Palace of Marivent

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Palace of Marivent
Palacio de Marivent
Palace of Marivent
General information
Town or cityCala Mayor, Palma de Mallorca
Country Spain
Construction started1923
Completed1925
Client Spanish royal family
Owner Government of the Balearic Islands
Design and construction
Architect(s)Guillem Forteza Pinya

The Palace of Marivent (which in English means Palace of Sea and Wind) is a modern palace built in the 1920s and located in the tourist area of Cala Mayor in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Since the 1970s, this palace has been the summer residence of the Spanish royal family, although their official residence in the Balearic Islands is the Royal Palace of La Almudaina. This is also the favourite palace of Queen Sofía, being the place where she lives most of the year. [1]

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Unlike the official residence of the Royal Palace of La Almudaina, Marivent does not belong to the set of residences of the Spanish royal family property of the Patrimonio Nacional state agency, but its ownership corresponds to the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands. Despite this nature of a private residence, the Marivent Palace has served, on many occasions, as a setting for the receptions and interviews that the monarch offers both the prime minister of Spain and other international authorities.

History

King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia meet prime minister Pedro Sanchez and his wife, Begona Gomez, at Marivent Palace in August 2018. Los Reyes con el Presidente del Gobierno y su esposa.jpg
King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia meet prime minister Pedro Sánchez and his wife, Begoña Gómez, at Marivent Palace in August 2018.

The property was designed by the architect Guillem Forteza Pinya between 1923 and 1925, commissioned by the painter Juan de Saridakis, who lived there until his death. [2] His widow, Anunciación Marconi Taffani, gave the building and its land to the Balearic Provincial Council in 1966, on condition that a museum be created bearing the name of the painter, and that it remained open to the public.

These conditions were met until 1973 when the Provincial Council ceded the estate to the then Princes of Spain (Juan Carlos and Sofía), a fact that caused the descendants of Saridakis to sue the provincial authorities to the courts for non-compliance with the conditions of transfer, and to recover the movable property of the interior of the palace belonging to his family. [3]

However, sources of the autonomous government in the 1980s, on which the palace depended, declared that "We are relatively little concerned that these goods are taken, since they have little value", forty million pesetas not the three billion that the heirs of painter Juan de Saridakis claimed. [4]

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References

  1. Taulés, Silvia (2018-07-20). "Marivent al descubierto: todos los detalles del refugio favorito de la reina Sofía" [Marivent uncovered: all the details of Queen Sofía's favorite refuge]. El Confidencial (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-07-07.
  2. "Marivent, Monumento de Interés Locali" [Marivent, Monument of local interest]. ABC (in Spanish). Madrid. 1974-08-21. p. 26. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
  3. Yoldi, José (1988-06-27). "El Supremo ordena entregar a los herederos de Saridakis los bienes de Marivent" [The Supreme Court orders the delivery of Marivent's assets to the heirs of Saridakis]. El País (in Spanish). ISSN   1134-6582 . Retrieved 2022-07-07.
  4. Caimari, Joan A. (1988-06-27). "Objetos de escaso valor" [Items of little value]. El País (in Spanish). ISSN   1134-6582 . Retrieved 2020-08-12.