Segismundo Moret, deputy for Almadén Historical milestone · Almadén, Valle de Alcudia, Ciudad Real Image of Almadén, not of the place itself. The liberal politician Segismundo Moret, who would go on to preside over the Council of Ministers, obtained his first seat as deputy for the district of Almadén in 1863. The mining constituency had a weight of its own in nineteenth-century politics. 1863 Photo: Pablo Ardura (CC BY-SA 4.0) What to see and do in Almadén