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Visit Casa Árabe’s headquarters in Madrid
From October 01, 2024 until October 18, 2024The tours will be given on the dates of October 17 and 18 at 11:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m., with a duration of approximately one hour each. No more than 25 people per group.
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Casa Árabe headquarters (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
The tours will be given on the dates of October 17 and 18 at 11:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m., with a duration of approximately one hour each. No more than 25 people per group.
Prior registration required.
In order to sign up, you must sign up as of October 2 by going to www.mom.reservaspatrimonio.es
On October 17 and 18, we will be opening the doors of our Escuelas Aguirre building so that locals and visitors alike can discover one of the most representative examples of neo-Mudéjar architecture in the Spanish capital. It will be the location for holding the initiative known as Madrid Otra Mirada (MOM). Sign up here as of October 2.
The Casa Árabe headquarters in Madrid occupies the Escuelas Aguirre building, which dates back to 1881. It was officially opened in 1886. The building is one of the most representative works by architect Emilio Rodríguez Ayuso in Madrid’s neo-Mudéjar style.
Designed in a two-story free-standing rectangular shape, the building’s surface area on the main floor is reduced to form a U shape, with a courtyard left open onto the rear façade. Above the stairwell is a 37-meter tower, with three brick bodies and a glazed metal attic, a unique feature in Madrid’s skyline.
The building has been enlarged and refurbished on several occasions by professionals like Luis Bellido González, Antonio Flórez Urdapilleta, Bernardo Giner de los Ríos and Guillermo Costa Pérez-Herrero, and its functions have ranged from being a school to housing municipal offices. Since 2008, it has been home to the Madrid headquarters of Casa Árabe.
The tours of Casa Árabe’s headquarters will be held as part of the twelfth edition of Madrid Otra Mirada (MOM), an initiative put on by the Madrid City Council’s Department of Culture, Tourism and Sports, and will be held in the city from October 17 to 20. During this event, locals and visitors will get the chance to see more than 192 sites of heritage interest first-hand, with all of them holding an exceptional open-house. This year the event is being held to remember an important date: the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Galician architect Antonio Palacios Ramilo, who left his mark on such emblematic buildings in Madrid as the Palacio de Comunicaciones, the Círculo de Bellas Artes, the Casa Comercial Palazuelo, the Banco Español del Río de la Plata (now the Instituto Cervantes) and the Nave de Motores de Pacífico, among many others.
Designed in a two-story free-standing rectangular shape, the building’s surface area on the main floor is reduced to form a U shape, with a courtyard left open onto the rear façade. Above the stairwell is a 37-meter tower, with three brick bodies and a glazed metal attic, a unique feature in Madrid’s skyline.
The building has been enlarged and refurbished on several occasions by professionals like Luis Bellido González, Antonio Flórez Urdapilleta, Bernardo Giner de los Ríos and Guillermo Costa Pérez-Herrero, and its functions have ranged from being a school to housing municipal offices. Since 2008, it has been home to the Madrid headquarters of Casa Árabe.
The tours of Casa Árabe’s headquarters will be held as part of the twelfth edition of Madrid Otra Mirada (MOM), an initiative put on by the Madrid City Council’s Department of Culture, Tourism and Sports, and will be held in the city from October 17 to 20. During this event, locals and visitors will get the chance to see more than 192 sites of heritage interest first-hand, with all of them holding an exceptional open-house. This year the event is being held to remember an important date: the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Galician architect Antonio Palacios Ramilo, who left his mark on such emblematic buildings in Madrid as the Palacio de Comunicaciones, the Círculo de Bellas Artes, the Casa Comercial Palazuelo, the Banco Español del Río de la Plata (now the Instituto Cervantes) and the Nave de Motores de Pacífico, among many others.
