Today we are going to Plaza de la Villa, to tell you about one of the most symbolic buildings in the city and the oldest civil building in Madrid. A memory of our city's medieval past.

De Moorish style, with a door with a horseshoe arch (probably the only one in Madrid) in the tower on the façade of the elbow street, a large stately mansion and the robust tower, topped by a turret with a hipped roof. The house, with an irregular floor plan and a central patio, was rebuilt by Juan de Luján in 1494, and the Lujanes family resided there. It has a splendid stone doorway that overlooks the plaza where the coat of arms of the Luján family are preserved.

As it was one of the tallest buildings in the capital, at the beginning of the 1858th century the tower was chosen to locate an optical telegraph station on the Madrid-Aranjuez line. Since XNUMX it became the headquarters of several companies and entities, such as the Matritense Economic Society of Friends of the Country, the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences or the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences, this fact, except for the tower of an uncertain future, had gone through a long process of deterioration and becoming the headquarters of the academy certified its conservation.

Subsequent renovations have returned the complex to its stately appearance, a living past full of history in the center of Madrid, essential on your visit to Madrid.

A abrazo.