Caixa de Pontevedra

[2] After Daniel de la Sota's dismissal as president of the provincial deputation, the military man Manuel Casas Medrano took over and Alexandre Bóveda resigned.

At this stage there were clashes with the Municipal Savings Bank of Vigo over the occupation of different spaces, a situation in which the Ministry of Labour intervened.

In 1944, the entity acquired a building under construction in Campolongo where it set up its headquarters, designed by the architect Emilio Quiroga Losada.

The building was expanded again between 1971 and 1973, with the construction of an auditorium and various offices, which for a time housed the classrooms of the National University of Distance Education.

In 1990, various collaborations began with the savings bank of Ourense and Vigo, culminating in the year 2000 with the merger and creation of the private entity Caixanova.

The last part consisted of the execution of an annex of modern architecture with a façade on San José and Augusto García Sánchez streets, built between 1970 and 1974 by the architect Joaquín Basilio Bas.

[17] The building is crowned on the façade of its main entrance by a 6-metre high bronze sculpture by the sculptor Cándido Pazos, created in 2006, representing the Greek archer Teucer, the mythical founder of the city of Pontevedra.

Inside the building there is a large hall that is accessed from the main entrance on Augusto González Besada Street and connects the different rooms.