• Controversy: The Franco strategy not to deliver the Pazo de Meirás

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  • Families: The Francos get rid of family houses and antiques

The third floor of the La Quimera tower where Emilia Pardo Bazán wrote surrounded by books, was the scene of the solemn delivery of the key to the Pazo de Meirás to the State.

82 years later, the historic building ceased to be the property of the Francs, provisionally at least, because the sentence is appealed.

Arancha Martínez Bordiu and her husband, Claudio Quiroga

, and Jaime, the son of Jaime Martínez-Bordiú and

Nuria March

, were the last members of the clan to enjoy the property this August that treasures valuable antiques.

But Arancha and his brothers are convinced that they will do it again, because

the family is determined to fight to the end.

"This lawsuit is going to last years, because it

will reach the Supreme Court

. It will be long, but

the Government has wanted to set up its circus with the delivery of the keys

, and it seems very good to us, what happens is that people have to know that if this sentence is finally revoked,

the Government will have to compensate my clients

for everything they are doing, which for me is an act of outright propaganda, "lawyer

Luis Felipe Utrera-Molina,

spokesman for the family.

Luis Miguel Rodríguez has very good memories of the weekends he spent there with la Bordi, as he affectionately calls Carmen Martínez Bordiú, with whom he had a three-year relationship.

"Carmen is very sorry for all this, just like her brothers.

The pazo is amazing, a spectacular place. The whole family used to get together with the mother there, especially in recent years," she recalls.

Carmen Franco was the guardian of the house until her death in December 2017. "She was very happy there, but in the end she stopped going out of sheer grief," says a person who knew her.

Her children have also been closely linked to the pazo - there they have celebrated four weddings and a request for a hand - although, after the death of the matriarch, they put it up for sale for 8 million.

One of the rooms of the Pazo de Meirás CONCHI PAZ

The

transfer of powers

has occurred in the midst of the

controversy over the inventory of goods,

which has brought to light some

objects from the Spanish royal collections

: furniture, tableware, tapestries ... used in their day by Spanish monarchs.

The National Heritage expert who participated in the inventory has documented six objects: a

protective fireplace screen

upholstered with a fabric commissioned by

Alfonso XII,

a small

table-display cabinet

that was part of the decoration of Queen

Victoria Eugenia's

music room

in the Royal Palace of Madrid

, a desk of Francisco de Asís, husband of Isabel II, an Official Guide to Spain from the time of Alfonso XII and two sofas.

The caudillo liked to surround himself with historical objects.

It was discovered by the

Duke of Alba

when he appeared in his office in 1945 to inform him of his resignation as ambassador of Spain in London.

Franco was sitting in front of a desk in the Liria palace

that he ended up giving back.

"The National Heritage report has been presented in a surprising way and in no way is it definitive.

At the moment no one has claimed anything

and if they do, well we'll see."

Utrera-Molina points out.

The Franco spokesman assures that after the

1978 fire

, which destroyed the pazo, the dictator's daughter rebuilt it

.

"Carmen Franco did not go to Ikea to buy the furniture,

she went to antique dealers. There will be furniture that is good, old, but that does not mean that they are National Heritage and if they are, that she claims them, that she has not. Can anyone think that the tapestries indicated in the report can withstand a fire? It is absurd. That it was upholstered again with a fabric that is the same as one that is in National Heritage, because surely yes, but I neither affirm nor deny it " he points out.

Image of the pazo, last Thursday, after the delivery of the key.ROSA GONZÁLEZ

Another of the property's jewels is the library of Emilia Pardo Bazán, which the Francos say was

donated to their grandfather by the widow of Jaime Quiroga

, the son of the writer, after he was murdered along with his grandson in a Czech in Madrid.

For now, the family's lawyers have asked the Court of First Instance number 1 of A Coruña to

specify what assets they can remove from the pazo

and have appealed the order that agrees that the State is the depositary of the furniture until there is a final judgment.

The war is going on for a long time

.

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