This house is located on the western side of Plaza del Born, and along with Can Salort and Can Torre Saura it forms a vast patrician architectural complex that dominates the square. It used to be called Can Vigo, as this was the name of the family that built it. The current façade dates from the 20th century, and it modernised an extremely monumental composition with a markedly Italian feel, perhaps from the 19th century. The façade was stuccoed and the main openings were decorated with figurative architecture, with lintelled doorways, crowns with pediments, etc. The refurbishment left the balconies intact, but both ends were turned into enclosed glass lookout points, and the stucco was replaced by a new red-painted finish.
Palau Saura 1693-1712, Joan Amorós For most of the seventeenth century the master builders who built the finest Menorcan buildings came from Mallorca. The members of the Amorós family had a key and hegemonic influence on the island, which reached more than 40 years, between 1670 and 1710, a period of great construction activity, especially in Ciutadella. The Amoros developed their own style centered on the ornaments of pillars, domes, cornices, arches, etc., based on braids that personalized their works. One of the few buildings built by Joan Amorós was the Saura Palace on Calle del Santíssim on Calle dels Dolors. As in other stately houses of Ciutadella and in some of Maó, the plant is organized around the entrance space and the stairway that become a semipublic route that leads to the great noble room on the first floor. The octagonal vault that crowns the staircase box is one of the most interesting architectural elements of the palaces of Ciutadella. In the main façade the composition of the small windows of the second floor, with the cornice very flown and ornamented, that extend to the lateral facade and manage to give a great unity to the set. The Palace Saura was acquired by the City Council of Ciutadella in the last years of the millennium with clearly cultural aims. The interest of the building, except its magnificent façade, is centered in the dependencies of its ground floor, conserved the majority in its original form, and in the garden. Ownership: municipal
In the late 18th century the Spanish government decided to build a large lazaretto in the port of Maó. The site chosen was a peninsula near La Mola, opposite the town of Es Castell. The building on went on for several years, and in the end only half the project was actually executed. Even so, the Lazaretto of Maó is one of the largest quarantine installations still preserved in Europe. It became operational in 1817, and for a century served hundreds of boats which came from other ports and may have brought infected people or merchandise which had to go into quarantine. The current lazaretto replaced another previous one located on a nearby islet, Isla Plana, which no longer exists. The Lazaretto peninsula became an island too, when the so-called Alfonso XIII canal was dug out in 1900, to guarantee the sea traffic from the fortress of La Mola during storms. The most striking construction is the double wall that surrounds the lazaretto itself, with its watchtowers, different blocks and warehouses, the isolated areas where the diseased were concentrated, the small circular chapel dedicated to Saint Sebastian and the cemetery. Today ‘El Llatzeret’ is a residence managed by the Ministry of Health. To reach the island you have to take the pleasure boat that leaves from Calasfonts, in Es Castell, or by means of one of the residence’s own boats, which has to be requested in advance. The building has a medicine museum containing one of the first cardiographs ever to exist and different buildings with curious objects inside them, such as a replica of the boat used by Queen Isabell II when she went to Menorca to inaugurate the fortress of La Mola.
A small room with a taula is the main attraction of this settlement of the time talayotic where you can also see the remains of other areas such as housing reused until Roman times. Archeology experts predict that na So cacana, located in the municipality of Alaior, could be the religious center of the Levant island for what is considered a place of great archaeological interest.
The Mir House is a modernist-inspired house located Plaça Espanya of Mao, and was designed by the city architect Francesc Femenías. This is a privileged if what is sought is to admire the set of one of the largest natural harbors in the Mediterranean. Ranked highest Plaça d'Espanya.
Early Christian Basilica of Torrelló des Fornàs, built during the sixth century and from east to west. Very close to the airport of Menorca, a marked path on the road from Mahon to Sant Climent, is the early Christian basilica of Torrelló des Fornàs, built during the sixth century and from east to west. The basilica nave, is characterized by its Roman mosaic pavement, with figures of lions and palm trees that represent death and the tree of life. We also see a font, semicircular, built in dry stone. Before you reach the basilica and wrapped in stone walls, is the Torelló Fornàs talayot from above which can be seen in a nearby field, the remains of a prehistoric round house.
It is an open space, much like Italians concentric points based on Greek agora. In the rear of the church of Santa Maria is the Plaza of Conquest. The sculpture we see is the King Alfonso III and dates from 1950. Very close to it is a viewpoint which overlooks a beautiful picture of the port.
The small but attractive Plaça de la Constitució is a major nerve center of Alaior, where several bars are located and where is the traditional racket during the festival of Sant Llorenç. Held the first Saturday and Sunday after August 10. Also in the Plaça are Constitució Culture Center and Casino, two important meeting points for the villagers
The courtyard of Sa Lluna located in the heart of Alaior was a former Franciscan cloister initially built on the outskirts of the city and ended in the late seventeenth century. In 1853, after having been occupied for nine years by a military detachment step has enabled the interiors of the convent for housing.
The old Martorell House is completed in 1813 displaying its monumental neoclassical facade, topped with a large triangular pediment, on Major del Born street. Stresses the impressive lodge that opens on the facade that overlooks the square, which recalls Italian architecture and serves as a model for the two twin galleries of the house of the Count of Torre-saura, built just after and a short distance from it. The building is conceived as the residence of the second branch of the Martorell family, directly related to the Marquises of Albranca, who will be named Salort, a family ennobled in 1864. Due to the relationship between the Salort and the Olives family, the owner of this house is the one who currently holds the title of VIII Count of Torre-saura .
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