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Donation of the clock of the Puerta del Sol

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Donation of the clock of the Puerta del Sol

Historical milestone · Truchas, La Cabrera, León

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After three years of work, the Iruela clockmaker José Rodríguez Losada donated to the Madrid City Council the clock of the Casa de Correos; the mechanism was installed discreetly in the tower and started running on 19 November 1866.

19 de noviembre de 1866

Photo: Moisés Pastor (CC BY-SA 3.0 es)

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