House of the Dragons (

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: ''Casa de los Dragones'') is an important landmark in the Spanish exclave of

Ceuta Ceuta (, , ; ar, سَبْتَة, Sabtah) is a Spanish autonomous city on the north coast of Africa. Bordered by Morocco, it lies along the boundary between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It is one of several Spanish territorie ...

on the north coast of Africa, and an extraordinary example of

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. The house is on a corner of Kings Square.

History

Commissioned in 1900 by Francisco Cerni González, Mayor of Ceuta between 1897 and 1903, in partnership with his brother Ricardo, the building was designed by

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n architect José M. Cortina Pérez and completed in 1905. Perez was an eclectic architect who designed the bottom of the building from artificial stone, and as a ''

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