Linares Palace (Madrid)
Linares Palace, originally known as Murga Palace, is located between Alcalá Street and Paseo de los Recoletos. It is a huge building of more than 3,000 square meters that was originally the residence of the Marquises of Linares.
After the purchase of the immense plot in 1872, the first Marquises of Linares, José de Murga y Reolid and Raimunda de Osorio y Ortega, assigned the design of the palace to the architect Carlos Colubí under a previous design by the famous French architect Adolf Ombrecht and with the collaboration of Manuel Aníbal Álvarez.
The construction, which lasted from 1877 to 1900, is characterized by ornate features and high-quality materials, resulting in a palace of enormous value, both monetary and artistic.
The palace is full of finely finished details, such as its impressive main staircase, built with Carrara marble, and the stylized finishes of the second floor, which present Pompeian motifs. It also has an infinite number of Rococo decorations, valuable Louis XV and Louis XVI furniture, a great variety of exotic woods on its floors, Chinese silks and Gobelin tapestries.
In addition, the Linares Palace abounds in works of art by Francisco Pradilla, Alejandro Ferrant, Manuel Domínguez, Casto Plasencia, Jerónimo Suñol and Valeriano Domínguez Bécquer, among others.
After almost a century of abandonment, it underwent a thorough restoration and reopened in 1992 as the House of America. In 2017, the Prado Museum donated two portraits (the works of Francisco Pradilla) of the marquises. The original decor was later completed by the addition of valuable tapestries.
Linares Palace is one of the most spectacular late-19th-century heritage monuments in Madrid.
After the purchase of the immense plot in 1872, the first Marquises of Linares, José de Murga y Reolid and Raimunda de Osorio y Ortega, assigned the design of the palace to the architect Carlos Colubí under a previous design by the famous French architect Adolf Ombrecht and with the collaboration of Manuel Aníbal Álvarez.
The construction, which lasted from 1877 to 1900, is characterized by ornate features and high-quality materials, resulting in a palace of enormous value, both monetary and artistic.
The palace is full of finely finished details, such as its impressive main staircase, built with Carrara marble, and the stylized finishes of the second floor, which present Pompeian motifs. It also has an infinite number of Rococo decorations, valuable Louis XV and Louis XVI furniture, a great variety of exotic woods on its floors, Chinese silks and Gobelin tapestries.
In addition, the Linares Palace abounds in works of art by Francisco Pradilla, Alejandro Ferrant, Manuel Domínguez, Casto Plasencia, Jerónimo Suñol and Valeriano Domínguez Bécquer, among others.
After almost a century of abandonment, it underwent a thorough restoration and reopened in 1992 as the House of America. In 2017, the Prado Museum donated two portraits (the works of Francisco Pradilla) of the marquises. The original decor was later completed by the addition of valuable tapestries.
Linares Palace is one of the most spectacular late-19th-century heritage monuments in Madrid.
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