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furniture away with her. Under her command in 1930 were a cook, two waitresses, three cleaners and a guard. The majority of the staff were residents of the town, but they usually spent the night in the staff dormitories. The hours were long: often from eight o'clock in the morning to midnight. The
Parador had a vegetable garden to serve the restaurant along with yards for keeping smaller animals for the same purpose. On the occasions when the well dried up water had to be trucked in. The guard shouldered these responsibilities as well as carrying the coal for fires for heating and for the ovens.
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carry out this task was Luis Martínez
Feduchi Ruiz, who had carried out the original conversion. He took the opportunity to expand the Parador into adjoining areas of the buildings, including former teachers' homes on the main floor and some of the ground floor premises. The general facilities were improved and there were now eight double rooms and one single, six of them en suite, and shared bathroom facilities for those rooms which lacked them. The public rooms comprised a dining room and two lounges with grand fireplaces. The Parador de Oropesa reopened to the public on 12 December 1942.
794:) in 1927. The Parador de Oropesa was one of his first works, carried out at speed, and with building restoration and the determination to create a hotel taking precedent over any necessity for the conservation of heritage. He not only designed the building conversion but also took charge of the interior decorating, designing much of the furniture and fittings himself. A few of these remain in the Parador. The adaptation was completed in November 1929. On 7 February 1930 the Parador de Turismo de Oropesa entered into service, with its official inauguration taking place on 11 March 1930.
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upstairs, leaping across machine guns, threading my way between stacked rifles, to the quarters of
Lieutenant-Colonel Laureado Don Heli R. de Tella, chief of the column advancing on Madrid ... He stood at the window of his quarters on the second floor of the castle where the hotel part used to be and showed me how he took the town just a few hours before. 'We only lost one dead and eight wounded; the Reds lost I don't know how many.'"
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floor that are capable of subdivision when required. The dining room was opened to the outside through the glazed gallery to the north and onto the galleried terraces looking to the south. In the courtyard next to the castle wall a wooden cage was constructed to hide the
Parador's external machinery and fans. In the course of the work an old cistern was discovered and brought back to its original function of supplying water.
988:"I ran across the parapet, reached the stairway to the topmost tower and came out near a heavy 50-caliber machine-gun firing so fast men stood pouring buckets of water on the barrel," reported Knickerbocker for the International News Service. "Amazing rage struck the Legionaries as bullets from the armored train hit the parapet ... For an hour the mutual killing went on."
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brick arches was built, leading to the parish Church of Our Lady of the
Assumption, so the countess and her suite could leave the palace and attend mass without having to mix with townspeople. On the count's death in 1621 the project was unfinished and remained that way as the widowed countess abandoned Oropesa for the court in Madrid.
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established as dictator of Spain, the original
Parador establishment within the New Palace was found to have been so comprehensively damaged by shelling and machine-gunning and by over two-and-a-half years of occupation as barracks that it had to be repaired and remodelled. The architect appointed to
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To the south of the New Palace a further wing projected eastward, reached by a corridor extended from the gallery behind the New Palace. It housed a church where the counts and their families worshipped from a private gallery. This wing also contained service areas including kitchens, staff bedrooms,
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Knickerbocker's interview with de Tella in the Parador machine guns were heard firing from the castle's towers. A Republican armoured train which had appeared on the railway just below was shelling and machine-gunning the castle and Parador. The Nationalist Legionaries were responding.
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At roof level six large rectilinear chimneys were visually situated above and between the seven vertical window alignments. To the right of the façade was an octagonal ground-based structure of two double-height storeys to the height of the second belt course. It was built of padded ashlar stone and
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García Álvarez de Toledo's son, Fernán Álvarez de Toledo y Zúñiga, the second lord of
Oropesa, with his wife Elvira de Ayala, lady of Cebolla, built the first palace and enlarged the castle at the end of the 14th century. This palace, on the north side of the castle complex and abutting the castle,
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In July 2010, celebrating the 80th anniversary of its inauguration, the
Oropesa Parador became what the Paradores organisation call a "parador-museo". 31 information points were placed around the building, with explanatory texts in Spanish and English explaining the history of the building with old
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Further restoration work was carried out in several phases between 2001 and 2016 by local architect Mauro Cano. The commission was to bring the
Parador up to date in terms of its uses and to the regulations regarding accessibility, safety and hygiene. Large banqueting rooms were built on the ground
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In the 1940s the Parador de Oropesa became established as an important location for meetings between the intelligence services of Spain and Portugal (both countries then controlled by dictators) with leading officials organising their bilateral activities and endeavouring to control smuggling along
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The rear of the New Palace, facing the castle, had none of the symmetry or style of the frontal façade. It was more complex in presentation, with a number of blocks of differing dimensions projecting eastwards, and northwards to connect with the western end of the Old Palace. Some of the windows on
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In 1929 part of the New Palace was converted into one of the earliest Paradores, the first to be constructed within a pre-existing historical building, with nine bedrooms and space for 19 guests. Much expanded since, into both the New and Old Palaces, it is now one of the most popular venues in the
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The Oropesa Parador's administrator was Adela Páramo Cuartero, the daughter of the main instigator of the project. She had brought in some of her own antique furniture pieces to help decorate the interior. She retained her ownership of these pieces and when she retired in 1965 she took much of the
