The Casa Vilaplana ''(''Vilaplana house'')'' is a private building at 8 Joan Cantó street in the city center of
Alcoy
Alcoy ( ca-valencia, Alcoi) is an industrial and university city, region and municipality located in the Valencian Community, Spain. The Serpis river crosses the municipal boundary of Alcoy. The local authority reported a population of 61,135 re ...
(
Alicante
Alicante ( ca-valencia, Alacant) is a city and municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean port. The population of the city was 337,482 , the second-largest in th ...
),
Valencian Community
The Valencian Community ( ca-valencia, Comunitat Valenciana, es, Comunidad Valenciana) is an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous Spanish Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous comm ...
, Spain.
Building
The building was designed by the Valencian architect
Vicente Pascual Pastor
Vicente Juan Pascual Pastor (Alcoy, June 3, 1865 – Alcoy, February 2, 1941) was a spanish architect, one of the main architects of the Art Nouveau in Alcoy and the Valencian Art Nouveau.
Biography
Vicente Pascual Pastor was formed in the Bar ...
in 1906. It is an example of
Valencian Art Nouveau
Valencian Art Nouveau ( es, modernismo valenciano, ca-valencia, modernisme valencià), is the historiographic denomination given to an art and literature movement associated with the Art Nouveau in the Valencian Community, i ...
architecture of the early twentieth century.
It was commissioned by Enrique Vilaplana Juliá, president of the Alcoy's Savings bank, for his reivate residence. In the proximities it got up with posteriority realized by the same architect, the headquarters of the banking entity.
File in the "Art Nouveau Route of Alcoy". Alcoy Tourism.
/ref>
The entire facade is made of masonry with a very singular design. The building has two floors.
References
Bibliography
* Doménech Romá, Jorge (2010). Modernismo en Alcoy, su contexto histórico y los oficios artesanales. Editorial Aguaclara. pp. 319–326. .
See also
* Art Nouveau in Alcoy
Art Nouveau in Alcoy ( es, modernismo en Alcoy, ca-valencia, modernisme en Alcoi), as one of the main focuses of the Valencian Art Nouveau, is the historiographic denomination given to an art and literature movement associated with the Art ...
External links
Casa Vilaplana in Alcoy Tourism
{{coord, 38, 41, 43, N, 0, 28, 36, W, type:landmark, display=title
Art Nouveau architecture in Alcoy
1906 establishments in Spain