El Viajero
A health center that tells a story
It is known as The Granary Office and Health Center. But its outside tells its history, it involves many mansions that were adapted for function. I do not know why it seems that the word purpose is lost in time. At least the friends I've asked confuse it with a hospice, a medieval institution of charity where abandoned babies and orphans welcomed. The purpose was born in 1530, under Emperor Charles V, although this state institution was soon taken over by the municipalities. Its mission was similar to that made silos, those buildings currently lacking utility and nobody know what to convert. In the deposits was deposited bourgeois cereal and distributed it among the peasants in times of scarcity.
This method took very hungry, for they kept in times of abundance to mitigate the frequent famines. The purpose of Arcos has a Baroque facade, entrance lintel under broken pediment with coat of arms, a three-story facade indicating their origin Andalus. The small hall immediately gives way to a very small central courtyard around which existing distributed queries.
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