The Circulo Industrial de Alcoy ''(''Alcoy's Industrial Circle'')'' is a cultural institution from

Alcoy Alcoy ( ca-valencia, Alcoi) is an industrial and university city, region and municipality located in the Valencian Community, Spain. The Serpis river crosses the municipal boundary of Alcoy. The local authority reported a population of 61,135 res ...

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Alicante Alicante ( ca-valencia, Alacant) is a city and municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean port. The population of the city was 337,482 , the second-largest in t ...

Valencian Community The Valencian Community ( ca-valencia, Comunitat Valenciana, es, Comunidad Valenciana) is an autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous Spanish autonomous community after Andalusia, Catalonia and the Community of Madrid with ...

, Spain, founded on January 1, 1868. It is placed at 19 Sant Nicolau street, in the city center of Alcoy. His creation had as aim to create an entity that was using as link and point of meeting of the businessmen, entrepreneurs and the Alcoy's middle class. Also, from his beginnings it developed sociocultural aims and activities. The history of Alcoy's Industrial Circle is a faithful reflection of Alcoy's economic and industrial history.

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The building was designed by the Valencian architect

Timoteo Briet Montaud Timoteo Briet Montaud (Cocentaina, March 3, 1859 – Alcoy, January 30, 1925) was a Spanish architect, one of the main architects of the Art Nouveau in Alcoy and the Valencian Art Nouveau. Biography In 1876 he finishes his studies in Alcoy's I ...

in 1909–1911. The building is one of the most representative works of the

Art Nouveau in Alcoy Art Nouveau in Alcoy ( es, modernismo en Alcoy, ca-valencia, modernisme en Alcoi), as one of the main focuses of the Valencian Art Nouveau, is the historiographic denomination given to an art and literature movement associated with the Ar ...

. It is one of the most singular and better preserved Art Nouveau works of Alcoy, both in his exterior and in his elegant interior spaces. It has the characteristics of the architectural Art Nouveau movement

Secession Secession is the withdrawal of a group from a larger entity, especially a political entity, but also from any organization, union or military alliance. Some of the most famous and significant secessions have been: the former Soviet republics le ...

.Doménech Romá, Jorge (2010). Modernismo en Alcoy, su contexto histórico y los oficios artesanales. Editorial Aguaclara. p. 409-420. . It has the cataloguing of protected with the level the IInd of Integral Protection in the General Plan, beside being inventoried by Fine arts and the Architects' Official College of the Valencian Community.

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Bibliography

* Doménech Romá, Jorge (2010). Modernismo en Alcoy, su contexto histórico y los oficios artesanales. Editorial Aguaclara. pp. 409–420. . * Jaén i Urban, Gaspar (1999). Instituto de Cultura Juan Gil-Albert, Colegio Territorial de Arquitectos de Alicante, ed. Guía de arquitectura de la provincia de Alicante. p. 15. .

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Website of the Círculo Industrial de Alcoy

The building in Alcoy Tourism
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