Antonio Maura y Montaner (Palma de Mallorca, May 2, 1853 - Madrid, December 13, 1925) was Prime Minister of Spain on two separate occasions: Official Portrait of Antonio Maura Montaner This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ... 1853 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Prime Minister, or President of the Government (Spanish: Presidente del Gobierno), of Spain is the Spanish head of government. ...

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• January 25, 1907 to October 21, 1909

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Biography

Born into a rich family, he studied law in Madrid. He was a prolific watercolorist and often painted scenes of nature or old buildings from a simpler era. He entered the Cortes in 1881 as a liberal delegate for Majorca, but later joined the Conservative party. In 1886 he held the position of vice-president of the Congress. As prime minister, he attempted to carry out a reform plan, but this was fiercely opposed by the liberals. He fell from power after the brutal suppression of an uprising in Barcelona in 1909, called the Tragic Week. His abilities and authoritarian personality made him the hero of a semi-Fascist youth movement (Mauristas); however, when he later headed coalition cabinets with other parties (1918, 1919, 1921–22), he did nothing to advance non-democratic methods. Many of his followers later supported the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera, but he remained aloof from the new regime. Hernán Cortés, 16th century Spanish conquistador Pablo Cortés, 18th century Spanish slave trader Corte (disambiguation), for the judicial bodies of the Spanish-speaking Americas, and the communes in France and Italy Cortes Generales (General Courts), usually just las Cortes, national legislative assembly of Spain The term Cortes... Majorca (Mallorca in Catalan and Spanish, sometimes also encountered in English),: from Latin insula maior, later Maiorica, (major island) is one of the Balearic Islands (Catalan: Illes Balears, Spanish: Islas Baleares), which are located in the Mediterranean Sea and are a part of Spain. ... Location Coordinates : Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Barcelona (Catalan) Spanish name Barcelona Nickname Ciutat Comtal (Catalan) Ciudad Condal (Spanish) Postal code 08001-08080 Area code 34 (Spain) + 93 (Barcelona) Website http://www. ... The Tragic Week (in Catalan, la Setmana Tràgica; in Spanish, la Semana Trágica) (July 25-August 2, 1909) is the name used for a series of bloody confrontations between the working classes of Barcelona and other cities of Catalonia, backed by the anarchists, communists and republicans, and the... Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... Spanish dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marqués de Estella (Jerez, January 8, 1870 - Paris, March 16, 1930) was a Spanish military official who ruled Spain as a dictator from 1923 to 1930, ending the turno system of alternating parties. ...

Antonio Maura came into the political arena founding a party to fight "caciques" culture which he rightly considered as the cancer of Hispanic political groups and the obstacle towards liberal and democratic institutions. It is a cancer that keeps going to our days in the whole of Hispano-American political groups, spreading nepotism and corruption. When Antonio Maura was Prime Minister of king Alfonso XIII, he spent summer in the estate of Can Mossenya [an historic part of the Royal Chartreuse of Jesus of Nazareth where Chopin and George Sand had also been the previous century]. Azorín who admired him very much at the time, travel from the continent to meet Maura. The International Foundation Can Mossenya - Friends of Jorge Luis Borges has name a entrace to its historic estate "Gate of Friendship - Azorín and Maura" after this encounter which left a brief book where Azorín notes his impressions of this travel to meet Maura.

Descendants

• Actress Carmen Maura
• Miguel Maura
• Jorge Semprún-Maura, former Education secretary of Spain during the Premiership of Felipe González
• Carlos Semprún-Maura, writer and journalist, brother to Jorge. Both lived in Paris as their father was a republican general who went into exile after they lost in the Spanish Civil War.

Carmen Maura Carmen Maura is a Spanish actress. ...

See also

• Politics of Spain
• List of Spanish monarchs
• History of Spain

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References

External links

• International Foundation Can Mossenya - Friends of Jorge Luis Borges

• Hostal Can Marió