They will only be able to remove five from the interior, as a court has already allowed them, and none from the outside
A CORUÑA, 20 En. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Provincial Court of A Coruña has confirmed that the vast majority of the assets claimed by the Franco family that are located outside and inside the Pazo de Meirás are part of or belong to the property and, therefore, cannot be removed, according to reports the Superior Court of Xustiza de Galicia (TSXG).
The only pieces of the inventory prepared in 2020 by the Cultural Heritage technicians of the Xunta de Galicia that the appellants will be able to take from the pazo are the bronze putti from the chapel, a virgin, a lamp located on the pilaster of the staircase and some sconces metal wall rugs, which are added to the corridor rugs, the removal of which had already been allowed by the Court of First Instance number 1 of A Coruña in an order appealed by the Franco family before the Court.
The provincial high court, therefore, has partially confirmed the resolution of the first instance body and has determined, in an order against which no appeal can be filed, which elements are part of the pazo and cannot be withdrawn.
In this way, it has partially upheld the incidental question raised by the General State Administration, to which the Xunta and the municipalities of A Coruña and Sada adhered, and has decreed that practically all the assets claimed by the Franco family remain in the property.
Like the court of first instance, the magistrates have determined that the assets on which there is discussion, with the exception of those that have been allowed to withdraw, acquired the condition and nature of real estate by incorporation, by destination or by both.
Thus, they conclude that all those existing outside the pazo have the nature of real estate by destination, since they underline that “the garden of the Meirás pazo would be a simple garden” without these movable elements, “losing its own idiosyncrasy and content”.
The court emphasizes that “there is no evidence 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”. In addition, it is worth noting that a historian stated during the testimonial evidence that “most of these elements were already in the pazo in 1938 and practically all of them were in 1975.”
Most of the interior elements discussed are found in the main altar of the chapel. The Court emphasizes 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.
Of the elements that the Franco family claims from the interior of the Meirás pazo, the Court has allowed them to remove the five mentioned. The order, issued in the execution phase of the 2020 judicial decision that declared that the property is property of the State, is firm.
