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Palace of communications localized in plaza of Cybele Populares

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26/7/2006 17:37

2010

The palace of communications of Madrid is an emblematic building of the Madrid city. Fixed income in the plaza of Cybele, it was designed built by Anthony Palacios and Joaquín Otamendi as seat for the society of posts and telegraph of Spain.The building, in a very personal style of the two architects, that afterwards it will develop in the hospital of day laborers of Maudes, it drinks of diverse sources that it is integrated in a coherent whole: the neo-Gothic, specially the work of Viollet, you, Duc, the finds of structural sincerity and of materials of architects and engineers as Eiffel and Otto Wagner, and the passion of palaces for the regional styles spanishes, specifically the late Gothic and the Giles work of Hontañón.Fotografia Montrealais User:Montrealais http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palacio_de_Comunicaciones_de_Madrid

Real palace of Madrid Populares

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26/7/2006 17:36

2146

The Madrid real palace was the official residence of the kings of Spain until Alfonso XIII, that went the last monarch that lived it. It is put in the capital, Madrid and it rises on the ancestral home of the previous palace, king's palace call, wasted in the century XVIII.Aunque the Madrid real palace follows being the official residence of the king, which emploies it in the ceremonies of state, live in it but in a more modest residence, the palace of the Spanish musical comedy. It is one of the multiple palaces promoted for national patrimony.Of baroque/neoclassic style. Your origin is remounted to the IX century in which the Cordovan amir Muhammad I built a defensive edification. After your conquest for Alfonso VI two centuries after, the primitive Moslem castle it is transformed in a king's palace that is enlarged successively along the centuries for the corona until converting in seat of the cut with Felipe II. the ancient king's palace succumbed to a fire in the Christmas Eve of 1734 and went Philip V who want that build in this same place the palace, by symbolizing the continuity of the monarchy hispanizes with the house of Bourbon. The works began in 1738 and executed in 1755. In 1764 Carlos III established your residence in it. photograph: Osvaldo Gago - fotografar.net http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palacio_Real_de_Madrid

Source of sea Populares

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26/7/2006 17:34

2397

The source was designed by chance Rodríguez in the year 1782, and carried out between 1780 and 1784 for John paschal of size and shape of cigar, who the carried out all she in white marble, as part of the works of ordinance of the salon of the meadow. consist in a great circular basin in whose center finds to him the sea god, god of the seas, with a coil coiled in the right hand and the trident in the left, on a cart formed for an amber throw for two marine horses with tail of fish. About the cart come seals and |delfines| that throw waters to great height. The god of the waters allude to the marine that Carlos III reformed to make the more competitive and reinforce the nexus with the colonies.Taken picture for me on 9th November 2004 with a Powershot A75 Pictures canon |by| |taken| me November |on|, |nineth|, 2004 |with| to Powershot A75 ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuente_de_Neptuno |http|

Source of Cybele( with the palace of flax fields to the buttom ) Populares

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26/7/2006 17:32

2230

The Cybele source was installed in 1782 in the salon of the meadow of Madrid, near the palace of Buenavista, face on the source of sea ( at present in the center of the plaza of Cybele, between the walk of recollets and the walk of the meadow ). include to the Cybele goddess, of the country symbol, the agriculture and the fecundity, on a cart fired for lions. The current plaza is called to the plaza beginning of Madrid and in the year 1900 took the Castelar plaza name. At present it is delimited for the big buildings of the Buenavista palace ( general headquarters of the army ), palace of flax fields ( house of America ), palace of communications (posts) and bench of Spain. The curious thing is that everyone of these monuments belongs to a different ward of Madrid.Author: Miguel A. Monjas ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuente_de_Cibeles |http|

Statue of Carlos III in the garden Populares

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26/7/2006 17:30

1726

The real botanical garden of Madrid, inaugurated in 1774 , it finds in the walk of the meadow near the art gallery of the museum of the meadow, in Madrid, Spain. take shelter in three stepped terraces, plants of America and of the pacific, besides plant European. photograph: Osvaldo Gago http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Jard%C3 %ADn_Bot%C3 %A1nico_de_Madrid

