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Ejército de Tierra

Coat of arms of the Operational Logistic Force

Operational Logistics Force (FLO)

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ATOCHA BASE

 Coat of arms of the CG. FLO.

 
   

The Atocha base, formerly Façade of the Atocha Basethe Infantry Barraqcks “Principe Alfonso” and prior to this known as the “Alfonso XII headquarters” is set in the middle of a nine-hectare plot of land which the Ministry of War kept in 1840 following the demolition of the stone walls which protected the high part of A Coruña where the former Military Hospital of the parrote was also built. 

 

The military building is near Plaza de María Pita. It was built in 1864.

 Infantry parade ground

It is divided into two equal parts with two large patios with arches. It has three parts along the main façade and the same at the back, except for the wings which border the patios with only one section. It has one floor of 175 x 60 metres and it has a surface of 22.262m2. In total, it has a surface of 55.190m2 distributed between the three floors, as well as sewerage systems.

 

The construction commenced in the month of June 1859 directed by Colonel Joaquín Montenegro,

Anteroom of the colonel´s office

the Field Marshall being Mr. Anastasio Alesón. It was completed in 1864 and was handed to the Square on the 31st of December in the same year. Its budget reached 1.928.833 pesetas at the time. The style chosen by the architect is similar to the neoclassical style, with a harsh façade, horizontal in design with a stone plinth on which enormous pilasters sit, with white washed walls and attics at the top.

indoor stairsThe building has barely undergone any changes in more than one hundred and fifty years of history and proved essential in the design of this part of the city in years to come, including the execution of the new Local Palace of María Pita and other constructions undertaken near the square which was almost abandoned at the end of the nineteenth century.

 

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