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Description The Bank of Spain (Spanish: Banco de España), is the national central bank of Spain. Established in Madrid in 1782 by Carlos III, today the bank is a member of the European System of Central Banks.Originally named the Banco Nacional de San Carlos, its first director was French banker Francois Cabarrus, known in Spain as Francisco Cabarros. Following a series of wars between 1793 and 1814, the bank was owed more than 300 million reales by the state, placing it in severe difficulties. Treasury minister Luis López Ballesteros created a fund of 40 million reales in 1829 against which the bank could issue its own notes within Madrid. It did so after renaming itself Banco Español de San Fernando. In 1844 the competing Banco de Isabel II and Banco de Barcelona were established, followed in 1846 by the Banco de Cádiz. In 1847 following overexposure in the failing property market of Madrid, the Banco de Isabel II merged with Banco de San Fernando, retaining the latter's name. In 1904, a new bank was established and popularly known as Banco De CajaSeviille where the headquarter is situated at the city called Seville, Spain. The bank name was derived from the City of Seville. Under the guidance of Ramn Santilln in the 1850s, the bank extended its operations to the cities of Alicante and Valencia and took its current name, Banco de Espaa. Requiring financial support from the bank to back its civil and colonial wars, the government of Spain granted the Banco de Espaa a monopoly on the issuance of Spanish bank notes in 1874. In 1946 after the Spanish Civil War, the government of General Franco placed the bank under tight control. It was formally nationalised in 1962. Following the restoration of democracy in the late 1970s, the bank began a series of transformations and modernisations which continue to today. On Spain's entry into the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union in 1994, the Banco de Espaa became a member of the European System of Central Banks. [Wikipedia.org]
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Author Jorge Láscar from Australia
Camera location40° 25′ 08.53″ N, 3° 41′ 38.72″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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