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CERAMICS MUSEUM - MARQUÉS DE DOS AGUAS PALACE |
The Marqués de Dos Aguas Palace is the result of a radical reform carried out on the old ancestral home of the Rabassa de Perellós, holders of the marquisate of Dos Aguas, in the 1740s in a pronounced Rococo style. With an irregular quadrangular floor plan, organized around a courtyard and with towers at the corners, its facades rise with a ground floor and two upper floors, and on one side the main door opens, made of alabaster by Ignacio Vergara based on a design by Hipólito Rovira.
Presided over by the image of the Virgin, from it descend two watercourses alluding to the title of the marquises, with two atlantes on the sides symbolizing two rivers, all with an aspect of overflowing voluptuousness.
At that time, the entire facade was decorated with frescoes by Rovira, but in 1867 the palace underwent a new remodeling - the work of José Ferrer - and in it the paintings, which were in poor condition due to humidity, disappeared, being replaced by stuccos in gray and pink tones imitating marble, and also French-style balconies were made, with undulating railings.
Inside, we can still see today the 18th-century carriages and the 19th-century halls with their original decoration, recently restored, while the second floor houses the National Ceramics Museum González Martí, with an important collection of pieces from Antiquity to the most modern designs.