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of the Legion were quartered here now. ... They had marched and fought all night long and now they ... slept in heaps .. in every corner of shade the castle court afforded ... In the middle of the courtyard under the blazing sun a very old crone dug around in a vast heap of wreckage ... I went on
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Some unfinished external construction areas show the New Palace remained incomplete, though occasional building improvements and changes were carried out over subsequent years. The 5th Count of Oropesa, some time after 1619, began an elevated walkway into the town from the New Palace. A series of
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By 1947 a rationalisation of the use of the castle and palaces at Oropesa was required due to the number of other organisations using them and coexisting in the space. So began a long series of occasional closures and reworking over the next 45 years together with the departure of organisations
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Internally, the New Palace was laid out in a similar way to most aristocratic houses of the time, with interconnecting rooms in a corridor formation, allowing visual communication from one end of the building to the other, both on the floor housing the reception and ceremonial rooms, and on the
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divided the façade horizontally into three sections. Internally there were three floors with mezzanines, producing some peculiarities in the fenestration pattern. Most prominently, there were seven wrought-iron balconies, served by full-height glazed doors, in a row above the first of the stone
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Access to the Parador was through the archway from the street to the inner courtyard and then by a semi-exterior staircase to the gallery of the main floor where there was access to the lobby. The gallery shared access to the barracks of the Civil Guard, who occupied the first floor of the Old
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The Parador de Oropesa was the first of the then fledgling Parador chain to be converted from an historic building, being inaugurated in February 1930. Many more Parador adaptations of ancient structures were to follow. The initiative for its conversion came from Platón Páramo Sánchez-Junquera
1142:, playing an anti-Napoleon guerrilla fighter, appeals to spectators in the courtyard, temporarily converted back into its bullring setting, for help in pulling a giant cannon from a river. Scenes from other films have been shot at the Parador de Oropesa, including the Spanish language movies
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In 1928 a bullring was installed in the courtyard with permanent concrete bleachers for the spectators built on the southern and eastern sides. The gallery on the northern and western sides, with the temporary addition of bleachers beneath when a fight was planned, completed the ring. The
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stone columns, facing onto the courtyard. At the central corner of the gallery the Old Palace's semi-exterior staircase emerged at the upper level, having risen from the ground floor at the rear of the New Palace. The gallery gave its name to the central courtyard which became known as
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took up residence in the Parador while the hotel areas of the Palace and other parts of the establishment were converted into a military barracks. Some of the Parador workers suffered reprisals for having previously provided hospitality to the Republican militia.
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of the town in the main courtyard with the intention of setting fighting bulls loose amongst them. Eyewitness reports also suggested that several of the town's priests had been seized, tortured and beaten in the castle's courtyard before one was murdered with
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photographs, plans and further illustrations of the past of the palace, including its origins, the architectural character of the different spaces and the uses they had in the past, the people linked to the building, and the history of Oropesa.
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visited the Parador de Oropesa on 18 November 1930 and addressed the residents of the town from the central first floor balcony of the New Palace, over the entrance archway. Journalists reported that he was "applauded enthusiastically".
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facilities, a bedroom for drivers, a room for the manager, another for the workers, an office, a service room and a dining room able to seat 30 guests. The old municipal theatre on the ground floor was converted into garages for cars.
606:). Situated roughly at right-angles to the Old Palace it faced west-southwest. The main façade was elongated, symmetrical, predominantly flat and unusually high. Built of stone with occasional red brick infill, two full length stone
951:(Unified Socialist Youth) battalions who had been brought in to help defend the town, while one battalion and one company were taken prisoner. Many captured commanders were shot immediately. Extensive war materials were captured.
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The Parador de Oropesa is now one of the most important historic buildings managed by the Parador chain and is one of the most popular, with 20,000 guests staying each year and 40,000 meals a year being served by the restaurant.
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721:(primary school) and homes for the teachers. The town council secretary and the building superintendent also lived in the New Palace. Some of the lower rooms were used as the municipal slaughterhouse and as food stores.
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At the beginning of the 20th century the owners of the castle and palaces at Oropesa, Enrique Gutiérrez de Salamanca and Ruffo de Gambert, had defaulted on their mortgages and the properties were acquired by the Oropesa
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Within the town and the surrounding countryside there was considerable support for the Republic amongst working people while more prosperous members of the community, landowners, and priests supported the rebel
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the second storey featured large windows crowned by triangular pediments on each of the seven faces. The eighth face connected with the southern corner of the main building. The upper storey was known as
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In the small hours of 30 August 1936 the castle and Parador were taken over in a surprise attack by the Tenth Rifle Company of the Nationalist forces led by Lieutenant Alfonso Mora Requejo under Colonel
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in July 1936 the working of the Parador continued briefly until the government (Republican) military command of the Extremadura army (First Organic Division) with troops from Madrid and led by General
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The Parador de Oropesa is established within the complex of the castle of Oropesa. The castle complex consists of four attached major buildings: two castles and two palaces, together known as the
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Full board at the Parador was 20 to 25 pesetas and a few pesetas extra for room with a bathroom. Breakfast was 2 pesetas, lunch 8 pesetas and dinner 10 pesetas. A cup of coffee was 75 centimos.
