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The Souto’s House in San Miguel de Reinante

This is another example of transition between the autochthonous house and the noble house. It was built in the 1920s by Mr Ramón Iglesias Pérez.

Like many of the promoters, Mr Ramón chose to build his Indiano house with a great decoration on the main façade, on the side of the main road.

On the first floor, three windows give access to a continuous balcony, which occupies the whole length of the façade, supported by four large corbels and finished off with aprofusely and decorated fine iron grille. The balcony is normally the most important part of the building, where the owners take the greatest care in decorating it. It thus becomes one of the components that mark the taste and economic position of the promoters.

A semicircular pediment overhangscrowning the building, on which the balcony is in the same style as the previous one and it is decorated with vegetal motifs. It is common to use of mouldings to decorate the friezes, pediments and window dressings of the façades. On the acrotério or attic that hides the roof, there are vase figures in the form of pinnacles, contributing to give the house an air of distinction.

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