Next to the building of the old Royal Cloth Factory, this chapel stands, also called Casa de la Bolla. Its interior was renovated in the 19th century. The public only opens on September 29, the festival of San Miguel.
Location: Calle Santa Rita, 23.
Hours: Only visitable on September 29 (festivity of San Miguel).
Tickets: Free admission.
CHAPEL OF THE VIRGEN DE LOS DESAMPARADOS: Opened for worship in 1852, its existence is closely related to the old Hospital that -in the late 18th century- existed in front of this chapel in Plaçeta de la Mare de Déu. Currently, the temple is desacralized and inside there are canvases and fresco paintings whose authorship is due to Vicente Castelló Amat (1787-1860), disciple of Vicente López.
Location: Plaçeta de la Mare de Deu, s / n.
Observations: Visitable only outside.
Exempt modernist style building, built by Vicente Pascual Pastor in 1909 for the offices of Monte de Piedad de Alcoy. It is currently the main office of the Mediterranean Savings Bank. Two large-format canvases by the painter Francisco Laporta, on a religious theme, which were originally in the chapel of the Homeless Aged Asylum, are exhibited in the lobby. The access staircase is decorated with artistic stained glass, and the main floor is dedicated to the exhibition hall and assembly hall.
Hours: Currently only visitable abroad.
In the castle, of small dimensions, its rectangular tower stands out. The fortress was built as a refuge for the inhabitants of the farmhouses during the Castilian-Aragonese war. In addition, in the city remains of the wall of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries are preserved.
Observations: Consult visiting conditions.
It is undoubtedly one of the most emblematic private buildings in Alcoy, a reflection of the economic strength that the city experienced at the beginning of the 20th century. This modernist-style house was built between 1908-1909 by the architect Vicente Pascual Pastor with the collaboration of one of the greatest exponents of 19th century Alcoyan painting, Fernando Cabrera Cantó, who turned it into his studio. Of its façade, the forged works of viewpoints and balconies, the mosaic finish, as well as the turkey that finishes off the lintels of its doors –for which the house receives that name– and the cast iron knobs stand out.
Location: C / San Nicolas, 13 – 15.
Observations: Visitable only outside.
The need to have currency for the weekly payment of payrolls for industry workers, required the opening of an office of the Bank of Spain in Alcoy, one of the few cases that occurred in cities that were not provincial capital. Installed in Alcoy since 1884, the Banco de España occupied different provisional headquarters until this monumental neoclassical building was built in 1927, with large columns and decorated pediments. Coinciding with the closure of these offices, in 1982, the Bank of Spain donated the building for cultural use to the Alcoy City Council, being rehabilitated for La Casa de la Cultura, the Public Library and the Municipal Archive.
Hours: Monday to Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and from 17:30 to 20:30.
Tickets: Free admission.
Hours: Tuesday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Wednesday and Friday from 4 to 6 pm. Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 10.30 a.m. to 12.15 p.m.
Tickets: General € 1. Students, retirees and groups 0,5€. Children under 5 years free.
Institution created in 1868 by the industrial bourgeoisie of Alcoy. It is a building whose façade -modernist style with a certain Viennese influence- was designed by Timoteo Briet in 1904. Bees represent the work of industrialists and muses to artists. Hanging circles, wrought iron balconies, and sezession-patterned stuccoes appear. Inside there are different decorated spaces in which the sezession, art deco and art nouveau styles are present, and the Library and the Rotunda Hall stand out, under which is the Grotto (built by V. Pascual in 1896).
Hours: Mornings from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Tickets: Free admission.
Modernism left Alcoya complete catalog of architectural samples, which were raised under the heading of stil nouveau. Alcoy’s old town is heir to urban planning in the second half of the 19th century, although its streets bear the mark of the pioneer city of the Spanish industrial revolution. Streets such as Santa Rita, San Mauro, San Antonio or San Blas teach small characters cast in iron, sample of the powerful metallurgical industry.
Location: City Center between the Molinar and Riquer rivers.
Observations: Urban space.
In 1256 the Christian foundation of the Villa de Alcoy dates, and from 1305 it had its first urban expansion or suburb that in the 14th century was called Pobla Nova de Sant Jordi or Vilanova d’Alcoi. The Raval Vell was defended by a wall and several towers, of which the remains of the so-called Torre de l’Andana (in Placeta de les Xiques), Torre de N’Aiça and Torre-portal de Riquer, which have been preserved, At the same time, it was the access door to the town through the old way of Castilla or Madrid. At the beginning of the 18th century, on the occasion of the War of Succession, a bastion was built next to the Torre de N’Aiça. Years later, the towers were adapted for housing and a wider door – called Arc de Sant Roc- – was opened on the wall of Carrer de la Puríssima, to allow carriage access through Carrer de Sant Roc.
Observations: Urban space.
