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Little Hospital of San José

Getafe, Área Metropolitana, Madrid

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Little Hospital of San José

Monument · Getafe, Área Metropolitana, Madrid

The Hospitalillo de San José is a former hospital for the poor built in Getafe in the early sixteenth century, whose origin lies in the will drawn up by Alonso de Mendoza in 1507, leaving much of his estate to help the needy of Getafe, Pinto and Griñón. It functioned as such until 1971; modified on successive occasions, it ceased to appear in the register of Madrid's hospitals, and in the 1980s the Getafe Town Council, together with the Fundación Hospital de San José, restored the building, then in a ruinous state, which today is a social services centre. It is a two-storey building, with rooms arranged around a courtyard with a cloister and Tuscan columns; notable features include its façade, with a curved pediment, the chapel, with a Baroque altarpiece, and the cloister itself.

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