HEADQUARTERS OF THE REAL MAESTRANZA

The headquarters of the Real Maestranza de Caballería is located next to the Plaza de Toros, of which this institution is the owner. It is a regionalist building in the neo-baroque style, designed by Aníbal González in 1929.

However, the property would undergo successive renovations and expansions in the following decades. In 1956 the chapel was inaugurated, the construction of which was directed successively by Gómez Millán, Medina and Barquín Barrón. It has a Latin cross plan, with a single nave covered by a barrel vault with lunettes. The central space of the transept has been covered by a lowered dome with a drum and lantern, sitting on pendentives.

The main altarpiece is recomposed taking parts of the primitive altarpiece that occupied the chapel that the Maestranza had in the church of the disappeared convent of Regina Angelorum. It was originally made under the direction of Francisco Dionisio de Ribas in 1668 and its sculptures are the work of Pedro Roldán. In its central niche, a dress image of the Virgin of the Rosary is venerated, a work by Cristóbal Ramos from the 18th century, considered the official patron saint of the corporation.

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