Andrés Garcia de Quiñones

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Nationality Spanish Died 1784, Salamanca, Spain Known for Architecture		Movement Baroque Period Baroque

Full Name Andrés García de Quiñones Structures Plaza Mayor, Salamanca, Unamuno House Museum People also search for Alberto de Churriguera, Manuel de Lara Churriguera, Juan García Berruguilla

Andrés Garcia de Quiñones (1709–1784) was a Spanish architect of the Baroque period, active in Salamanca.

Works

In Salamanca

Finished the Main square and built the city hall.

Jesuit seminary of La Clerecia, now the Pontificia university, including:

The Towers and the bell-gable.

Patio de los estudios (cloister)

Main staircase and the school´s Great Hall (Theological Hall).

Retables of the Visitation and of St. James.

In Betanzos: The General archive of Galicia. Once finished the building was used as a barracks and is now the town hall.

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