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Santacana i Rovira House

Vilafranca del Penedès, Alt Penedès, Barcelona

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Santacana i Rovira House

Monument · Vilafranca del Penedès, Alt Penedès, Barcelona

The Casa Santacana i Rovira, in the centre of Vilafranca del Penedès, near the town's historic ensembles, is a house sharing party walls in a vernacular style, with a ground floor, an upper floor and attics under an Arabic-tile roof, and irregularly placed openings; an animal head carved in stone stands out on the façade. It shows formal features of popular Gothic-derived construction, and is thought to have once been a brothel. It forms part of the Inventory of the Architectural Heritage of Catalonia and is currently under restoration.

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