Museum of the meadow Populares

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26/7/2006 17:28

1562

The museum of the meadow was conceived initial by Carlos III as natural history room. The king already had ordered to your architect, John of Villanueva, a series of singular buildings to be appointed to to the science. Would that, Villanueva projected the current museum, the botanical garden, located in the wide sketch that were carrying out in the part of the jardines of the retirement that gave facade towards the salon of the meadow, already in the area, the astronomical observatory and in the opposed sidewalk the Martínez silversmith's trade, today disappeared ( in your ancestral home constructed the one which now is ministry of healthiness ). The project of the current art gallery was passed by Carlos III in 1786.John of Villanueva got reaches to the culmination of your architectural run with the construction of this building. It is considered the more ambitious work of the Spanish neoclassicism. The works of construction went of many years of duration, along the whole Carlos IV. reign with the arrival of the frenches to Spain and the War of Independence interrupted. The building was then used for die militaries ( went quarters of mount ) and was striped of the whole lead roof that it had. In that moment it began your deterioration it increased with the years, until in the reign of Fernando VII, your Isabela spouse of Braganza wanted recover it in order that arrive to a total ruin (1818). She went the great impellatrix of this project of recovery and to her is must the final success, if it did not live to savor it because died a year before the inauguration. So much Fernando VII as Isabela of Braganza contributed with considerable sums of money belonging to him. They took to him there many painting of works and sculpture of the real palace and of other real places.Digital photo carried out for P40p, hastened of the correct weight and touched up for Nicolás Pérez ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_del_Prado |http|

Plaza of Orient. Populares

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26/7/2006 17:26

1637

Plaza put eastwards of the real palace of Madrid, and called for this of Orient.It was created for the José I Bonaparte king, which gave the orders knock down the buildings of the area in order to provide amplitude to the palace and relieve to the city.Separate of the palace properly this for the street of dancing, the recent |remodelación| has buried happiness is silent, in such a way that the plaza arrives until the facade this of the palace. The plaza finds to him limited to the east for the real theater, is adorned with sculptures of kings of Spain.http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_de_Oriente

Door of castle Populares

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26/7/2006 17:25

1627

The door of castle is a monument that is found in the plaza of the Madrid independence (Spain), in the middle of center of the city, a short distance from the main entrance to the jardines of the retirement. go through the plaza the street of castle and of it sprouts the streets of Alfonso XII, mountain and Olózaga. Your name comes of the previous Madrid exit towards castle of hayfields.The door of castle was left it builds for the Carlos III king, in order to substitute to other that it had previously in states ramshackle, formed for two turrets. The architect engineer that the built went Sabatini.Photographs taking for Zaqarbal, 07–I–2006.http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerta_de_Alcal%C3 %A1

Cathedral of the Almudena Populares

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26/7/2006 17:24

1595

The cathedral of Santa María the Almudena real is the Episcopal seat of the Madrid diocese (Spain). It deals with of a temple of 102 meters of longitude and 73 of height with a mixture of different styles: neoclassicist in the exterior, neo-Gothic in the inside and |neorrománico| in the crypt.Inside of the TechoFue sacred by Juan Pablo II in your fourth travels to Spain, on 15th June 1993. It is the first cathedral hispanizes sacred for a potato and the sacred first by Juan Pablo II outside of Roma.Está located in the center of the city. The main facade par to the plaza of the arms shop, in front of the Madrid real palace. to the lateral door it accedes for the street dances and to the crypt from the main street. unlike other cathedrals, with an orientation this, west, those of the Almudena it has a north, south orientation, bear fruit of your conception as integral part of the whole of the Madrid real palace. Is built in stone of Novelda (viper) and fine grain of the quarries of old apiary (Madrid).Carried out photo for Pablo Alberto Salguero Quiles ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catedral_de_la_Almudena |http|

Archaeological museum national Populares

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26/7/2006 17:03

1350

The Spain archaeological national museum is put in the mountain street, by sharing building with the national library and at the side of the plaza of monetary unit in Madrid.The museum based one's opinion on 1867 for real decree of Isabel II. your creation was motivated for the need of disposes of a where museum, just as in the remaining European countries, could be kept, classify and expose the archaeological, ethnographical materials, of ornamental and numismatic arts that had collected the Spanish monarches in the real library, in the real natural history room and in other institutes.Carried out photo for Pablo Alberto Salguero Quiles ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_Arqueol%C3 %B3gico_Nacional_de_Espa%C3 %B1a |http|

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