Casa de la Bola - Former Hotel Paris

Casa de la Bola, also called Hotel Paris, is an impressive modernist and regionally inspired building that combines the exposed brick of the period with typical tiles. The golden dome is known as the 'ball house'.

Antonio García Ramos commissioned the construction to the architect Francisco Monís y Morales in 1907 and is located on the current Plaza de las Monjas; the Square of the Nuns in the center of the capital and at the back of the Palace of the Duke of Medina Sidonia. Monís designed a building divided into two separate sectors. The first part is designed as a residential and retail building and part two as a hotel.

The facade consists of both classicist and modernist elements, including brick and tiles, with a finishing of the second building with a three-quarter spherical dome.

Over time, the building lost its function as a hotel and two new floors were added to the upper floors of the second building and the first part was demolished.

In 2009, the first part was completely rebuilt, keeping the original facade and adding two floors.

From 2009 to 2012, the first building was the exhibition center of the Provincial Council of Huelva and the second building was used for shops.