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Palacio De Liria, Mardrid

El Palacio de Liria is a large building of XVIII century, residence of the House of Alba in Madrid and principal of his art collection and its archive, both of extraordinary value. Located in the numbers of the current 20-22 Princess Street , in an area formerly known as “Quarter of the Afflicted.” In this mansion that is the largest private house in Madrid (3,500 m2) and their gardens are the only privately owned listed highlighted in green in all levels of the city.

Palacio de Liria is an 18th-century palace of the Duchess of Alba, Read the rest of this entry »


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Palacio de Dueñas- Saville

El Palacio de las Dueñas is a city building in Spanish in Sevilla ( Andalusia ) and currently sits on the House of Alba . It was built between the XV and XVI and is a major historic homes in the city of great architectural and artistic for their valuable content. In this place was born the famous poet Antonio Machado .

History

The palace was founded by the family Pineda , who they had to sell in the years 1484 to Doña Catalina de Ribera money for urgent needs: they must pay a ransom by Don Juan de Pineda, taken prisoner by the Moors. The building became the property of the House of Alba after the marriage of the V Marchioness of Villanueva del Rio with the Duke of Alba IV . Here was born Carlos Falco , Marques de Griñón and Marquis Castelmoncayo ( Grandee of Spain ).

Its name comes from the monastery of Santa Maria de las Dueñas, which 1248 became known as Company of Dueñas , whose nuns were in charge of serving Queens and wives of kings San Fernando and Alfonso X el Sabio . This building was in the periphery and was destroyed in 1868 . It has been renovated over the centuries XVIII and XIX .

Building

The palace has many courtyards and buildings and offers several architectural styles: Gothic, Mudejar and Renaissance, containing samples and details with touches of Seville in the bricks, shingles, tiles, whitewashed and ceramics .It is decorated with mosaics, tiles, roof tiles and bricks with a touch of Seville, just as the House of Pilate , a picturesque Andalusian patio. In the arc of the main entrance to the palace you can see the shield of the Duchy of Alba in tile seventeenth century.

It has a typical Andalusian courtyard , like the House Pilate, and dominates the great outdoors, showing the majesty of a whole.

Behind the garden leads to a beautiful courtyard surrounded by arches with columns of white marble, adorned with pillars holding platerescos, plateresco a frieze showing too. On top of this gallery with arches built another Mudejar style.On this gallery with arches built another Mudejar style. The palace has at the bottom to one side of the gallery, a chapel, whose high altar is adorned with ceramic tiles and typically Seville.

Upstairs is a luxurious salon gold octagonal roof and paneled ceiling. The palace has undergone several reforms in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its main attraction is the art collection it houses. In one of its rooms Antonio Machado was born and lived.

At the entrance to the palace you can see the shield of the Duchy of Alba in tile manufacturing Triana of the seventeenth century or eighteenth century, in the main arch.

The arc west of the courtyard in the lower galleries giving access to the building that was used as a chapel of the palace, also is Plateresque. The altar of the chapel contains several tiles with metallic reflections, typical of the sixteenth century Seville ceramics.

Climbing the top floor of the palace dominates a room whose ceiling is of octagonal shape of alfarje gold, sits on a painted frieze in the Renaissance style.

Art collection

One of its main attractions is the large and decorative art collection which contains, according to an inventory of the Junta de Andalucía amounts to 1,425 pieces, including works of art, furniture and other antiques. The newspaper El Pais (04/10/21) these goods have been subject to the laws of Andalusia, which prohibits the sale and forces holding them together in the palace.

It is important to the whole of Spanish art in the nineteenth and twentieth century’s ( Mariano Benlliure , Federico de Madrazo, Sorolla , Zuloaga , Gonzalo Bilbao , Carmen Laffón ), but has some previous pieces Dueñas: Jacopo Bassano ( The Crockery ), Sofonisba Anguissola , Annibale Carracci , Francesco Furini ( The Creation of Eve ), Luca Giordano , Giovanni Paolo Pannini , José de Ribera ( Christ crowned with thorns ), Francisco Antolínez , Joaquín Inza and a Virgin of Neri di Bicci (who chairs the altar of the chapel) . They are only a portion of the huge gallery belonging to this family, whose main jewels are kept in Madrid in the Palacio de Liria .

