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Entrance, Palau del Marques de Dosaigues, Valencia, Spain

Main entrance, 1745, sculpted in alabaster by Ignacio Vergara Gimeno, designed by Hipolito Rovira, at the Palau del Marques de Dosaigues, a Rococo palace of the Marqueses of Dos Aguas, in Valencia, Spain. The entrance portal includes sculpted atlantes representing 2 Valencian rivers, the Turia and Jucar, with buckets of water for the Aguas marquises, also a crocodile, a quiver of arrows, ivy, a snake, a reclining lion, and a palm tree. The building was originally built in Gothic style in the 15th century, but was remodelled in 1740 for the 3rd marquis of Dos Aguas, Gines Rabassa de Perellos y Lanuza, 1706-65, by Hipolito Rovira Meri, Ignacio Vergara and Luis Domingo. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Main entrance, 1745, sculpted in alabaster by Ignacio Vergara Gimeno, designed by Hipolito Rovira, at the Palau del Marques de Dosaigues, a Rococo palace of the Marqueses of Dos Aguas, in Valencia, Spain. The entrance portal includes sculpted atlantes representing 2 Valencian rivers, the Turia and Jucar, with buckets of water for the Aguas marquises, also a crocodile, a quiver of arrows, ivy, a snake, a reclining lion, and a palm tree. The building was originally built in Gothic style in the 15th century, but was remodelled in 1740 for the 3rd marquis of Dos Aguas, Gines Rabassa de Perellos y Lanuza, 1706-65, by Hipolito Rovira Meri, Ignacio Vergara and Luis Domingo. Picture by Manuel Cohen