Luigi De Marchi
Editor & Publisher

Luigi De Marchi

Luigi De Marchi, architect, is the editor and publisher of Cultural Heritage Online. He founded the archive in 1998 as beniculturalionline.it and has published it without interruption since.

Contributions: 6 articles · 1,209 heritage places · 8 itineraries · 2 road-books

Author name: Luigi De Marchi

Luigi De Marchi, architect, is the editor and publisher of Cultural Heritage Online. He founded the archive in 1998 as beniculturalionline.it and has published it without interruption since.

The neo-Gothic stone façade and corner towers of Casa Botines by Gaudí in León

Casa Botines, León

Antoni Gaudí built Casa Botines on the Plaza de San Marcelo in León between 1891 and 1893, a neo-Gothic warehouse-and-apartment block guarded by a stone Saint George.

The white-granite turrets and gables of the Gaudí bishop’s palace at Astorga

Palacio Episcopal de Astorga

Gaudí began the bishop’s palace of Astorga in 1889 and left it in 1893; finished by Ricardo García-Guereta in 1913, the white-granite, fairy-tale castle is now the Museo de los Caminos.

The corner Modernista façade of the Hotel Suís in Sabadell, with brick, sgraffito and mosaic

Hotel Suís, Sabadell

Juli Batllevell built the Hotel Suís opposite Sabadell’s old station in 1902–1904, the building where he first used trencadís mosaic, a corner front of brick, sgraffito and ceramic.

The arcaded Modernista gallery of the Despatx Lluch in Sabadell, with columns carved as stone roses

Despatx Lluch, Sabadell

Juli Batllevell, a former assistant of Gaudí, built this Modernista textile office in Sabadell in 1908; its arcaded gallery carries columns carved with great stone roses.

The brick mansion of Casa Roura with its conical ceramic-clad corner tower in Canet de Mar

Casa Roura, Canet de Mar

Lluís Domènech i Montaner built Casa Roura at Canet de Mar between 1889 and 1892, an early Modernista mansion of brick and ceramic with a fairy-tale corner tower.

The domed Modernista corner façade of the Gran Hotel de Cartagena in brick and white stone

Gran Hotel de Cartagena

Begun by Tomás Rico in 1907 and completed by Víctor Beltrí, the Gran Hotel is the grandest Modernista building in the Region of Murcia, though only its façade survives.

The Modernista façade of the Casa-Museo Modernista on the Calle Mayor of Novelda

Casa-Museo Modernista de Novelda

The architect Pedro Cerdán built this Novelda townhouse between 1900 and 1903; now the Casa-Museo Modernista, it keeps one of the most intact Modernista interiors in the Valencian region.

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