El Corral de Comedias

The corral de comedias at Almagro

Almagro in the province of Ciudad Real

In the main square of this quiet country town, once the headquarters of the Habsburg Genoese bankers, the FĂșcares, and also the centre of the Military Orders, stands a seventeenth-century commercial theatre, a surviving corral de comedias. There were probably other such theatres throughout provincial Spain. The following pictures give an idea of what a small corral looked like, though their value as an authentic record of this kind of theatre was diminished by unrecorded repairs carried out early this century.

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