It has an air Italianate Baroque facade, XVIII century with a large central balcony of wrought iron, which gives unity to what originally were the palaces and Squella Gomila, two noble families who joined by marriage. The facade has undergone several modifications. The last time you cleaned the facade were lost most of the paintings and the windows were restored by a craftsman, while attached to the sculptures were removed layers of green paint leaving them in natural stone. Inside you can see rooms that hosted Chippendale and Queen Anne furniture, a Santo Cristo invoice Ivory Italian bed with Horace Vernet paintings, a painting of St. Paul school attributed to Ribera and important collections of paintings and taxed the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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
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.
1805. Manor house built at the beginning of the 19th century by the Oliver family. Neoclassical in style, it stands out for the paintings on its ceilings, made by Italian artists of the time. Currently converted into an Art Center where the Hernández Sanz-Hernández Mora collection is kept, characterized by the set of Menorcan paintings, cartography and documentation.
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