Dueñas likewise accumulated abundant antique furniture, ceramics, tapestries and many more decorative objects. Also preserves a drawing to watercolor by Jackie Kennedy during one of his stays in the 1960′s .

Trivia

On the entrance wall, a plaque indicates that one of the premises rented by the administrator of the parents of Duke Antonio Machado , was born and spent his childhood, the poet, and this is reflected in one of his writings:

“My childhood memories are of a courtyard in Seville, and a mature garden clear where the lemon; my youth, twenty years in the land of Castile; my story, sometimes I do not remember. “

In the early twentieth century the family of the engineer and Marquis Guglielmo Marconi , inventor of the telegraph, wireless, enjoyed the beautiful evening that organized the Dukes of Alba in the palace.


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Take A Tour – Paseo de la Plaza del Salvador to Palace of the Countess of Lebrija

This tour will visit historic downtown streets with some of the most traditional of Seville and have the opportunity to meet unique monuments of artistic importance.

Start: Plaza del Salvador
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Palacio de la Condesa de Lebrija, Seville

The Lebrija Palace or Palace of the Countess of Lebrija or El Palacio de la Condesa de Lebrija can be found in one of Seville city centre’s busiest street, ‘Calle Cuna’, Read the rest of this entry »

Palacio de Aduana- Málaga

The Palacio de la Aduana (“Customs Palace”) is a building in Málaga, Andalusia, Spain, originally a customs house for the Port of Málaga.

The building was proposed by Manuel Martín Rodríguez, nephew and disciple of Ventura Rodríguez, in 1787 and approved by Charles III of Spain. Work began in 1791 under the direction of administrator general of Customs Pedro Ortega Monroy and architects Miguel del Castillo and Read the rest of this entry »

Museo Picasso Málaga


Most visitors to Málaga go to the Picasso museum and his house, as the painter is the most famous son of the city, but there’s a new art museum now which focuses on Andalucian art – the Museo Carmen Thyssen.

The Museo Picasso Málaga is a museum in Málaga, Andalusia, Spain, the city where artist Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born. One of the world’s many Picasso museums, Read the rest of this entry »

“The One-Armed Lady”- Cathedral of Málaga

 


Cathedral of Málaga is Renaissance church in Málaga, Andalusia, and southern Spain , popularly known as “La Manquita”, the little one-armed lady . It is located inside the limits that the missing Arab wall marked, forming a great architectonic Read the rest of this entry »

Santiago Bernabéu Stadium – Visit the Home to Real Madrid

The Estadio Santiago Bernabéu (Spanish pronunciation: [esˈtaðjo sanˈtjaɣo βernaˈβeu]) is an all-seater football stadium in Madrid, Spain. It was inaugurated on 14 December 1947 and is owned by Real Madrid Club de Fútbol. It has a current capacity of 85,454 spectators.

The legendary stadium of Santiago Bernabéu, home to Real Madrid, is the city’s most popular tourist attraction, ahead of the Prado Museum! The tour includes a visit of the changing rooms, the presidential balcony, the stands, the substitutes’ and coaches’ benches, the press room, Read the rest of this entry »

Pyramids at Güímar – Tenerife, Spain

 

The Pyramids of Güímar refer to six rectangular pyramid-shaped, terraced structures, built from lava stone without the use of mortar. They are located in the district of Chacona, Read the rest of this entry »

Santa Cruz de Tenerife Auditorium, Spain

Santa Cruz, the bustling capital of Tenerife is situated on the coast of the island in the north and has plenty to offer with places to visit and things to do as well as boasting an excellent shopping centre. Santa Cruz is in an ideal location with the sea in front and the Anaga mountains Read the rest of this entry »