House of Alvarez Rixo. The rear of the Ventoso Mansion is bounded by another major building of the XVIIIth Century, now in a state of abandon, which was the birthplace in 1796 of the chronicler and Mayor José Agustín Alvarez Rixo. The son of Portugese merchants, he initiated the collecting and conservation of the Municipal archives, and as well as being a politician, writer, health inspector and Magistrate, he became the correspondent of the British newspaper “The Times”. Wrought iron balconies adorn its elegant façade.
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