Session of the Juntas Generales de Vizcaya (Foral Parliament of Biscay).

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Spain, Basque Country, Biscay, Bilbao. Session of the Juntas Generales de Vizcaya (Foral Parliament of Biscay). Sessions were held, for the first time, in the assembly hall of the Institute in Bilbao. The act was presided by a portrait of King Alfonso XII. The last session took place on the night of October 7, 1876. Previously these sessions were held, according to jurisdiction, in the Tree of Guernica (Gernika). At the end of the Carlist wars in 1876, the Juntas Generales were abolished along with the rest of the chartered regime. Engraving. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, October 22, 1876.

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