This house dates back to the 18th century. In 1818 it belonged to Antònia and later came to be owned by the Crespí de Santa Maria family. Rosa Ribera Carbonell (1834-1924), the widow of the soldier Miquel Villalonga Gelabert, who was in turn the uncle of the father of the writer Llorenç Villalonga, lived here for many years; she is seen as the inspiration for Obdúlia Montcada, from Villalonga’s novel, Mort de Dama.
The house was built in the 16th century by Joanot de Caulelles. The doorway is a semicircular archway and communicates with the entrance, which has a small staircase on the right with a little studio doorway. A diminished arch leads to the patio. The Caulelles coat of arms is engraved into the capitals. At the back of the patio, the ceramic mural by the artist Castaldo is a striking feature.
The building is from the XVII century, and has a courtyard characterized by the mixture of elements from different periods: Gothic staircase, octagonal pillars of Gothic origin that support segmental arches, gallery of the XIX century. The facade has three floors of elevation, with a semicircular arched portal and another portal on the right. On the second floor there are two balconies and a balcony window and, in the porch, small octagonal pillars. The entrance has a beamed roof; on the left, above a small staircase, there is a studio doorway with a rounded arch. To the right, there is a lintel doorway. A segmental arch communicates with the courtyard. This one, paved, shows the medieval staircase on the right and conserves a cistern neck of octagonal section, located under the stairway palate.
In the 16th century this house belonged to the Desclapers family. It is a 15th-century Gothic building to which subsequent alterations were made. The patio is located on the left of the third covered section, with an octagonal central pillar in Gothic style supporting two diminished arches and a framework of beams with modillions. Further to the left is the staircase and the regionalist gallery dating from 1929.
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.
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