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.
References
External sources
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