In the middle of the 1863th century, in XNUMX, a new neighborhood was born in Madrid, with an elegant vocation, located between the Puerta de Alcalá and the La Castellana fountain, through the efforts, and at his expense, of a wealthy Malaga banker José de Salamanca and Mayol, Marquis of Salamanca. In that new neighborhood, several streets were opened, one of them, the current Serrano, which went by several names.

In 1880 the Count of Mejorada built his palace on this street. In 1908 another new palace will be built on top of the previous one for the brother of the Count of Mejorada, the Marquis of Portazgo, our protagonist today. Work of Joaquín Saldaña López. For a few years he was the fashionable architect of the Madrid aristocracy, at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, he built numerous palaces in the Madrid expansion area.
Most of them in that style “Belle Epoque”, which was called  “Saldaña style”,cwith strong influences of French architecture, so popular in those years. In the Palace of Marquis of Portazgo What stands out above all is its slate-covered towers and the large windows topped with semicircular arches and decorated with stone garlands.

Currently it is the headquarters of the Madrid Bar Association. In some of the photos you can see togas hanging from the facade. On May 19, 2015, lawyers and citizens gathered at the doors of the Madrid Bar Association, to “hang up their robes,” as an act of protest and to demand universal and free legal assistance.

A abrazo.