Narciso Clavería Y De Palacios
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Narciso Clavería y de Palacios, 3rd Count of Manila (1869–1935) was a Spanish architect, notable as an exponent of the
Moorish revival Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival architectural styles that were adopted by architects of Europe and the Americas in the wake of Romanticism, Romanticist Orientalism. It reached the height of its popularity after the mi ...
style known as Neo-Mudéjar. He was the grandson of Narciso Clavería y Zaldúa, a nineteenth-century Governor General of the Philippines from whom he inherited the title of Count of Manila.


Railway architecture

Working for the railway company '' Compañía de los Ferrocarriles de Madrid a Zaragoza y Alicante'' (MZA), Clavería designed Toledo railway station, his best-known building. Clavería incorporated references to Toledo's architectural heritage, which he had spent some time photographing.Clavería's photographs were published in the ''Revista Toledo''. () The facility features a spacious hall with Moorish revival decoration and a clock-tower. The smaller station at Algodor, between Toledo and Aranjuez, is also attributed to Clavería.


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arteHistoria: Clavería, Narciso
{{DEFAULTSORT:Claveria Y De Palacios, Narciso 1869 births 1935 deaths Nobility from Madrid Historicist architects Railway architects 19th-century Spanish architects Counts of Manila 20th-century Spanish architects