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{{Short description|Spanish 17th-century military engineer}}
{{Infobox person
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| name = Alonso Turrillo de Yebra
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| nationality = {{ESP}}
| occupation = Military, Architect, Superintendent Captaincy & Governor
| era = [[16th
| known_for = Cartagena & Santa Fé Mint
| title =
| successor = [[Antonio
| spouse = Maria de Vergara Azcárate
}}
'''Alonso Turrillo de Yebra''' was a Spanish military engineer and architect, at the service of the kings [[Philip II of Spain|Felipe II]], [[Philip III of Spain|Felipe III]] and [[Philip IV of Spain|Felipe IV]]. Turrillo became the first royal treasurer of [[Madrid]] in 1607 and later arrived to the [[new Kingdom of Granada]] in 1621 with a royal order that accredited him to create the first Mint of ''[[Casa de la Moneda de Colombia|Casa de la Moneda]]'' or ''[[Old Mint of Colombia|Casa de Moneda]]'' is
Turillo was an official in [[Cartagena, Colombia|Cartagena de Indias]] and, Superintendent
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In 1607 he was at court, where he was entrusted with the plans for the construction of the ''Casa de la Moneda del Pósito'' in [[Madrid]]. In 1611 he was proposed to go to [[Milan]]. As a consequence of his well-earned fame as an architect, in 1613 the [[Duke of Uceda]] asked him to build a palace for him at Court, a palace that ended in 1619 and was highly criticized at the time for its 'strange novelty'. In 1618 he carried out the project of stakes to close the bar of [[Mehdya, Morocco|La Mamora]] (current Moroccan city of [[Mehdya, Morocco|Mehdía]]).
His experience in the construction of buildings for the crown or the nobility would motivate him to be sent to [[Bogotá|Santa Fe de Bogotá]], in the [[New Kingdom of Granada]], in 1620 to build a Mint there. In this regard, according to the Royal Decree issued in Madrid on June 10, 1620.<ref>Economía colombiana : revista de la Contraloría General de la República. (1977). Colombia: La Contraloría. Page 76</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lasser |first=Joseph R. |date=1992 |title=The Cobs of Cartagena, 1622-1655 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43580425 |journal=American Journal of Numismatics
Turrillo set out for Santa Fe with various officials, personal belongings, tools, and instruments for the work of the currency. It is known that there are coins of 8 reales minted in Cartagena of the year 1621, which had to be made sometime between August and no later than December of that year.
By Royal Decree of 24 August 1626 addressed to [[Diego de Escobar y Osorio|Diego de Escobar]], Governor of [[Cartagena, Colombia|Cartagena]], the authorisation for the minting of vellón coins was rescinded, authorising the minting of silver coins, but restricted to the values of 1/4, 1/2, 1 and 2 reales. Minting began that year in Cartagena, and despite not having authorization, gold was also chipped. Due to this, by order of the Santa Fe audience it was closed in 1629. Later, the Spanish monarch ordered its reopening in 1630, lifting the restriction. The mint minted gold and silver coins of the ''[[macuquina]]'' type with very rough workmanship until 1635, when it was closed by Royal Decree.<ref>{{Cite web |last=jsoage |title=The Cartagena de Indias Mint |url=https://www.enumismatic.com/mints-history/cartagena-de-indias/en/the-mint-of-cartagena-de-indias |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=eNumismatic |language=en}}</ref>
Given the endemic problem of lack of drinking water in [[Havana]], one of the various systems used consisted of transporting water from the [[Almendares River|Almendares]] or Chorrera rivers through ditches or pipes that avoided the cumbersome and slow system used until then. However, it was not easy to carry it out, since, as was the case in many cases, jurisdictional and administrative problems delayed it until 1566, when the fortification master, Francisco de Colona,
In 1625 went to [[Cádiz]], where he received the order to go to the port of [[La Mamora]] in order to study the possible closure of his bar, a commission from which Turrillo excused himself, citing his many obligations. Finally, in 1629 he was ordered to go to [[Cartagena, Colombia|Cartagena de Indias]], for everything appropriate to its fortification, for which he had to embark on the navy of D. [[Fadrique de Toledo, 1st Marquess of Valdueza|Fadrique de Toledo]]. Between 1631 and 1634 he held the position of governor of the province of [[Antioquia Department|Antioquia]] and it seems that he was the first to introduce a carriage in Bogotá.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alonso Turrillo de Yebra {{!}} Real Academia de la Historia |url=https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/83202/alonso-turrillo-de-yebra |access-date=2023-05-23 |website=dbe.rah.es}}</ref><ref>Cartagena MMXXI – the 3rd International Convention of Historians and Numismatists news release.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=personajeshistoricosblog |date=2016-10-13 |title=Alonso Trujillo de Yebra |url=https://personajeshistoricosblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/13/alonso-trujillo-de-yebra/ |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=Personajes Históricos de Cartagena de Indias. |language=es}}</ref>
His relative, [[Antonio Vergara Azcárate y Dávila|Antonio de Vergara Azcárate]] inherited the title of Treasurer and took over the royal job for 50 years.<ref>{{Cite journal |
The museum was founded by the military engineer Turrillo Yebra Alonso in the seventeenth century.
It
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== External links ==▼
|+Colonial Treasurers [[Casa de la Moneda de Colombia|Casa de la Moneda]] - ''Mint'' ''House of Coin'' of Santafe
|'''Founded (1620-1683)'''Alonso Turrillo de Yebra
* [https://www.museomilitarco.com/en/the-museum/ Military Museum Of Colombia]<ref name="auto"/>▼
|(1637-1683)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Offices, ranks and kinship. Workers at the Santafé Mint 1620-1816 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/300082265}}</ref>
'''Antonio de Vergara Azcárate'''
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060924025051/http://www.banrep.gov.co/billetes_monedas/bm_impt.html House of Coin]▼
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== References ==
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▲== External links ==
▲* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060924025051/http://www.banrep.gov.co/billetes_monedas/bm_impt.html House of Coin (Archived)]
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