Pontevedra Normal School Building
eclectic style building in Pontevedra, Spain
The building of the former Pontevedra Normal School of Pontevedra (Teacher Training College and Arts and Crafts), in Pontevedra, Spain, is an eclectic building from the end of the 19th century that was the headquarters of the teacher training college of this Galician city. It is located on the Gran Vía de Montero Ríos, between the Alameda de Pontevedra and the Palm Trees Park.
History
Until the end of the 19th century, the women's teacher training school was located in Pontevedra in the baroque pazo of the García Flórez family (today owned by the Pontevedra Museum) and the men's teacher training school was located in the Pazo of Mugartegui, or pazo of the Counts of Fefiñáns.
In the 1880s, the Pontevedra City Council acquired the property of the Munaiz family located on the Gran Vía Avenue, a building plot on an avenue that had been laid out ten years earlier. It was decided to build a new building for a school of arts and crafts which eventually housed the provincial teacher training school as well as the provincial high school at different times.
In 1895, the project to build the School of Arts and Crafts was launched. The work was entrusted to the architect of the Ministry of Development (Fomento) Arturo Calvo Tomelén, who had designed buildings such as the Palace of Joaquín Sánchez de Toca Calvo (now the Brazilian Embassy in Madrid). In November 1895 Arturo Calvo completed his project. The works were awarded on 1 May 1896 to the Madrid builder García Dios. The building was built opposite the Palace of the Deputation of Pontevedra which had been inaugurated in 1890.
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