Royal Factory of La Moncloa

Later that year General Hill took his troops from Madrid to join the main army under Wellington near Alba de Tormes.

Production resumed after the absolutist restoration, but at a new site in the Moncloa district of Madrid in a building which had once been a villa of the Alva family on the Manzanares River.

[3] Founded by Ferdinand VII,[4] the factory was patronized by his second wife, Queen Maria Isabel of Portugal.

In order to meet the requirements of the factory's pottery industry with technically trained personnel, a school of ceramic arts (Escuela de Cerámica Artística) was established in Moncloa, as well as a factory for the production of fine loza.

[7] Subsidy grants to run the schools were formalized in 1914 through a royal decree under the title "Escuela de Ceramica Artistica".