Overview
- A Coruña's First Instance court has ordered the Betanzos Property Registry to inscribe the Pazo y Torres de Meirás in the name of the Spanish State and to cancel contradictory registry entries for the 15 plots and all buildings that make up the estate.
- The registry order is the final procedural step in a seven‑year legal fight started in 2019 and follows the Supreme Court's unanimous decision that the estate served the Head of State from 1938 and could not be acquired by usucapión.
- The court auto can be challenged by a recurso de reposición within the short statutory period and must be carried out by the property registrar to convert the judicial ruling into formal title on the land register.
- Memorialist groups have accused the State and regional authorities of passivity after reporting the suspension of public visits and the removal of hundreds of movable items from the site, while the Xunta has said it can manage the pazo once safety and conservation work is done.
- With title now being regularized, key questions remain about who will run the pazo, what conservation work is required, how Cultural Heritage rules on public access will be enforced, and whether regional authorities will open the site as a space of memory.