General Map

Real Pósito (18th century)
Former grain storehouse, which formed part of the construction programme of civil buildings developed throughout the country during the Enlightenment period by order of King Charles III, it was built in 1767 during the reign of Charles III according to the Enlightenment projects of the time. The building is built with a masonry plinth on top of which are masonry box walls reinforced with brick walls. It is structured around a central courtyard that is accessed directly from the main façade, which is divided into three blocks, the central one being the tallest, through a large entrance hall on the axis of the courtyard. Above the doorway, which has a segmental stone arch with raised voussoirs, is the royal heraldry of Carlos III, that of the corregidor, Don Joaquín de Pareja Obregón and that of the mayor, Don Pablo Cortés de Vargas. In the courtyard there is a gallery with two orders of arcades: the lower one is of segmental arches on marble columns with Doric capitals and plinths and the upper one of semicircular arches supported by Corinthian cast iron columns. It was the headquarters of the Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País (Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country of Bastet) and inside it theatre and puppet companies performed throughout the 19th century until the beginning of the 20th century.


























































































































































































































































