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The Butterfly House
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Other nearby places of interest are the Mercado de Abastos, the Puerta de Purchena and the Civil War Shelters.
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This Almeria property is a typical example of the bourgeois architecture of early 20th centuryorganized into four floors of housing. The floors become increasingly slender and lighter as we ascend the floors and are finished off with a wide cornice with large eaves. Throughout the complex, the modernist decorative motifs stand out, being of special interest the railings and the butterflies of the castle that give the building its name, as a curiosity to say that it is thought They were introduced as a Masonic symbol due to the architect's membership in this organization and in order to represent resurrection, immortality and protection.
The greatest anecdote s known incident of this building occurred on its opening day in 1911 when the owner invited He gave everyone who had participated in the construction a few glasses of wine. Tradition says that all the guests drank from the same glass and at the end of the celebration they left it in the castle of the dome to remember this wonderful day. a, the incredible thing about this matter is that more than a century later, having suffered inclement weather and even a Civil War, the glass is still in the same place was located.
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Long description
The Butterfly House rose in the Plaza de la Puerta de Purchena in the year 1909 for the enjoyment of the powerful Rapallo Campos family according to the design; or the architect Trinidad Cuartara. The property was located on the site of the old Posada ""El Álamo"" in the commercial heart of the emerging bourgeois city of Almería, standing out for its enormous dimensions and overload of ornamental elements of modernist style. In 1991 it was declared A Site of Cultural Interest within the Historical Complex of Puerta de Purchena and since the year ;o 2008 the building is managed by the Cajamar financial group who undertook the an important rehabilitation project and carries out guided tours inside the palace.
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