The modernist fragrance of Gulías - Ourense, Galicia, España
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N 42° 20.383 W 007° 52.004
29T E 593354 N 4688117
This centenary building has become an icon of the city. It is the modernist echo of Daniel Vázquez Gulías and of an era, that of the incipient bourgeoisie that wanted to leave a presence. Lack of use and neglect put it in danger.
Waymark Code: WM1362W
Location: Galicia, Spain
Date Posted: 09/24/2020
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There were airs of change. The money in the hands of an incipient bourgeoisie that traded wholesale thrived and with it the desire to leave a presence in the urban planning of the city. In the heat of the new Vigo-Villacastín road (1861-1863), Ourense was filled with stores and shops, its past as a medieval city sheltered inwardly closed doors was settled and the future was considered. Back, the hygienist past around sanitation, to follow European models of parks and gardens, with sculptural landmarks on pedestals. Modernity had come to stay, in the form of buildings with beautiful balconies, wooden galleries and carved granite facades; all to the passage of the streets and groups of blocks that were being generated.
The architecture was a thing of three names, José Antonio Queralt, Antonio Crespo and Daniel Vázquez Gulías; to the latter, a municipal and episcopal architect, they owe some of the most unique buildings that still - luckily - persist, including the vision that we conserve of the surroundings such as the Alameda, including the music park, or the vision of the whole from the Plaza de Santa Eufemia are his inheritance.
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