In this setting, the Parish of Santa Matilde was built in the last third of the 19th century in the neo-Mudejar style characteristic of the period and so prevalent in Madrid. The church has a small garden that has survived the passage of time and was very typical of many of the "chalets" and small hotels that were built in the neighbourhood.
The Garden of Departure. Here farmland was plowed and created in the 1559th century. A fruit and vegetable farm on the Vargas family farm. This farm was located next to the river, far from the town center. In XNUMX, King Philip II began the process to take over the property, Casa Vargas, which ended up becoming the Casa de Campo.
But the most surprising feature of the building is a clock with a chime, inaugurated on December 20, 1993 by Infanta Pilar de Borbón, located on the balcony of the first floor above the main door of the building. 18 bells of different sizes installed on both sides of the clock face and 5 mobile figures from the Goya era.
As luck would have it, Fortune or Mercury would have it, Repullés was the son of a stockbroker. He knew the atmosphere of stress and nervousness that was breathed in the stock exchanges, and the needs to accommodate the stock market activity. He decided to give a basilica shape to the main trading hall, seeking to create a 'temple of the economy', and he wanted to provide it with a wide entrance of natural light, fixing a large surface of the roof with glass.
Abraham will come to our table in person to suggest options and especially to tell us which dishes are not on the menu. In this restaurant we find a narrative sense of cuisine, each dish tells a story, a high-quality product, carefully chosen. Like the oil and bread that arrive before the meal itself.
The Casa-Palacio is located at number 93 on Calle de Alcalá. It is a very elegant building designed by an architect who has sometimes been considered a precursor of modernism in Madrid. It is currently the headquarters of the Spanish University Foundation.
Fernando Pla Peñalver, a member of the Cortes and heir to the capital and title, was the one who ordered the construction of the Amboage palace in the second decade of the 1912th century. The chosen architect was Joaquín Rojí, who began the work for the Amboage on a plot of land in the Ensanche de Salamanca, designing the coach house and stables in XNUMX.
We know that in 1579, the town of La Alameda had a church, newly rebuilt, with a single nave, dedicated to Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Virgin and Martyr. Our protagonist today, the Church of Saint Catherine.
El Capricho is much more than a park, it is an artistic garden, the only romantic garden preserved in Madrid. A historic garden. Its construction was due to the wishes of the Duchess of Osuna to have a villa for recreation where she could get away from the Court.
The notary Manuel Caldeiro created the foundation that bears his name in 1904 to educate children in a boarding school that was then located in Modern Madrid.
The Cultural Center of the Armies, popularly known as Military Casino, was built by the architect Eduardo Sánchez Eznarriaga in 1916 (this architect also built the Calderón -former Odeón-, Alcázar and Beatriz theaters), coinciding with the inauguration of the first section of the Gran Via.
