Overview

• Xunta’s €3,000 sanction for failing to open Casa Cornide under its 2023 Bien de Interés Cultural status has been declared firm
• The decision ends the administrative process and allows the Franco heirs to challenge the penalty in contentious-administrative courts
• A visitation plan approved on May 12 mandates access to the 18th-century mansion four days each month in groups of five from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Casa Cornide entered the Franco estate in 1962 through a manipulated subasta after serving as municipal and state property
• A Coruña’s city council is pursuing annulment of Franco-era decrees to recover the mansion for public patrimony