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What makes it so unique Cartagena?
According to Mayor Pilar Barreiro, its architecture.
Indeed, the first municipal authority has emphasized in his speech tonight in homage to the 150th anniversary of the Art Nouveau architect Victor Beltrí in buildings as significant for the city as the Casa Llagostera, the Grand Hotel and the Palace of Aguirre.
Some of the elements that make us know Cartagena is the work, imagination and talent of Beltrí, stressed during his speech.
Barreiro made ​​a brief tour of the biography of the architect Tarragona who lived during the 40's in Cartagena. Cartagena was a city ravaged by war and needed to put back cantonal, Barreiro said before Beltrí indicate that reconstruction was part of both Cartagena needed at the time and designed the Cervantes House, located on Main Street.
But Victor Beltrí not only is the author of properties that are located in the center of the city such as Grand Hotel, Casa Cervantes, the Casino, the Palacio Aguirre, Friends of the Sacred Heart of Jesus or the rebuilding of the Cathedral Santa María la Vieja.
Beltrí's work is much broader.
à ‰ l was the creator of the Race Club and Villa Calamari, also known as Versailles Mansion, among others.
The first municipal authority has taken the opportunity to announce the decision of the City Council to magnify the name of the architect and include it in the street of the city.
Thus, the northern bypass was renamed Victor Beltrí.
The event continued with a concert by the musical group Sauces. The band, led by Jaime Belda has performed works of the time as the pasodoble The Fan, in Javaloyes, Tannhauser, Wagner, Aida, in Verdi, Cavalleria Rusticana, of Mascagni, the Spanish Suite of Albeniz, the drum of the grenadiers, and the paso doble Chapi Sighs of Spain, the Master à Alvarez.
The event concluded with the opening by the mayor of the photographic exhibition of Abel F.
Ros , I saw Legacy Be, on the most emblematic buildings of Victor Beltrí.
The commemoration of this anniversary has been driven by Victor Beltrí citizen commission, created for this purpose with the intention of claiming the key role of the architect and pay the unpayable debt he owes to the city.
Victor Beltrí and Roqueta born in Tortosa (Tarragona) in 1862 and died in Cartagena in 1935.
Son of José María Beltrí Belilla sculptor, studied at the School of Architecture of Barcelona, ​​which was introduced in the modernist style of the time.
After the first few years of work in Tortosa and Gandia, in 1895, settled in Cartagena, who lived then its reconstruction after the cantonal revolution and the rise of the mining operations.
In the 40 years he lived in our city, where he became city architect Victor Beltrí made ​​over 800 projects, making it one of the leading exponents of Modernism.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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