The Tavera Hospital was the setting for the inauguration and official visit of the 1st National Conference on the Pharmacy Office, which was attended by the Mayor of Toledo, Carlos Velázquez Romo. This event, held on 16 October and organised by the General Council of Pharmacists' Associations, highlighted the important healthcare role of the community pharmacist. This approach has a strong historical link with the foundation of the hospital in the 16th century, when Cardinal Tavera established this space in order to provide health care to a deeply impoverished society.
During the visit, a special highlight was the tour of the apothecary's shop, the only room in the hospital that still conserves its original use and even the location given to it by the imperial architect, Alonso de Covarrubias, in the first plans of 1540. Participants were able to admire an extensive collection of albarelos, daggerboards, mortars, and the well-known "apothecary's eyeThe most expensive drugs were stored in an eighteenth-century cupboard.
