Fábrica(s)

English translation: building

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Spanish term or phrase:fábrica
English translation:building
Entered by: Charles Davis

06:46 May 19, 2019
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Social Sciences - History
Spanish term or phrase: Fábrica(s)
"El monasterio de la Victoria es una de las fábricas finimedievales más interesantes de la Baja Andalucía".
Abstract of article entitled “DE BUEN REJAL MEJOR MARCA”. LAS COMPRAS DE PIEDRA PARA LA OBRA DE UN EDIFICIO FINIMEDIEVAL: SANTA MARÍA DE LA VICTORIA DE EL PUERTO DE SANTA MARÍA (1522-1528)

Works, stone works, stoneworks?
broca
Local time: 14:30
building
Explanation:
In the context you've quoted "fábrica" simply means building:

"fábrica
4. f. edificio."
https://dle.rae.es/?id=HRJlIp7

Certainly "fábrica" can refer to brick or stone as a construction material:

"2. f. Construcción, o parte de ella, hecha con ladrillos o piedras naturales o artificiales, entrelazados entre sí con mortero. Una estantería de fábrica."

But here it's just a synonym of "edificio".
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Charles Davis
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Local time: 14:30
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4 +3building
Charles Davis
4 +1brickwork
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building


Explanation:
In the context you've quoted "fábrica" simply means building:

"fábrica
4. f. edificio."
https://dle.rae.es/?id=HRJlIp7

Certainly "fábrica" can refer to brick or stone as a construction material:

"2. f. Construcción, o parte de ella, hecha con ladrillos o piedras naturales o artificiales, entrelazados entre sí con mortero. Una estantería de fábrica."

But here it's just a synonym of "edificio".

Charles Davis
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Local time: 14:30
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  neilmac: In the light of biged's ref., I'd probably use "brickwork building"...
2 hrs
  -> Thanks, Neil :-) Biged's ref is irrelevant. "Fábrica" doesn't mean brickwork in this context, and the word doesn't necessarily imply that anyway; stone is "fábrica" too. It doesn't refer to the material here; it just means "construction".

agree  philgoddard
4 hrs
  -> Thanks, Phil!

agree  Melisa Espeche
12 hrs
  -> Thanks, Melisa :-)
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brickwork


Explanation:
In this case.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monasterio_de_la_Victoria
specifically 'Por su volumen, cabe dar cuenta de la inserción de< fábricas de ladrillo recreciendo y formalizando las coronaciones de los muros de la iglesia y claustro

bigedsenior
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agree  neilmac
2 hrs

neutral  Charles Davis: If it said "uno de los ejemplos más interesantes de fábrica de ladrillo", I'd agree, but there's no reason to think "fábrica" refers to brickwork here. Your ref. is to a twentieth-century addition to what is basically a stone-faced building.
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