Pazo of Lourizán, Art Nouveau palace in Lourizán, Spain.
Pazo of Lourizán is an Art Nouveau palace in Lourizán, Spain, built from granite with a wide staircase decorated with sculptures. The building sits within an Atlantic forest near Pontevedra and forms the center of a large estate with botanical collections.
The palace was the site where the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1898, transferring Spanish territories to the United States. The estate later developed into a research center for environmental and forestry studies.
The property includes a fifteenth-century circular dovecote, an eighteenth-century barn, and a nineteenth-century iron greenhouse displaying architectural evolution.
The Environmental and Forestry Research Centre of Lourizán uses the grounds for scientific work protecting Galician forest heritage. Visitors can walk through the public park featuring trees from different regions of Spain.
The estate holds a circular dovecote from the fifteenth century, a barn from the eighteenth century, and an iron greenhouse from the nineteenth century. These buildings show how the property expanded over centuries.
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