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Tower of Bermúdez

A Pobra do Caramiñal, Barbanza, A Coruña

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Monument · A Pobra do Caramiñal, Barbanza, A Coruña

A Pobra do Caramiñal

Image of A Pobra do Caramiñal, not of the place itself.

A Renaissance tower in plateresque style built between 1540 and 1545, one of the few examples of a Galician Renaissance palace preserved to this day; it is traditionally attributed to the merchant Juan Domínguez Giance, although other sources point to the lord of the place, Gómez Pérez das Mariñas, who in 1554 raised A Pobra do Caramiñal to the status of a town. It was linked to the Valle-Inclán family, whose parents were its last occupants before selling it in 1898 to the businessman Manuel Lojo, who turned it into a salting warehouse and damaged it severely; Valle-Inclán himself tried unsuccessfully to recover it from Alfonso XIII. Ruined after the salt-fish crisis, it was acquired in 1981 by the Concello, which restored it. Declared a monumento histórico-artístico (a former Spanish heritage-protection category, the precursor to the BIC) in 1976, it has housed the Valle-Inclán Museum since 1987.

Photo: Noel Feans (CC BY 2.0)

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