Palacio del Marqués de Casa Riera

Engraving of the palace published in the volume X of Diccionario geográfico-estadístico-histórico de España y sus posesiones de ultramar by Pascual Madoz, in 1850.
(Second) Palacio del Marqués de Casa Riera (c. 1915).

The Palacio del Marqués de Casa Riera was a building located in the Spanish city of Madrid, in the old number 64 of the Calle de Alcalá.[1][2] was in the widest part of the street and its plant formed a parallelogram rectangle, consisting each of its four facades of three stories that were in all in the same horizontal plane, serving as entrance to the building a spacious garden, which occupied the site of the old Convento de las Baronesas[1][2] [3] It separated the garden from the Calle de Alcalá a cover with three income ornate of pillars.

The building dates from the early 19th century.[2] It was built as a dowry for the Duchess of Abrantes, for which circumstance was designated with the name of "the house of the pins".[2] [2][lower-alpha 1] In the new building lived the Marquis of Ariza, the Russian ambassador, Prince Tatischef, and the famous provisionist of the French army and great financial Gabriel-Julien Ouvrard in 1823 and 1824, at which time were held in its halls magnificent soirees and banquets, until it acquired the Marquis of Riera, who invested large sums in its decoration.[2] The extension of the house and gardens was considerable, besides providing at facing, on the calle del Turco,[lower-alpha 2] of another large housing for garages and offices, with which it communicated by an underground tunnel.[2]

In 1893 the first palace was demolished, and the self nephew of the Marquis of Riera, Alejandro Riera Mora, raised another building. The new building was designed by architect Rodríguez Avia, in stone, brick and slate in the attic area. This building, like the previous one, had a garden, on whose site in 1917 was built the Círculo de Bellas Artes, designed by Antonio Palacios, and was longer the Calle Marqués de Casa Riera, which today separates the two existing buildings.[4] and the rest, including that new building, was demolished in the late 1920s.[5] The current building located at number 44 of Calle de Alcalá was built in the 1930s.

Notes

  1. ↑ previously also existed on the site, adjacent to the convento de las Baronesas, [3] the house that the Marquis de Auñón did styling for his natural son Rodrigo de Herrera, famous dramatic poet, author of comedies From the heaven comes the good king and The faith has no need of weapons.[2] Then it was the Count of Miranda and of the memories founded by the Marquis of Mancera[2]
  2. ↑ Current Calle del Marqués de Cubas.

References

  1. 1 2 Madoz 1850, p. 772.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Mesonero Romanos 1853, p. 348.
  3. 1 2 Terán 2004, pp. 267-268.
  4. ↑ Arte en Madrid
  5. ↑ "Palacete y Jardines Marqués Casa Riera" madrid con encanto

Coordinates: 40°25′07″N 3°41′46″W / 40.4185°N 3.6960°W / 40.4185; -3.6960

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