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About Casa de los Dragones

Casa de los Dragones or House of the Dragons is a vital milestone in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta on the north shore of Africa, and a remarkable case of diverse architecture. The house is on a side of Kings Square. The building was intended to take the name of the Cerni Gonzalez siblings, however it ended up known as the House of the Dragons. This is a comparative name to one of the planners 1901 works in the place where he grew up of Valencia which is known as the Building of the Dragons. The Valencia house likewise joins winged serpents, albeit all the more unpretentiously, which additionally gives that house its name. The following proprietors of the house were the children of Ricardo Cerni Gonzalez.

The Spanish Falange party had their workplaces here after the 1936 insurgency. The first mythical serpents were expelled in 1925 and lost, however four new winged serpents has been structured by Antonio Romero Vallejo. Made to a great extent of pitch and fiberglass which is painted to seem bronze, the new monsters thus weigh under 200kg each. They were introduced and formally opened in November 2006. Vallejo is a nearby craftsman who was conceived in 1958. He is likewise in charge of the bronze Tribute to the Artillery which is outside the dividers on Avenida Martinez Catena in Ceuta.

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