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Buildings:
Market "El Rengle" (The
Row) Boada House Parera
House Palau House Sisternes
House Slaughterhouse
Mataró
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That small food market is a
long building located in the center of a square. The initial project to
build it, was made by the architect Emili Cabanyes in
1891. In 1893, Josep Puig i Cadafalch reformed
the roof with new ceramic and forged iron ornamentation.
Visits are more interesting when the market is open.
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Building projected by the
architect and mestre d'obres - building master - Jeroni Boada and
built around 1870.
Recently restored, the building has some Arabic elements and the façade
show a big fantasy. In each corner it is a round turret with columns
supporting a roof in Arabic tiles. The house is also covered by
different roofs and the ensemble is toped by a dome with a four square
belvedere. In fact this building was built before the Art
Nouveau period in Catalonia, but it show some of the elements incorporated
later by this style.
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Built in 1894 following
a project of Josep Puig i Cadafalch, that house
is one of the first to show the genius of that Art Nouveau
architect.
The building is crowned by neo-gothic sculptures attributed to Eusebi
Arnau The façade show also an iron forged balustrade on balcony.
The façade is also decorated with flowers and vegetal elements over an
imitation of bricks.
Visits are not allowed to the interior.
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The architect of that
building is unknown. Nevertheless the house has in its interior some Art Nouveau
elements.
The exterior decoration under the roof remember the Lombard Romanesque style.
Visits are not allowed to the interior.
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That is probably the
first house designed by Josep Puig i Cadafalch
the year he was graduate as architect in 1891.
This is a simple building designed to be rented, with two levels and a
narrow courtyard in the back. The most interesting part is the ceramic
decoration specially over the openings on first floor.
The first owner was the surgeon Ernest de Sisternes i Bruguera, also
musicien and composer.
Visits not allowed.
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That ensemble of
buildings projected by the architect Melcior de Palau i Simon in 1914
was designed as a municipal slaughter house.
The ensemble has three aisles linked by porches, yards, a warden house
and a water elevated reservoir, all them built in Art Nouveau
style.
This is an interesting example of industrial Art Nouveau, and is at
present used as municipal depot administration premises.
The aisles design is
simple with columns made in brick, walls in stucco with windows
carefully designed showing some ceramic decoration.
The enclosure in
forged iron is very interesting specially around the main gate.
The octagonal elevated reservoir is also decorated with ceramic designs
and on the top with series of three windows made in brick in each side,
in total twenty four windows all covered by a roof in Arabic tiles.
Because the mentioned use of this buildings as municipal depot premises,
visits are not allowed.
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The building
of Mataró Municipality is older than Art Nouveau
period, but the roof of
Sessions Hall was designed by Puig i Cadafalch in
1893, when that architect was the municipal architect of Mataró.
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Building projected as a
children school by the architect Eduard Ferrés i Puig in 1906 and
finished in 1912.
This beautiful building has three floors and is used at present as a
third age residence. The decoration in ceramic and forged iron is
typical of Art Nouveau.
The graffito's on outside walls encircling the windows show a big
originality out of the standard Modernism shapes.
The roof over-flow the walls with a gable-end supported by decorated
brackets.
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