Félix de Azara

Sculptor: Eduard B. Alentorn, signed
Architect: Antoni Rovira and Trias
Materials: White marble on stone pedestal
Inauguration: June 26, 1886

The neoclassic style building that houses the Museum of Geology of Barcelona is a symmetrical construction with a porch entrance to Coronado by a pediment on four SUPPORT columns of Ionian Order. The main façade, flanking the stairway access to the interior, are the statues of two characters on sentados, mayor of the natural size, sculpted by Edward B. Alentorn.

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