Suspended the removal of assets from the Pazo de Meirás by the Franco family

The withdrawal of assets that the Franco del Pazo de Meirás family was going to carry out starting next Monday has been suspended this Monday by court order. The court of first instance number 1 of A Coruña had issued an ordering procedure in April in which it set at 9:30 a.m. on June 26 the delivery to the Franco family of the only assets of the Pazo de Meirás that the Provincial Court de A Coruña has allowed him to retire.

However, in a new procedure on Monday, at the request of the family and in view of the pending legal cases, the process has been suspended, with the consent of the State.. The withdrawal, when it occurs, will only be related to those elements that, within the execution phase of the 2020 judgment that declared the property property of the State, the Justice understands that they are not necessarily included in the set.

Specifically, they are the bronze putti in the chapel, a stone sculpture of a virgin with a child, a lamp on a pilaster of a staircase and three metallic wall sconces, in addition to the corridor rugs that were already recognized, all of them in the interior of the pazo. For this reason, visits to the Pazo de Meirás are currently suspended, a measure that was scheduled to continue until July.

The judicial proceeding of the suspended delivery complies with the ruling that concluded, on the other hand, that all the elements existing outside the pazo have the nature of immovable property by destination, since they emphasize that “the garden of the Meirás pazo would be a simple garden ” without those furniture elements, “losing its own idiosyncrasy and content”.

The court highlighted at the time that “there is no record that such assets were introduced into the pazo after the death of Francisco Franco”, while indicating that “many of them were during the life of Emilia Pardo Bazán”, therefore those they cannot be withdrawn by the Franco family. The Court stressed that “an altarpiece without images is unthinkable, when it is also historically accredited that it is from the 17th or early 18th century, placed in the time of the Countess of Pardo Bazán.”

On the other hand, the State Attorney maintains the claim, in addition, of another 564 assets in a Madrid court that are in the property on a precautionary basis. These are grouped into three categories: national heritage assets, Spanish documentary heritage assets and assets that are in the public domain in case they affect the use of the Pazo de Meirás as the official residence of the head of state and, in addition, are part of the Spanish historical heritage. for its historical and artistic interest linked to the figure of Pardo Bazán.