The writer married in the chapel - which she called "Granja de Meirás" - 5 on 10 July 1868 and, once the remodelling was complete, spent more than four months there every year.

When in residence, she worked in the tower that she called "de la chimera", where her library was installed and remains in the present building.

In August 1936, after the Federación Anarquista Ibérica (Iberian Anarchist Federation) murdered Jaime and his son also called Jaime in Madrid, the building came into control of his widow Manuela Esteban-Collantes and Emilia's daughter Blanca Quiroga de Pardo Bazán.

With the Spanish Civil War now raging, in 1938 the pazo was taken over by the Nationalist faction, for it to be used as a summer residence by General Francisco Franco.

[3] She arranged a visit to the property with other MEPs including Jill Evans (of the Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru).

[5] In September 2020, a judge ordered the family to return the Pazo de Meirás, ruling that it had been given to Franco in 1938 in his role as head of state and not in a personal capacity.