Royal Chapel of the Pardo Palace
Carlier's main action in El Pardo was the renovation of the palace built by the Habsburgs, to accommodate the family of Philip V.
Carlier's main action in El Pardo was the renovation of the palace built by the Habsburgs, to accommodate the family of Philip V.
It occupies the land of the "El Olivar de la Hinojosa" estate, which initially gave its name to the project, although it was finally renamed Juan Carlos I Park.
Autumn in one of the best forests on the Peninsula: Los Montes de Quinto Real and the Irati Valley. Mountain bike tours to enjoy the landscape that the gentle Navarrese mountains offer us.
In 1629, Philip IV ordered the construction of this large building to house the quarters of the Hall of Mayors of the House and Court and the Court Prison.
Construction of the House of the Five Major Guilds of Madrid began in 1789. A neoclassical building with three facades in which the stone of the ground floor, the openings and the gables alternate with brick walls.
The Santoña Palace sits on a building built in the 16th century, in the last years of the reign of Charles V, on the corner of Huertas and Príncipe streets, and has a long history behind it. It was later renovated in the 18th century by the architect Pedro de Ribera, to whom we owe its magnificent façade and its current exterior image, and another major renovation in the 19th century by Antonio Ruiz de Salces.
Via Michelangelo offers us several interesting buildings. Today we are going to focus on number 25, where the main entrance and the carriage entrance of the Palace of the Marquises of Borghetto are located.
The commission was for a building intended for rental housing on the recently renamed Doctor Esquerdo Street. It was known as the Housing Building for Don Antonio Garay.
The island of Lanzarote, volcanic like the rest of the Canary Islands, offers us a mosaic of colors, from green to blue, from ocher to black. On our bike tours we will cross through lava, jable, sand or picón, under a special light that will quickly make us forget the cold of December. A route suitable for people who have an average level of cycling.
The first stone of the temple was laid on December 26, 1902. The person in charge of the design was the architect Eugenio Jiménez Correa, also the designer of the Church of San Fermín de los Navarros. Jiménez Correa was in charge of the work until his death in 1910. The architect Jesús Carrasco completed the church in the Salamanca district.
The Parque del Oeste is reputed to be the oldest public park in Madrid. It was created on lands of the former Royal Site of La Florida, one of the properties that the Crown owned around Madrid.