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Discover the headquarters of Casa Árabe as part of Open House Madrid
From September 25, 2025 until September 28, 2025Check our information for dates and times.
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Casa Árabe headquarters (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
Check our information for dates and times.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
In Spanish.
From September 25 to 28, the international architecture festival known as Open House Madrid will be giving guided tours of one hundred buildings and architecture studios, including Casa Árabe’s headquarters. Come and find out more about our building.
Once again, Casa Árabe is taking part in Open House Madrid, the eleventh edition of which is being held in 2025. Guided tours of Casa Árabe will be taking place on the following dates and times:
Thursday, September 25
10:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. (closing at 2:30 p.m.)
Friday, September 26,
10:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. (closing at 2:30 p.m.)
Saturday, September 27
10:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. (closing at 2:30 p.m.);
4:30 - 6:00 p.m. (closing at 6:30 p.m.)
Sunday, September 28
10:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. (closing at 2:30 p.m.);
4:30 - 6:00 p.m. (closing at 6:30 p.m.)
In order to take part, you must register in advance. Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
Casa Árabe is located in the Aguirre Schools building in Madrid, the construction of which began in 1881, with the official opening in 1886. The building is one of the most representative works by architect Emilio Rodríguez Ayuso in Madrid’s neo-Mudéjar style. Designed as a freestanding rectangular two-story structure, the building’s main floor is smaller than the upper floor, forming a U-shape. Above the stairwell stands a 37-meter tower with three brick sections and a glass-covered metal attic, a unique feature within Madrid’s urban landscape. It has been enlarged and renovated on several occasions by professionals such as Luis Bellido González, Antonio Flórez Urdapilleta, Bernardo Giner de los Ríos and Guillermo Costa Pérez-Herrero, and the roles played by the building have ranged from school to municipal offices. Since 2008, it has been home to the Madrid headquarters of Casa Árabe.
Open House is a city architecture festival that takes place one weekend per year in more than 50 cities around the world. It has been held in Madrid since 2015. Every year, architecture plays the main role on Madrid’s city scene during the last weekend of September, demonstrating that architectural culture is essential to us. Open House Madrid is a project run by Culture Care, a non-profit association that promotes and disseminates local architectural heritage and includes Madrid in the international community of Open House Worldwide.
Thursday, September 25
10:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. (closing at 2:30 p.m.)
Friday, September 26,
10:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. (closing at 2:30 p.m.)
Saturday, September 27
10:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. (closing at 2:30 p.m.);
4:30 - 6:00 p.m. (closing at 6:30 p.m.)
Sunday, September 28
10:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. (closing at 2:30 p.m.);
4:30 - 6:00 p.m. (closing at 6:30 p.m.)
In order to take part, you must register in advance. Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
Casa Árabe is located in the Aguirre Schools building in Madrid, the construction of which began in 1881, with the official opening in 1886. The building is one of the most representative works by architect Emilio Rodríguez Ayuso in Madrid’s neo-Mudéjar style. Designed as a freestanding rectangular two-story structure, the building’s main floor is smaller than the upper floor, forming a U-shape. Above the stairwell stands a 37-meter tower with three brick sections and a glass-covered metal attic, a unique feature within Madrid’s urban landscape. It has been enlarged and renovated on several occasions by professionals such as Luis Bellido González, Antonio Flórez Urdapilleta, Bernardo Giner de los Ríos and Guillermo Costa Pérez-Herrero, and the roles played by the building have ranged from school to municipal offices. Since 2008, it has been home to the Madrid headquarters of Casa Árabe.
Open House is a city architecture festival that takes place one weekend per year in more than 50 cities around the world. It has been held in Madrid since 2015. Every year, architecture plays the main role on Madrid’s city scene during the last weekend of September, demonstrating that architectural culture is essential to us. Open House Madrid is a project run by Culture Care, a non-profit association that promotes and disseminates local architectural heritage and includes Madrid in the international community of Open House Worldwide.
