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Presentation
The Barceló Foundation, is a not-for-profit Institution established by the Barceló Oliver family on 24 October 1989 through a public-record deed witnessed by the Notary Public Mr. Salvador Balle Oliver.
The Barceló Foundation was registered in the Register of the Spanish Government’s Foundations Protectorate (controlled by the Ministry of Education and Science) under number BAL 1-1-3-16 on 19 July 1990.
The registered address of the Barceló Foundation is in Palma de Mallorca (Spain), in a building – the House of the Marquis of Reguer – listed as being of cultural interest.
What is the Barceló Foundation?

Since its establishment in 1989, the Barceló Foundation has been engaged in the fields of health, education, development cooperation, culture and art, and in general the integral development of people, with the constant aim of improving society as a whole by contributing the Foundation’s work, projects and resources.

Prominent among its projects are the AMI PROGRAMME, through which it is sought to improve the health of the most needy, and the Voluntary-Service programme, through which healthcare and other volunteers are deployed and the financial contributions received are administered, together with the Foundation’s programmes for economic development and those aimed at providing decent housing and attention in general for the most needy in underdeveloped countries.

The philosophy that informs the work of the Barceló Foundation is to provide help for those who most need it, and to work as efficiently as possible so that the Foundation’s work may benefit as many people as possible.

The Barceló Foundation’s action programmes are preferentially aimed at the neediest countries of Latin America and Africa.

 

 

Contact

Casa del Marqués de Reguer

C/ San Jaime nº 4

07012 Palma de Mallorca

Tel. 971 721837 - 971 722467

Fax: 971 720380

e-mail: fundacion@barcelo.com

 
The Foundation’s Headquarters
The headquarters of the Barceló Foundation are in the street Calle San Jaime nº 4 in Palma de Mallorca, in the building known as the House of the Marquis of Reguer (Casa del Marqués de Reguer).
The title Marquis of Reguer was bestowed by the Spanish king Philip V on Francisco Amar de Montaner y Dameto in the year 1739. After various vicissitudes and changes of ownership over the centuries, the house now used as the headquarters of the Barceló Foundation was acquired by the Barceló Oliver family in 1985.
The restoration work on the building took over three years, and was directed by the architect Jaime Torrens Bonet, the decor being entrusted to Joan Quetglas.
Among the notable features of the house are:
The austerity of the façade, which is built in Majorcan sandstone with a limestone plinth.
The large entrance with its round arch, topped by the shield of the Marquisate of Reguer.
The numerous windows fitted with balconies and ornamented with Gothic-style details.
The hall connecting the entrance with the central patio: it features an impressive neo-Mudejar coffered ceiling with segmental arches resting on columns whose capitals are painstakingly sculpted and decorated with plant motifs and human figures. There is a door in that hall leading into what were formerly the stables, though they have now been turned into the Barceló Foundation’s exhibition rooms.
The central patio, in the Neo-Gothic style with a profusion of ornamental details wrought in Santanyí stone.
The building is crowned by a tower with a quadrangular structure and ten Gothic windows with leaded glazing. The tower has a sundial on one of its sides, and wooden eaves support the pyramid of tiles covering the tower on top.