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Façade of the Casa de la Panadería. The Casa de la Panadería is a municipal and cultural building on the north side of the Plaza Mayor in Madrid.It is four stories high, the ground floor comprising porticos and the top floor in the form of an attic, with its sides crowned by angular towers.
The House of Gallardo (Spanish: Casa Gallardo) is a building located in Madrid, Spain. Projected by Federico Arias Rey, it is one of the relatively few modernista buildings preserved in Madrid. [1] It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1997. [1] It is located in calle de Ferraz 2, [1] near the plaza de España.
Miracle of the Virgin of Atocha during the construction works of the Casa de la Villa (late 17th-century). It was known as "Plaza de San Salvador" in ancient times, as it was located near the (now defunct) Church of San Salvador, in whose atrium the primitive municipal council convened [ 1 ] (the church was demolished in 1842). [ 2 ]
The last of the performances in the Plaza Mayor, held in 1992, consisted of mural decoration, the work of Carlos Franco, of the Casa de la Panadería, which represents mythological figures such as the goddess Cibeles. Today, the Plaza Mayor is a major tourist spot, but is also celebrated by the citizens of Madrid and has become a piece of ...
The site of modern-day Madrid has been occupied since prehistoric times, [30] [31] [32] and there are archaeological remains of the Celtic Carpetani settlement, Roman villas, [33] a Visigoth basilica near the church of Santa María de la Almudena [34] and three Visigoth necropolises near Casa de Campo, Tetuán and Vicálvaro. [35]
Following the refurbishment of the Palacio de Comunicaciones and the move of the municipal premises to the former (a process finished in 2011), the Casa de la Villa was left with little use. [4] It currently houses some offices of the different municipal groups represented at the Plenary and it is used for official receptions. [5]
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Particularly characteristic of this movement was the demolition of the old la Cebada market, opened in 1875 to replace and institutionalize open-air sale in La Plaza de la Cebada and to satisfy the new modernist taste. Health problems, lack of historical consciousness and mid-twentieth century aesthetics led to the demolition of the original ...