In the 16th century and part of the 17th century this magnificent building belonged to the Santacília family, and to the Berga family from the year 1677. In around 1754, Gabriel de Berga y Zaforteza was the patron of a radical alteration to the building. The patio is accessed by a semicircular arch doorway, blazoned with the Berga coat of arms by the sculptor Joan Deyà. In 1942, the building was sold to the Ministry of Justice, the present owner.
At the end of the seventeenth century this house was owned by the military engineer, Martín Gil de Gaínza. In the eighteenth century it was acquired by Fernando Chacón. In the nineteenth century it was the residence of the Marquesses of Ariany. At the beginning of the twentieth century it was acquired by Francesc Blanes, who, in 1925, gave it to the charitable organisation Ses Minyones. It has belonged to the Government of the Balearic Islands since 1984. The courtyard is ample in size, with two crossed segmental arches and a large covered area to the right, where the staircase begins. On the Paseo de Sagrera side, the elegant gallery with seven semi-circular arches resting on Ionic style columns is of particular note.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth century this house was owned by the Binimelis and Ripoll families. In the late nineteenth century the house was owned by Gabriel Verd i Reure. Catalina Verd i Mayol de Bàlitx married Pere Morell i Verd and their heirs sold the house to the Balearic Government; nowadays it houses the Department of Tourism. Entry to the courtyard is through a large segmental arch, with marble pilasters and Ionic style capitals. To the right is the staircase, with iron railings with flat balusters. On the first floor there is a gallery with an arch and Baroque balusters.
In 1523 this house belonged to Francesc Burgues, the royal procurator. On 26 November 1541 the emperor Charles V stayed here, after the failure of the military expedition against Algiers. It was the most expensive house in the 1576 property valuation. In 1636 it belonged to Nicolau Burgues and it currently belongs to the Blanes family. A great semicircular arched doorway leads into the vestibule area, with the staircase to the right. A segmental arch with the coat-of-arms of the Burgues family carved in the capitals provides access to the courtyard, with the coat-of-arms of the Blanes family to the left.
Old medieval house which in 1606 passed into the hands of the Genovese jurist, J. Francesco Pavisi, who rebuilt it in the Manierist style, closer to the owner’s origins than the traditional city architecture. The traditional layout was maintained in the courtyard. Alterations were carried out in the 19th century when it was converted into a boarding house.
This house dates from the first half of the fourteenth century. It was owned, successively, by the Despuig, Belloto, Teatins, Alorda, and Weyler families. In 1911 Valerià Weyler Nicolau sold it to the Casa Bressol del Nin Jesús. Since 1990 it has been the headquarters of Asociación ARCA. The façade contains a memorial stone to General Weyler; on the first floor there are three ajimeces, with four smaller ajimeces on the upper floor. Inside there is a central courtyard, with segmental arches with the anagram of Jesus in the capitals.
Built in the 18th or beginning of the 19th century, apparently all that remains from the original house is the courtyard. A segmental arch separates the entrance, with its wooden ceiling, from a Catalan-style staircase that is now set in an enclosed space.
Typical 18th century courtyard with segmental arches and red marble Ionic columns, probably ordered by Fonticheli, an important Genovese family of merchants who bought the house in 1724. The staircase, originally with two flights of steps, was lengthened in the 19th century. The façade’s modernist aspect is the result of an alteration by the architect Jaume Alenyà in 1909.
It is the main square of the municipality of Llucmajor, where we find first of all the town hall of the municipality and in addition to a series of bars and restaurants where we will be able to taste the typical gastronomy of the zone and of the own island of Majorca.
Built on the highest peak of Sa Dragonera. At first Eusebio Estada considered the option of establishing a simple permanent light mounted on a metal turret and attended by the same staff of the lighthouse at the other end of the island in Cap Llebeig, but finally the criterion was adopted to build a lighthouse with a house whose project was in charge of Miguel Massanet. It was inaugurated on 15-11-1910. Being a lighthouse that did not require much luminous range, it used a simple Maris lamp with one wick, and the lighthouse was maintained by a single lighthouse keeper. In 1925 the lighthouse keeper assigned in this signal died and his wife had to take charge of the service during that night until the following day one of the lighthouse keepers of the Llebeig lighthouse could come to his aid. At the beginning of the 20th century it was very frequent the use of some coves of Sa Dragonera for the traffic of contraband, reason why the lighthouse keepers of Llebig and Tramontana had to testify in several trials celebrated in this respect. The original optics were removed in 1960 to make way for an automatic acetylene lighting system. The lighthouse was left without the constant permanence of the technician in 1961 and the Llebeig lighthouse keepers became responsible for its maintenance. The removed optic was placed later (1965) in the lighthouse of Portocolom where it is still in service.
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