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Parador de Almagro was completed in 1979. It had 55 bedrooms, with space for 104 guests. Some minor adjustments have since been made, and there are now 54 bedrooms, with space for 106 guests. The Parador's first director was Valentín Soria Capafons. The price of a room in high season in 1980 was
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published a catalogue of an exhibition of items from the
Paradores' artistic collection, which included the four portraits from Almagro. A member of one of the families and separately an art history teacher who was aware of the missing pictures belonging to the other family, browsing the catalogue,
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Melgarejo considered the project "una cobra de auténtica artesania de la construcción" (a work of authentic construction craftsmanship) which should make use of historical materials and construction. The objective, while expanding the convent, was to use local materials and building
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Spanish Civil War in 1936 the building was severely damaged and many of the monks fled or were killed. Those in the community who remained in the convent finally left in 1942 owing to their reduced numbers. Local people made partial attempts to restore the building and used a
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Franciscan Convent de Santa Catalina in Almagro was built by Jerónimo de Ávila y de la Cueva in memory of his wife Catalina de Sanabria. 15,000 square metres of land had been purchased for its development outside the town walls to the southeast. Construction began in 1603 and lasted fourteen
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Ministry the convent was in a state of ruin and the few walls left standing were in a poor condition following repairs done badly since 1936. Only the church retained its original architectural structure and the damage it had suffered was not serious.
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Parador de Almagro of the missing pictures led to calls for Paradores de Turismo to research the true ownership of all the pre-Civil War items in their approximately 10,000-piece artistic collection which is spread over their 98 establishments.
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techniques to make the finished construction appear to be of the seventeenth century; to create, as one architectural historian has noted, a stage or film set which would convince guests that they are actually in a genuinely ancient convent, built during the
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Almagro Parador is among the most popular of the Paradores located in Castilla-La Mancha. The months of December and January are the weakest for bookings, while the strongest months are April for Easter celebrations, and July for the Almagro Classic Theatre Festival
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and workshop (1776–1853), both of which had been hanging on the walls of the
Parador at Almagro until one of Sota's heirs located them in 2018. The restitution was carried out by order of the Secretary of State for Tourism,
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Artisan building methods were used in the same way as during the construction of the original convent and, as then, raw materials from around Almagro were utilised. In building the walls, the foundations were laid with
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Though the convent was not ceded to the government until 1969, work on the design for a Parador began in 1967, sponsored by the town council of Almagro. The Ministry, once it gained control, appointed two architects:
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In 1963 negotiations began between the town council of Almagro and the Spanish government with the aim of converting the building into a Parador de Turismo. On 24 April 1967 the Minister for Information and Tourism,
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for the project, but the budget for the town council's plans for the conversion far exceeded this figure. Unable to fund the hotel project, in 1969 the town council ceded the building and the land around it to the
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and one nineteenth century portrait which had been forcibly requisitioned by the Francoist army either during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), or shortly after, from the homes of two separate
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Construction work began in 1972. During the rebuilding and conversion the convent was greatly enlarged, with the addition of fourteen new patios. Collaborating with the architects was an
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Apart from the surviving original cloister, a number of patios were laid out in the expanded construction. Among the larger ones were the Patio de Los Arcos (Arches), the Patio del Boj (
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in 1979. It is one of the most popular Paradores in Castile-La Mancha, with a capacity for 106 guests. Forty years after the opening of the Parador, portraits seized by the forces of
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2,725 pesetas; breakfast cost 160 pesetas and lunch or dinner was 625 pesetas. The Parador was inaugurated by the Spanish Queen Sofía on 26 September 1979.
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chapels, and two further conventual buildings, identical to the originals, were erected. In the 19th century another similar conventual building was added.
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families. The rightful owners had been searching for the pictures for over eighty years, despite their public display at Almagro for at least forty years.
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and splays were carved with elements from the styles of the School of Toledo. Typical of the original period, low fireplaces were carved of stone, while
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during the Civil War were found to be displayed on the walls and were subsequently returned to their rightful owners.
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tiles fired in wood-burning kilns and interspersed with limestone paving hewn into strips and border tiles. Old red
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recognised the portraits which had been looted and which the families had subsequently not been able to locate.
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