Casa Laporta

Casa Laporta
Casa Laporta
	Native name; Spanish: Casa Laporta
Location	26, País Valencià Avenue Alcoy (Alicante), Valencian Community, Spain
Built	1904
Architect	Timoteo Briet Montaud
Architectural style(s)	Valencian Art Nouveau
Spanish Property of Cultural Interest
Type	Non-movable
Criteria	Monument

Last updated March 18, 2019

The Casa Laporta(English: Laporta house) is a private building at 26 País Valencià avenue, in the city center of Alcoy (Alicante), Valencian Community, Spain. It is one of the main works of the Art Nouveau in Alcoy.^[1]

Alicante, or Alacant, is a province of eastern Spain, in the southern part of the Valencian Community. The second and third biggest cities in the Valencian Community are located in this province.

The Valencian Community is an autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous autonomous community after Andalusia, Catalonia and Madrid with more than 4.9 million inhabitants. Its homonymous capital Valencia is the third largest city and metropolitan area in Spain. It is located along the Mediterranean coast on the east side of the Iberian peninsula. It borders with Catalonia to the north, Aragon and Castilla–La Mancha to the west, and Murcia to the south. The Valencian Community consists of three provinces which are Castellón, Valencia and Alicante.

Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain(Spanish: Reino de España), is a country mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe. Its territory also includes two archipelagoes: the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa, and the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. The African enclaves of Ceuta, Melilla, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera make Spain the only European country to have a physical border with an African country (Morocco). Several small islands in the Alboran Sea are also part of Spanish territory. The country's mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar; to the north and northeast by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean.

Building

The building was designed by the Valencian architect Timoteo Briet Montaud in 1904. It is a clear example of Valencian Art Nouveau architecture of the early twentieth century. It is considered by the experts as the first work of Art Nouveau trend in Alcoy. For this reason, it would be the building that introduced the Art Nouveau style in the city.

Timoteo Briet Montaud was a spanish architect, one of the main architects of the Art Nouveau in Alcoy and the Valencian Art Nouveau.

The promoter and owner of the building was José Laporta Valor. He was brother of the Valencian painter Francisco Laporta Valor, one of the artists that introduced in Alcoy the Art Nouveau movement.

It is a private residential building of small size, with semibasement, mezzanine, three floors and garret. The interior of the building was decorated with Art Nouveau wall paintings, which must be restored.^[2]

In the building located in 30, Pais Valencià, in the same avenue, repeats itself the symmetrical form the distribution of this Timoteo Briet's front. In this case the house was projected by Jorge Vilaplana Carbonell, a master builder of eclectic style, in 1911.^[3]

In the back part of Casa Laporta we find an attached garage placed in 12, Emili Sala square, which was built in 1905 by the same architect, one year after the construction of Casa Laporta. His style is also the Art Nouveau.

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References

↑ Doménech Romá, Jorge (2010). Modernismo en Alcoy, su contexto histórico y los oficios artesanales. Editorial Aguaclara. p. 301-311. ISBN 978-84-613-8233-0.
↑ Doménech Romá, Jorge (2010). Modernismo en Alcoy, su contexto histórico y los oficios artesanales. Editorial Aguaclara. p. 301-311. ISBN 978-84-613-8233-0.
↑ File of Casa Laporta in Alcoy Tourism (in English)

Bibliography

Doménech Romá, Jorge (2010). Modernismo en Alcoy, su contexto histórico y los oficios artesanales. Editorial Aguaclara. pp. 301-311. ISBN 978-84-613-8233-0.

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Casa Laporta in Alcoy Tourism (in English)

Coordinates: 38°41′49.2″N0°28′34.0″W / 38.697000°N 0.476111°W / 38.697000; -0.476111

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[1] Doménech Romá, Jorge (2010). Modernismo en Alcoy, su contexto histórico y los oficios artesanales. Editorial Aguaclara. p. 301-311. ISBN 978-84-613-8233-0.

[2] Doménech Romá, Jorge (2010). Modernismo en Alcoy, su contexto histórico y los oficios artesanales. Editorial Aguaclara. p. 301-311. ISBN 978-84-613-8233-0.

[3] File of Casa Laporta in Alcoy Tourism (in English)