# Alfredo Azancot

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{{Short description|Portuguese architect}}
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'''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](/source/S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9_Island) and educated at the [École des ponts ParisTech](/source/%C3%89cole_des_ponts_ParisTech). He emigrated to Chile, and designed many buildings in [Viña del Mar](/source/Vi%C3%B1a_del_Mar), including [Brunet Castle](/source/Brunet_Castle), [Rioja Palace](/source/Rioja_Palace) and the [Carrasco Palace](/source/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](/source/British_Arch) in [Valparaíso](/source/Valpara%C3%ADso).<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Garrido Álvarez de la Rivera|first1=Eugenia|title="El Palacio Rioja"|journal=Revista Archivum|volume=4}}</ref>

==Gallery==
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|title=Buildings designed by Alfredo Azancot
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|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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Category:19th-century Portuguese architects
Category:Immigrants to Chile
Category:Year of death missing
Category:People from São Tomé
Category:People from Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe

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