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On Passeig de Gràcia 11 , in the Dreta de l'Eixample, the Generali building houses the largest H&M clothing brand store in Spain. Before, the imposing block fulfilled several functions. Built between 1946 and 1949 under the supervision of the architect Lluís Bonet Garí, it consists of 16 floors. "The plans for this building, whose style is influenced by the Chicago School, date back to 1935, but the civil war stopped the construction," recalls historian Ricard Fernández Valentí. The Count of Gamazo invested in its construction as the new headquarters of the Life Bank, in January 1950, on the site previously occupied by the Palacio de Samá. The building wanted to convey the idea of prestige and security: the walls are double brick and the facade is adorned with Montjuïc stone statues. "The wonderful golden metallic doors are signed by Biosca i Botey", continues Fernández. In addition to the Life Bank, the building had spaces on the ground floor for 22 stores, show rooms and a cinema, all related to each other thanks to the Galería Condal . Fernández remembers that the press of the time spoke of the rooms of the building as some of the most prestigious in Barcelona.
Since 2009, the building belongs to the Generali Group.
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The Plaza de España ("Spain Square", in English) is a plaza in the Parque de María Luisa (Maria Luisa Park), in Seville, Spain, built in 1928 for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929. It is a landmark example of the Regionalism Architecture, mixing elements of the Baroque Revival, Renaissance Revival and Moorish Revival (Neo-Mudéjar) styles of Spanish architecture.
In 1929, Seville hosted the Ibero-American Exposition World's Fair, located in the celebrated Maria Luisa Park (Parque de María Luisa). The park gardens were designed by Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier. The entire southern end of the city was redeveloped into an expanse of gardens and grand boulevards. The centre of it is Parque de María Luisa, a "Moorish paradisical style" with a half mile of tiled fountains, pavilions, walls, ponds, benches, and exhedras; lush plantings of palms, orange trees, Mediterranean pines, and stylized flower beds; and with vine hidden bowers. Numerous buildings were constructed in it for the exhibition.
The Plaza de España, designed by Aníbal González, was a principal building built on the Maria Luisa Park's edge to showcase Spain's industry and technology exhibits. González combined a mix of 1920s Art Deco and Spanish Renaissance Revival, Spanish Baroque Revival and Neo-Mudéjar styles. The Plaza de España complex is a huge half-circle with buildings continually running around the edge accessible over the moat by numerous bridges representing the four ancient kingdoms of Spain. In the centre is the Vicente Traver fountain. By the walls of the Plaza are many tiled alcoves, each representing a different province of Spain. Each alcove is flanked by a pair of covered bookshelves, said to be used by visitors in the manner of "Little Free Library". Each bookshelf often contains information about their province, yet you can often find regular books as well for some people have taken to donating their favorite book to these shelves.
Today the Plaza de España mainly consists of Government buildings. The central government departments, with sensitive adaptive redesign, are located within it. The Plaza's tiled Alcoves of the Provinces are backdrops for visitors' portrait photographs, taken in their own home province's alcove. Towards the end of the park, the grandest mansions from the fair have been adapted as museums. The farthest contains the city's archaeology collections. The main exhibits are Roman mosaics and artefacts from nearby Italica.
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A canopy resting on wreathed columns in black marble protects a calvary, with Christ on the cross.
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The Palau de Lloctinent was built in 1549–1557 by Antoni Carbonell, in late Gothic-Renaissance style as the residence of the Viceroy (Lloctinent) of Catalonia. Also from this period is the so-called Mirador of King Martin, a five-storey tower on a rectangular plan (1555).
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