It is one of the most impressive historical buildings in the city, distinguished by its neoclassical architecture[1] and by the two stone Sphinxes and two large Canary palm trees that flank its entrance.

[2] It was commissioned by Eulogio Fonseca, one of the rich businessmen of Pontevedra at the beginning of the 20th century, to whom the sawmill or the baths still present in the old photographs of A Moureira gave prestige and money.

In the noble hall, just behind the frontispiece, the members of the "Marcus Aurelius" lodge, linked to both Freemasonry and Theosophy, met.

The building is accessed from the Paseo de Colón via a stone staircase, on either side of which are two Sphinxes with the head and chest of a woman and the body and feet of a lion that guard the entrance.

The granite sphinxes, griffins and columns refer to mythological figures protecting places and spaces of wisdom.