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Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Tenerife Avenida 25 de Julio 9
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Viera y BetancourtViera and Betancourt |
Eduardo Tarquis
1912 |
The façade of the Villasegura building, built in the early 20th century and designed by Manuel de Cámara y Cruz, is decorated with medallions with portrait reliefs of Viera y Clavijo, and Bethencourt y Molina, made by Eduardo Tarquis. An third medaillon in the top center of the building showed Imeldo Serís Granier y Blanco, Marquis of Villasegura (this medaillon has disappeared some time ago, according to Tarquis' biography).
 don josé de viera y clavijo 1731-1813 José Viera y Clavijo (Los Realejos, Tenerife, 1731 - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 1813) Spanish ecclesiastic, historian, botanist, ethnographer, and professor, best known for his exhaustive History of the Canary Islands (Historia de Canarias) (Wikipedia). |
 don agustin de bethencourt y molina 1758-1824 Agustín de Betancourt y Molina (Puerto de la Cruz 1758 - St. Petersburg 1824) Spanish engineer, who worked in Spain, France and Russia; supervised planning and construction in Saint Petersburg, Kronstadt, Nizhny Novgorod and other Russian cities (Wikipedia). |
The Marquis se Villaseruga, who died 1908, had meant the building to house a museum and a library. After his death the purposes of the building were distributed by floors: on the ground floor a study centre with six large rooms for the teaching of classes; and on the upper floor, two large rooms for museum, library and assembly hall.
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