Casa d'Escaló

Casa d'Escaló
Casa d'Escaló
	Native name; Spanish: Casa d'Escaló
Location	2, Joan Cantó St. Alcoy (Alicante), Valencian Community, Spain
Built	1906-1908
Architect	Vicente Pascual Pastor
Architectural style(s)	Valencian Art Nouveau
Spanish Property of Cultural Interest
Type	Non-movable
Criteria	Monument

Last updated March 18, 2019

The Casa d'Escaló(English: Escaló house) is a public building at 2 Joan Cantó street, 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 Vicente Pascual Pastor in 1906 and finished in 1908. It is a clear example of Valencian Art Nouveau architecture of the early twentieth century. The building is popularly known as Escaló house. The textile manufacturer from Alcoy Enrique García Peidro, known with the nickname of Escaló (step) promoted the building to shelter his residence. He was proprietary together with his brothers of the textile factory Hijos de Salvador García, more known popularly as the Escaló's factory.

Vicente Pascual Pastor was a spanish architect, one of the main architects of the Art Nouveau in Alcoy and the Valencian Art Nouveau.

It is a public building of three floors. It was rehabilitated in the decade of 1980 to shelter the Municipal Conservatoire of Music and Dance "Joan Cantó", in honor to the musician and composer from Alcoy, Joan Cantó Francés.^[2]

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References

↑ Doménech Romá, Jorge (2010). Modernismo en Alcoy, su contexto histórico y los oficios artesanales. Editorial Aguaclara. p. 327-350. ISBN 978-84-613-8233-0.
↑ Doménech Romá, Jorge (2010). Modernismo en Alcoy, su contexto histórico y los oficios artesanales. Editorial Aguaclara. p. 327-350. ISBN 978-84-613-8233-0.

Bibliography

Doménech Romá, Jorge (2010). Modernismo en Alcoy, su contexto histórico y los oficios artesanales. Editorial Aguaclara. pp. 327-350. ISBN 978-84-613-8233-0.
Jaén i Urban, Gaspar (1999). Instituto de Cultura Juan Gil-Albert, Colegio Territorial de Arquitectos de Alicante, ed. Guía de arquitectura de la provincia de Alicante. p. 14. ISBN 84-7784-353-8.

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External links

Casa d'Escaló in Alcoy Tourism (in English)

Coordinates: 38°41′44.2″N0°28′36.8″W / 38.695611°N 0.476889°W / 38.695611; -0.476889

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[1] Doménech Romá, Jorge (2010). Modernismo en Alcoy, su contexto histórico y los oficios artesanales. Editorial Aguaclara. p. 327-350. ISBN 978-84-613-8233-0.

[2] Doménech Romá, Jorge (2010). Modernismo en Alcoy, su contexto histórico y los oficios artesanales. Editorial Aguaclara. p. 327-350. ISBN 978-84-613-8233-0.