Ayuntamiento de Aspe

Monuments

In the 17th century, this building was built for the Consistorial House to direct the public life of Aspe, next to the Palace House of the Dukes of Maqueda and Marquis of Elche, who financed the work. The building, of Baroque style, is perfectly integrated into the urban fabric. It has a rectangular floor plan and its façade, made with sandstone ashlar, we can see its distribution on three floors: - Ground floor, which is accessed through a large portico formed by three arches. This space was used to carry out commercial transactions, hire day laborers, hold auctions and the market. Currently, this space is used to plant the nativity scene that every year the Association of Aspen Belenistas performs, an authentic artisan jewel made, year after year, by the members of that association. Of this plant highlights the lintel access door where we find as the main decorative motif, the shield of the town of Aspe. - First floor, where three large forge balconies are located, whose openings are framed with pilasters that are finished off with a thick ledge incurved in the center as a pediment, where plates of mixed profile are arranged on the lateral pediments, and a shield -cartela in the center. - Second floor, which has a gallery of square windows. The building is finished off with a small tower where the clock is placed and on it we find a bell. The latest reforms will take place in the XX, highlighting the expansion of the new City Council. For the construction of this new building the aesthetics of the historic were followed, using ashlars, arches, although in this case lintelled, and the clock tower was reformed using the same ashlars and following the same aesthetic. BIBLIOGRAPHIC AND DOCUMENTARY DATA: VV.AA.1998 Aspe. Physical environment and human aspects. City Council of Aspe