1900 - Cervantes House - Cartagena, Spain
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a dated building housing one of the branches of the Sabadell Bank located in Cartagena, Spain
Waymark Code: WM187AC
Location: Región de Murcia, Spain
Date Posted: 06/13/2023
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This dated building housing one of the branches of the Sabadell Bank is located in Cartagena, Spain.
Casa Cervantes (Cervantes House) was built by the famous architect Víctor Beltrí in 1900 at the popular street Calle Mayor (Main Street of Cartagena) for Serafín Cervantes Contreras, an important magnate from the mining hills of Cartagena-La Unión.
There was a cultural area and library inside the house, which currently belongs to Caja Mediterráneo. The building has four floors built in different construction materials: marble in the lower ground and central axis, artificial stones in the entries, dust-coats and pilasters, and brick in the remaining walls.
The inside was decorated by the Cartagenian sculptor Francisco Requena Hernández and the Murcian painter Antonio de la Torre. After a number of refurbishments promoted by the bank that owns the property, only the original facade of the building remains.
Address :
Banco Sabadell (Sabadell Bank)
C. Mayor, 15, 30201 Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
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