| In the nineteenth century the casinos and circulos , were the meeting place for people of similar socio-economic, professional and political conditions :the members went to them to keep a chat, to read the press, to play a game of pool and card games, or have a snack in the company of friends, something like English clubs. The casinos, were private clubs for the sociability of bourgeois and aristocratic classes. Despite its regulations banned the gambling, the same was present in almost the casinos. The new local bourgeois society, arising from the slipstream of railway construction, and traditional landowning families, created the Cirulo Emeritense. They commissioned a classical building to house its headquarters. It was concluded in 1897 |