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When the Parador de Oropesa opened it was seen as a revolution in terms of tourism, but also it created a new type of employment in an area which was mostly dependent on agricultural work.
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For nearly another 200 years the castle and palaces remained in the hands of the Álvarez family. Over four centuries the family had hosted celebrated figures at the palace, including
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On taking the castle, the Nationalist Legionaries discovered that the Republicans, aided by their civilian supporters in Oropesa, had rounded up and assembled the opposing
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the rear side are framed with red brick, with brick fans forming the lintel. Others are surrounded with plain dressed stone in a similar way to the windows on the façade.
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The interior of the Parador combined comfort with an aristocratic ambience typical of the region. There were five double guest rooms, three of them with a bathroom
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requested the help of the Oropesa town council, who owned the Palace, in the conversion and inauguration of the Parador, in particular in the task of ceding to the
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580:(1530-1597) or his closest disciple Francisco de Mora (1552-1610). They are known to have worked together on a number of prominent Spanish buildings, including the
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753:(1857–1929), a local apothecary, collector and antique dealer, who as well as holding other political positions was a member of the Provincial Board of Tourism.
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Business at the Parador was slow at first; four days might pass without the arrival of a guest. In 1931 there were 20 overnight stays and 45 meals were served.
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string courses. The balconies retain their original metalwork. All the windows were framed with plain, monumental dressed stone and capped by red brick arches.
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Prices had risen from before the hostilities. Bed and breakfast in a room with ensuite facilities now cost 64 pesetas. The dinner set menu was 30 pesetas.
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At the beginning of the 19th century the lineage of Álvarez de Toledo died out and the lordship passed to the citizens of Oropesa. Soon after, the
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building with a long hall room on the upper floor approached from the courtyard by a wide stone interior staircase. The hall was embellished by a
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Under the town's control the castle and palaces became the community centre. Rooms in the Old Palace were converted into offices. The local
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The fighting moved on and the Nationalists remained in control of the castle at Oropesa for the remainder of the war. Lieutenant Colonel
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before turning north-eastwards towards Toledo and Madrid. Oropesa Castle, in the hands of Republicans, lay in the line of their advance.
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the Spanish-Portuguese border, 140 kilometres to the west. Local civil governors also met at the Parador to organise the pursuit of the
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pilots) were shot down in a dogfight with Hispano-Nieuport Nid52, Dewoitine D.372 and Hawker Fury aircraft flown by the Republic.
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In the 16th century, the Counts of Oropesa built the New Palace. There is a difference of opinion as to whether the architect was
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ceiling decorated with the coat of arms of the Álvarez de Toledo family and those of other families connected by marriage. A
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occupation of Iberia, begun in the year 711, saw the building of a much larger fortress on the remains of the ancient Roman
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rewarded the Oropesa nobles for their loyalty with further fortifications and the building of a town wall in 1321. In 1366
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in 1940 (soon after the Civil War) which included a bullfighting scene set in the courtyard, and in 1954
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floors above housing the bedrooms. On the first floor above the ground floor a large room, built as an
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displayed three coats of arms, one being of the Álvarez family and the other two of the Zúñiga family.
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captured Toledo in 1085. Oropesa and the Muslim-built castle came under his control. His descendant
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unconnected with the Parador operation. Two architects were involved consecutively: the first was
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bullfighters, who came mostly from local villages, were usually second-rate.
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details were added to the first palace in the 16th century.
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Hours after its fall to the Nationalists the US journalist
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The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution & Revenge
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The Siege of Alcazar: A Warlog of the Spanish Civil War
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Oropesa Castle and the courtyard bleachers in the 1930s
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and had made a remarkably rapid advance north through
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haylofts and stables. It has since been demolished.
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gifted the town to its citizens, and Alfonso's son,
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1750:, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 29 August 1936, p1.
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1857:Revista Nacional de Arquitectura
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1522:"La plaza de toros de Oropesa",
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1436:"La inglesia del palacio",
1102:Francisco Álvarez de Toledo
1048:guerrilleros antfranquistas
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1210:"Palacio Nueva de Oropesa"
1124:Parador de Oropesa in film
892:José Riquelme y López Bago
777:Luis Martinez Feduchi Ruíz
764:In November 1928, the new
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2151:Hostal dos Reis Católicos
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1822:Milagrosa Romero Samper,
1611:"El Parador de Oropesa",
1509:"El palacio del pueblo",
1131:The Pride and the Passion
1069:Julián Luís Manzano Monís
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2124:Palace of the Teobaldos
1882:"Francisco de Toledo",
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1556:. Casa Platón Páramo.
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1483:"La antigua botica",
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