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The Palacio de Ripalda was a building now defunct of Eclectic style designed in 1889 by Spanish architect Joaquín María Arnau Miramón in the Spanish city of Valencia.
History
The architect Joaquín María Arnau Miramón from 1889 began an intense professional relationship with María Josefa Paulín y de la Peña, widow Countess of Ripalda,[1] which she commissioned him important works, among which the project of a palace residence for herself on the Paseo de la Alameda of Valencia. It was finished in 1891. In 1936 the move to Valencia the government of the Republic, the palace was used as headquarters of the Ministry of Commerce. This palace has been one of the icons of the city until it was demolished in 1967. Today, on the site occupied by the palace is a building known as La Pagoda next to the Jardines de Monforte.
Features
The Palacio de Ripalda was a peculiar building, within a romantic perspective unprecedented in Valencia. Its construction is between 1889 and 1891.
References
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Bibliography
- The architecture of the eclecticism in Valencia: sides of the Valencian architecture between 1875 and 1925. Benito Goerlich, D. City Hall of Valencia, 1992.