Semi-basement ; Palace kitchens and rooms for service, This is where the visit begins, with the projection of an audiovisual on the history of the palace. Ground floor: stables, garden and doll house and palace entrance lobby: With soils of exotic woods. It was the place where the carriages entered (to avoid the smell they had incense burners). Palace Garden: The palace has a garden. In this there is a fountain with stairs to their sides that communicate with the music hall. Dollhouse: The dollhouse is a whim located in the garden. It was used as a warehouse to save the labor tools. First floor: the place where the Marquises made their daily lives, Main access ladder to the noble plant: made in Carrara marble. It is decorated with canvases and panels dedicated to arts, science, agriculture and industry. Marquise dressingroom: the structure of palace soils, in mosaic, is symmetrical to the roofs. On the roof there is a fresco of the Venus dressing table. The Marqueses bedroom: On the roof there is a painting called Allegory of the Night. You can perceive the space where the canopy of the bed should go. Boudoir (room located between the dining room and the bedroom): In this place a cabinet was located for reading. On the roof you can see a fresco with an allegory to poetry. Daily Dining room: It was the place where the family ate. The Marquises of Linares made the food of the prestigious Lhardy restaurant. Music Hall: Place where they listened to music. It has a door that opens to the garden and a fresco on the roof with the allegory of music. Pool (billiards) room: It is a large room where men came to play pool and smoking (it worked with gas lamps). Library and sound library: place for reading and study. chaired by portraits of Cervantes, Garcilaso, Lope de Vega and other famous writers. Marquis private office: place where the Marquis attended his business. Coated with walnut wood and windows that open to the Plaza de Cibeles. Second floor: the place where they received visits, made banquets and parties, When the Palacio de Linares was in full swing, the guests arrived in carriages that entered the entrance lobby to the palace, and then climb to the noble plant (second floor), through the marble staircase of the first floor. Gala dining room:it was the place where he ate with the guests. On the roof is the fresco “The feast of the gods” and a target hunter. Eastern Hall: Tea room (desktop space). The decoration was brought from China (something that was then a luxury). Main Hall: place where the family was with their guests. On the ceiling there is a fresco of “psyche driven to Olympus.” First prelude to the dance hall: space designed to rest. On the roof, a wooden bead with influence of the Neomudéjar style stands out. Ballroom: Grand Room, where he danced. There are four lunetos at the top (behind one of them played the orchestra). Second prelude to the dance hall: to rest after the dance. On the roof is the fresco “Cefiro fantasy”, with a woman who follows us. Marquis Office: this was the desk where the Marquis dealt with professional issues. There are two portraits of the Marquises of Linares. , Byzantine influence chapel: The apostles are represented (except Judas). From the ceiling the babies lowered to baptize themselves (like angels).
A legend tells that José de Murga y Reolid, Marqués de Linares, told his father Mateo de Murga that he had fallen in love with a young woman named Raimunda de Osorio and Ortega ,When the Marquis’s father heard her name, he opposed the relationship between them, and to cut it he sent him to study London. Although the Marquis served, when he returned to Spain, he ignored his father and continued with Raimunda. It was the death of Mateo, father of the Marquis, when José learned of the reason why his father opposed his relationship with Raimund They were brothers! To continue with their relationship, the Marquises of Linares got a bull “Casti Convivere”, of Pope Leo XIII, which allowed them to live together but in chastity. From what it seems, the latter was not so, since they said they had a daughter named Raimundita. They say that the Marquises, to hide the incest, drowned their daughter and stoned her so that they did not find the body. According to the leyend , since then, the spirits of the Marquises and that of their Raimundita daughter is proving after many tests,
A bit of history tell us that the Palacio de Linares aka Palacio de Murga, then Casa de America was built on the land where there were previously a silver mill and the royal well. It was destined to be the residence of the first Marquises of Linares, José de Murga y Reolid and Raimunda de Osorio and Ortega, who bought the land from the Madrid City Council in the year 1872 to build in them the palace in which they would live. The Palacio de Linares is a palace, in a neo -baroque style, built in Madrid between the 1877 and 1900 for the Marquises of Linares today is the headquarters of the Casa de America and without ending the interior decoration, which ended in 1900, the Marquises inhabited the palace since 1884. The palace consists of four floors with basement, mezzanine, noble plant and third floor, A sub-basement, which extends throughout the stables and the garden with some blind galleries. After the death of the marquises, went to the goddaughter, then the Palacio of Linares went through other hands. But it was not until 1992, the year it was reopened as Casa de América after a restoration that lasted two years, when it would recover its essence of palace. At present, the Casa de America (consortium composed of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Community of Madrid and the Madrid City Council) is a center for cultural exchange between Spain and America (especially Latin America).
The official Casa de America: http://www.casamerica.es/
The Madrid tourist office on Casa de America: https://www.esmadrid.com/en/tourist-information/casa-america
There you go folks, another jewel in a very nice area of Madrid, not far from my old home when living there. Its a cultural center in a cultural city. Again, hope you enjoy this post on the Casa de America of Madrid, part I !! as I.
And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!! 
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