The building known in Valencia as the Lactation Asylum dates back to 1909. However, the institution to which he refers is almost a century earlier.

The Breastfeeding Asylum consisted of an institution set up so that women in the tobacco factory (now known as Tabacalera) could care for their breastfeeding children.

These eighteenth-century working women could travel to existing facilities and breastfeed their children. Then they stayed in optimal conditions of care, while their mothers continued to work.

However, the lack of space and other infrastructure needs motivated the creation of a new building for Tabacalera, which also involved the construction of new facilities to maintain this relationship between mothers and their nursing children.

This is how the architect Ramón Lucini Callejo was requested to build the Lactation Asylum of Valencia in the early twentieth century.

Lucini maintained the modernism of the time as an architectural style. The building is thus presented with a characteristic concave façade, preceded by a small grilled portico. The tile is combined with bands of tiles in shades of blue and white, in a design that has survived to this day.

After the Civil War it became the property of the University of Valencia and, later, the City Council. Currently, taking advantage of a flow of thermal water, it offers spa and spa service under the name of Balneario de la Alameda.

It is theThe only urban spa in the whole city and, while the interior has been renovated all the facilities in order to be able to offer the appropriate services to this sector, on the outside the façade maintains the style Lucinius left for posterity, the same thing that working mothers at the turn of the century saw every day when they went for their little ones.



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