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We define and study the variety of reductions for a complex reductive symmetric pair (G, θ), which is the natural compactification of the set of its Cartan subspaces. These varieties generalize the varieties of reductions for the Severi varieties studied by Iliev and Manivel, which are Fano varieties. We develop a theoretical basis to the study of these varieties of reductions, and relate their geometry...