001.248.Almadén

Municipality

Public

TOWN HALL

001.001.001.001

Built heritage - other

The Mining Academy (1777), the most important building in Almadén with great significance, both national and international, for the teaching of mining, was the first Mining School in Spain and the fourth in the world. Very important engineers studied there, for example Fausto D´Elhuyar (discovered tungsten) and Andrés Manuel del Río (discovered vanadium). It is a two-story building with a basement and has a back door exit. It has 2 sections with a classic façade formed by openings and pilasters with raised stone blocks; on the façade, the balcony with circular parapets stands out.

It is a rectangular building with the largest side being in the front. It has a large garden courtyard at the back. It has two floors facing the street and two cellars in the back to cope with the uneven terrain. Its greatest interest lies in the façade and, in particular, in the door and the upper balcony crowned by a coat of arms. Except for the roof, which is made of stone, the rest is rendered in a quilted pattern.

Masonry (brick, quartzite stone, slag brick, limestone or mud mortar, etc.), wooden beams (roof). The floor slabs are made of wood and thatching (rafters made of strawberry tree wood).

1785

Tonw Hall Of Almadén

Mining Academy building, where mining lessons were taught.

Currently not used in any way.

Mayor de San Juan Street, 72

Mayor de San Juan Street, 72

good

2nd phase of refurbishment

http://eimia.uclm.es/academia/

AYUNTAMIENTO ALMADEN

Águeda Moyano & Alicia Escudero

5. 5. 2022

Never