Palace of the Marqués de Dos Aguas
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Native name Palacio del Marqués de Dos Agüas (Spanish) Palau del Marqués de Dosaigües (Valencian) |
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| Location | Valencia, Spain |
| Official name: Palau del Marqués de Dosaigües designation1_date = | |
| Type | Non-movable |
| Reference no. | RI-51-0001213 |
 Location of Palace of the Marqués de Dos Aguas in Spain
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The Palace of the Marquis of Dos Aguas (Spanish: Palacio del Marqués de Dos Agüas, Valencian: Palau del Marqués de Dosaigües) is a Rococo nobiliy palace, historically important in the city, is located in one of the most central locations in the city of Valencia (Spain), stately mansion that was of the Marqueses of Dos Aguas, currently owned by the Spanish State, where is installed the González Martí National Museum of Ceramics and Decorative Arts.
A noble knight, Don Francisco Perellós, a descendant of the counts of Tolosa, married in the early 15th century with Joanna Perellós, only daughter of wealthy Mosen Gines de Rabassa, the descendants of this marriage took the name of Rabassa de Perellós. This family acquired by purchase the barony of Dosaigües in 1496, being elevated to marquisate by King Charles II "the Bewitched" in 1699.
Historians say, that the house of the Marqueses of Dos Aguas was considered in Valencia for centuries, as a paragon of nobility and opulence and that, its fortune came from the year 1500, at which time a family of merchants, the Rabassa, is enriched, first with the commercial treatment and then with the leases of the rights of the Generalitat, i.e. the contracts of indirect contributions. The Rabassa de Perellós family continued their business with the Generalitat, while occupying high positions in the political government of Valencia and accumulated skills and important heredities through intermarriage with other important Valencian noble families.
The space in which it is located is believed that was probably originally the field intended to a Roman necropolis of the 1st and 3rd centuries, due to the findings in one of its courtyards on September 9, 1743.
The building, originally long noted for the rich Gothic exterior facades and splendid Gothic interiors added in 15th century, was constructed by the family Rabassa Perellós. In its origin and at the view the Plan of Father Tosca, the palace was a Gothic building by the year 1400, of three bodies willing around a courtyard, facade at north, embattled tower at northeast (left of the front), midpoint portal, loggia run under the eaves and tiled roof. Today and after numerous renovations, the palace has an irregular plan, organized around two courtyards and with three towers on three of its corners. Its elevation is developed on ground floor, main floor and second floor.
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