Another law firm, this time the British-Australian firm Herbert Smith Freehills, occupies the Palace designed in 1905 by Tomás Gómez-Acebo y Retortillo and built from 1906 to 1908 as a mansion for Don Julio Castanedo. Eclectic in style, it has a strong French influence and outstanding neo-Gothic ironwork.
Autumn in one of the best forests on the Peninsula: Los Montes de Quinto Real and the Irati Valley. Hiking tours to enjoy the landscape that the gentle Navarrese mountains offer us.
This December Long Weekend we have a hiking trip through the Levante Almeria and the Sierra de los Filabres, mountains and beaches, sun, the Mediterranean and a movie landscape.
This December Long Weekend we have a bicycle trip through the Levante Almería and the Sierra de los Filabres, mountains and beaches, sun, the Mediterranean and a movie landscape.
The tradition of the San Antón festival is still maintained today, celebrated on January 17, in which the animals are blessed and the saint's bread rolls are sold. That day hundreds of Madrid residents take their pets to church to be blessed.
It was the work of architects José L. Esteban Penelas and Emilio Esteras Martín. A very interesting place, in the centre of the park, where we often don't see anyone and which I'm sure many Madrid residents don't know about. If this is your case, now is a very good time to visit.
Work of Juan de Villanueva, built between 1784 and 17891. Both for the materials used, granite and brick, its horizontality, its linearity and the hierarchy of facades that it establishes make this casino by Villanueva a small antecedent of the Prado Museum building.
It was built in the early 20th century in a neo-Renaissance style with Spanish regionalist elements. Some of its most characteristic elements are its Arabic tile roofs and glazed tiles.
It was designed by the Madrid architect Salvador Pérez Arroyo in 1990. It was built in 1992, coinciding with Madrid being designated as the European Cultural Capital.
Today we are going to focus on two adjacent buildings with a common history, the Hospital of San José and headquarters of the Homeopathic Institute, and the Palace of the Marquis of los Salados, located on Eloy Gonzalo Street.
For this reason we are going to focus on a masterpiece from the Prado. A work by Velázquez and possibly one of the most famous and reproduced works by Velázquez: The Triumph of Bacchus.
