Edificio Bonín

It is one of Jenaro de la Fuente’s main works in the city and it remains intact.   It was built in an eclectic style and has a ground floor and three upper floors. The two facades of the building are connected by a circular chamfer of great decorative profusion. Its highlights are the semicircular arches supported by classicist columns that overlap the windows’ joinery. Each one has a balcony framed by padded pilasters. On the second floor, there are some freely designed capitals engraved with the letters M and A, the initials of its owners: Manuel Rodríguez Rodríguez and Angelina Bonín.   The facades are symmetrically ordered through a central tower-shaped pavilion and other two lateral ones that frame the middle sections. On the Oporto Street facade only one part of this structure was built.   The ornamentation follows an over-elaborate baroque style: there is no space in the entire facade without decoration.   Following this style’s characteristics, each floor has a different decoration: false keystones, filigrees on the arches, masks of monstrous faces, garlands, etc.