factory of La Barca, very close to A Caeira.[1] They can also be found on the façade of the Pontevedra bullring.[3]

The interior of the building was successively remodelled to adapt the facilities to different uses, first educational, then administrative.[4] · [5]

Gallery[]

  • Main façade

  • Main façade

  • East side façade

  • Coat of arms

  • East façade

  • Rear façade

  • West façade

  • Main façade

  • Entrance

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e "Ladrillo de lujo". Faro (in Spanish). 10 February 2011.
  2. ^ Honorato, Víctor (8 February 2011). "La Diputación de Pontevedra gasta 670.000 euros en su segunda sede". El País (in Spanish).
  3. ^ "EL COSO DE SAN ROQUE: las plazas de toros con más encanto". Por Soleá, Spanish Culture & Tradition (in Spanish). 27 June 2018.
  4. ^ Honorato, Víctor (8 February 2011). "La Diputación de Pontevedra gasta 670.000 euros en su segunda sede". El País (in Spanish).
  5. ^ "La Diputación diseña un túnel para conectar su sede con la vieja delegación de Educación". Faro (in Spanish). 16 July 2009.

Bibliography[]

  • Aganzo, Carlos (2010). Pontevedra. Ciudades con encanto (in Spanish). Madrid: El País-Aguilar. p. 92. ISBN 978-8403509344.
  • Fontoira Surís, Rafael (2009). Pontevedra monumental (in Spanish). Pontevedra: Diputación Provincial de Pontevedra. p. 425. ISBN 978-84-8457-327-2.
  • Riveiro Tobío, Elvira (2008). Descubrir Pontevedra (in Spanish). Pontevedra: Edicións do Cumio. p. 48. ISBN 9788482890852.

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