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Royal Hospital of Saint Mary Magdalene
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Public hospital. Monument for outside visit.
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Other nearby places of interest are the Guitar Museum, the Cathedral of the Incarnation and the Andalusian Center of Photography.
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The hospital complex originally was made up of three naves linked together. forming a U, with a main façade, one side open and the other closed. Nowadays it is It is made up of three main attached buildings: the hospital, the chapel and the hospice. Since its construction, the hospital had several uses as a storage place, granary and military barracks and was later converted into a military barracks. It was run by various hands until the French occupation during the War of Independence. Until the 1920s, in the hospital we could find facilities such as the leprosarium, the dressing pit, the laundry room, the stove room, the Surgery room, the St. Christopher room, and the lathe, an iron door that was left open at night to for the sick to pass through. The exterior stands out for its doorway flanked by Ionic pilasters with an entablature and a central balcony topped by a curved pediment.
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The Royal Hospital of Almedina was created by order of Bishop Fray Diego Fernández de Villalán in the year 1547 to replace the old Hospital Viejo located on a medieval Muslim house that was located in very bad conditions. The new building, the work of Juan de Orea and Hernando de Salinas, was completed It was built in the year 1556 and despite its many changes and restorations that have occurred throughout history, it is still intact. cataloged as Asset of Cultural Interest since 2007 and currently it is part of the hospitals managed by the Andalusian Health Service integrated into the Torrecárdenas Hospital Complex.
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