Nursing home of Sueca, Nursing home in Sueca, Spain

The nursing home of Sueca is a complex of five rectangular main pavilions with four-sloped roofs, set parallel to the railway on a trapezoidal plot and linked by transverse arms so that no block stands free. Built in brick in the Valencian neo-Mudéjar and modernist style, it centres on a chapel with the richest ornament; window openings range from 45° pointed arches and horseshoe arches to arches on helical columns and oculi in the towers.

The Little Sisters of the Poor have run a home for the elderly in Sueca since 1888. The present complex was financed by the inheritance of Antonio Baldoví Beltrán and Teresa Cardona Burguera, whose executors ordered its construction; work ran from 1911 to 1919 to the design of the Sueca-born architect Buenaventura Ferrando Castells. Their tomb, the family pantheon, was first placed in the church nave and moved in the second half of the 20th century to a north courtyard.

Locals call the complex Asil dels Agüelets or dels Abuelets, and the Little Sisters of the Poor have run an elderly home in Sueca since 1888. The official name in the town's urban plan is Panteón-Asilo de la Familia Baldoví-Cardona, because the founders' tomb stood in the church nave until it was moved to a north courtyard in the second half of the 20th century.

This is a working nursing home run by the Little Sisters of the Poor, not a site open to visitors; the complex is seen from Avinguda del Mar, with the Silla-Cullera railway line forming its southern boundary. The five rectangular pavilions run parallel to the tracks and are joined by cross wings, so no block stands free and the gardens fill the irregular gaps between them.

The funeral monument of Antonio Baldoví Beltrán and Teresa Cardona Burguera, whose inheritance paid for the complex, first stood inside the church nave. In the second half of the 20th century it was moved to a courtyard on the north side because it obstructed the celebration of the Eucharist.