Gobierno Civil de Pontevedra
government building in Pontevedra, Spain
The Gobierno Civil de Pontevedra, currently Subdelegación del Gobierno de Pontevedra, is an official building located in Pontevedra, Galicia (Spain). It has served since its construction as the government delegation office representing the Spanish state in the province of Pontevedra.
Location
The building is located in the centre of the city's political power, in the northwest corner of the Alameda de Pontevedra, next to the Plaza de España, very close to other institutional buildings such as the Pontevedra City Hall, the Valle-Inclán High School, the Faculty of Fine Arts and the Pontevedra Provincial Council Palace.
History
In 1833, the Spanish government appointed as the first provincial authority a State representative in each of the capitals of the Spanish provinces and in Pontevedra, his seat was until 1891 the convent of San Francisco. Until 1997, the name of this representative was "Civil Governor", when it was renamed "Sub-delegate of the Government". Such an important political position required a building in keeping with the nature of the institution it represented. For this reason, from 1939 onwards, the General Direction of Architecture of the Spanish State implemented a plan so that the seats of the so-called civil governments that housed the civil governor in each province would have the decorum and dignity required by this institution.
In Galicia, the civil government building in Pontevedra, designed by the architect Enrique López-Izquierdo Blanco, was the last of the four Galician provinces to be built between 1950 and 1958. Following the premises of the Spanish State, the Pontevedra City Council ceded an isolated rectangular plot of land in the most dignified non-commercial square in the city (the Plaza de España), where the seats of the municipal (Pontevedra City Hall) and provincial (Pontevedra Provincial Council) authorities were to co-exist in the same space.
In 1945, the architect P. Durán presented a first project in which the main façade of the Civil Government faced the Plaza de España, which was rejected by the municipal authorities.
“Gobierno Civil de Pontevedra” enters the record as government building in Pontevedra, Spain. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gobierno, Civil and Pontevedra can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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