Alfredo Azancot

{{Short description|Portuguese architect}} {{Notability|Biographies|date=December 2016}} '''Alfredo Azancot''' (1 February 1872 – 1937)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://repositorio.usm.cl/handle/11673/24041 | title=Valparaiso Sporting Club Sistemas Constructivos Mixtos en los Albores del Siglo Xx Chileno | year=2017 | last1=Avendaño | first1=Caviedes | last2=Inés | first2=Camila }}</ref> was a Portuguese architect, born on São Tomé Island and educated at the École des ponts ParisTech. He emigrated to Chile, and designed many buildings in Viña del Mar, including Brunet Castle, Rioja Palace and the Carrasco Palace.<ref name="castagnetounahistoria">{{cite book|last1=Castagneto|first1=Piero|title=Una historia de Viña del Mar: la "hija de los rieles"|date=2010|publisher=RIL Editores|location=Santiago de Chile|isbn=9789562847179}}</ref> He also designed the British Arch in Valparaíso.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Garrido Álvarez de la Rivera|first1=Eugenia|title="El Palacio Rioja"|journal=Revista Archivum|volume=4}}</ref>

==Gallery== {{Gallery |title=Buildings designed by Alfredo Azancot |width=160 |height=170 |align=center |File:Arco Británico.jpg| alt1=Arco Británico in Valparaíso |British Arch in Valparaíso |File:Castillo Brunet.jpg| alt2=Brunet Castle in Viña del Mar |Brunet Castle in Viña del Mar |File:Palacio Rioja.jpg| alt3=Rioja Palace in Viña del Mar |Rioja Palace in Viña del Mar |File:Palacio Carrasco.jpg| alt4=Carrasco Palace in Viña del Mar |Carrasco Palace in Viña del Mar }}

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