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| | Gerona jewel - administrative building, University of Gerona, Spain - Interior Design Architectural Review, The - Find ... |
 | | The city of Gerona, in the possession of the Moors from the ninth to the eleventh century, is between Barcelona and Spain's border with France. |
 | | Once the civic heart of Gerona and its cultural emblem, Les Aligues was used throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to house the city's university and, subsequently abandoned, fell into ruin. |
 | | Viader himself was town architect from 1983-85, and public works have included a plan for the restoration and renewal of the historic core of the city (1980-83), the restoration of 83 medieval houses overhanging the Onyar river (1982-84), and renewal of the central market (1987-93). |
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