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The National Police is investigating the robbery of the modernist shooters stolen on the night of last Thursday from the doors of the Casa Maestre, in the Plaza de San Francisco, according to sources from the police station told municipal officials.
The owner of the property has informed the Department of Urbanism that the pieces stolen were the shooters but not the knockers or callers, which were the most valuable pieces, and that were damaged by trying to also steal them.
As explained by the owner, these parts have been removed from the doors and taken to a workshop for restoration.
The Casa Maestre is one of the most beautiful manifestations of modernism in Cartagena and is protected urbanistically.
With plans by the architect Marceliano Coquillat, it was built by the architect Víctor Beltrí in 1906 for José Maestre Pérez and his family, owners of rich farms in the mining Sierra de Cartagena-La Unión.
During the Civil War of 1936-1939, the house was expropriated and converted into the headquarters of the Communist Party.
The façade is made of stone and is marked by its central axis, as well as by the ternary rhythm of its elements.
It emphasizes the curvilinear viewpoint in the central part, also of stone, and the main door of neorrococó style, where the door knockers and handles were.
Later it was acquired by a banking institution that emptied its interior, except for a room on the first floor, the skylight windows and the original staircase.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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