Fuentes3

By Fuentes3

Casona of the family Del Riego

Not sure where to start...  I´ll start with a link to an estate agent´s advert for this house: 
https://www.lancoisdoval.es/ld1371-propiedad-asturias-antigua-casona-en-venta-fresnedo-concejo-de-cabranes.html     If interested, copy and paste if it won´t open. 


And I´ll precis part of what it says:
House in the Asturian style from the year 1794, with the shield of the Del Riego family which came from an earlier 15th century building.  The house was built on the instruction of Geronimo Del Riego, elder brother of the soldier General Rafael Del Riego, prime mover in the Spanish constitution of 1812, the so- called Cadiz Constitution. General Del Riego imprisoned the king, and forced him into agreeing the new constitution. But with the aid of the French the king escaped and took his revenge by having Del Riego hung, in the Plaza de la Cebada, Madrid, in November 1823. 


I´m not now or have I ever been a historian; what follows is simply cherry-picked from the internet. That is: the context is that the Spanish had been at war with Napoleon, and the French Revolution´s influence was still strong. The Cadiz Constitution was famously (reputedly) liberal and traditionalists across Europe, still frightened by the French experience, wanted a exemplary blow against encroaching liberalisation. Del Riego suffered the consequence. 


So this house belonged to the family Del Riego, to the brother of the hanged General. It was obviously once a beautiful building but unless someone with money to invest acts quickly, it is likely to collapse. I´ve put a picture of the frontage in the extra, and you may be able to seen the physical signs in that. Close-up they´re very visible. 

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