Palacio de Ripalda
The Palacio de Ripalda was a building now defunct of Eclectic style designed in 1889 by Spanish architect Joaquín María Arnau Miramón in the Spanish city of Valencia.
History
The architect Joaquín María Arnau Miramón from 1889 began an intense professional relationship with María Josefa Paulín y de la Peña, widow Countess of Ripalda,[1] which she commissioned him important works, among which the project of a palace residence for herself on the Paseo de la Alameda of Valencia. It was finished in 1891. In 1936 the move to Valencia the government of the Republic, the palace was used as headquarters of the Ministry of Commerce.
What ocurried to the building in successive years was manual: it became a romantic landscape of Valencia on the outside, but inside was suffering the natural vicissitudes of a property, that at the disappearance of its owner and change the signs of the times, it was impossible to maintain and was deteriorating.
This palace has been one of the icons of the city until it was demolished in 1967. Today, on the site occupied by the palace is a building known as La Pagoda next to the Jardines de Monforte.
Demolition
That was all part of an urban high-flying operation: the City Council, led by Mayor Adolfo Rincón de Arellano, wanted to raise in Benimamet grounds, the facilities of the new and modern Trade Fair. And for resources it had decided to demolish the old Fair, another building of the 1930s. In line with this operation, the owners of the Palacio de Ripalda also urged the demolition of the old palace shaped like a castle built in the second half of the 19th century, it was supposedly abandoned and very old.
Everything was accomplished in a few months. Scarcely had controversy and complaints in the press. The new Fair was a priority. On the site of Llano del Real, in time, the Valencian businessman of hospitality José Meliá, thought to a luxury hotel, of revolutionary design, it would take model from another, with atrium shaped, raised in Florida. But finally the project was not carried out. Two modern buildings -Jardines del Real and la Pagoda- and ended up getting up on the site of the Fair and the palace of the Marchioness of Ripalda.
Urban tale
In those years it remained entrenched in the air two legends. The first says that José Meliá not get enough financial aid of the Valencian business community to lift its hotel. The second, much more entrenched, popular and widespread, indicating that Palacio de Ripalda was taken, stone by stone, to another place, specifically the United States to be reconstructed. But there is nothing of that. To begin because the mansion, of masonry, had not ashlars although did seem out a real medieval castle.[2]
Features
The Palacio de Ripalda was a peculiar building, within a romantic perspective unprecedented in Valencia. Its construction was made between 1889 and 1891.
References
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Bibliography
- The architecture of the eclecticism in Valencia: sides of the Valencian architecture between 1875 and 1925. Benito Goerlich, D. City Hall of Valencia, 1992.
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Coordinates: 39°28′38″N 0°21′59″W / 39.4771°N 0.3665°W