Do not want to miss the pure essence of the city of Madrid, an overview and study of the most emblematic buildings of the Spanish capital!
Colegiata de San Isidro
Also called San Isidro Collegiate Royal. It is a Catholic church located in the historic center of Madrid, Toledo street number 37. Until 1993 it was the provisional cathedral city, which will then be the Almudena. It was built in the seventeenth century as a church of the ancient Imperial College of the Society of Jesus, attached to the building. It contains the remains moral pattern Madrid, San Isidro, and his wife, Santa Maria de la Cabeza.
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Real Basílica de San Francisco el Grande
Monastery complex which replaced the medieval Franciscan monastery, built by Francisco de las Cabezas in the eighteenth century, which was relieved by Antonio Polo and concludes Francisco Sabatini. Noted for its magnificent dome beautifully decorated and its art gallery which displays collections of paintings from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries with works by Zurbarán, Luca Giordano, Francisco Pacheco and Alonso Cano.
San Jerónimo El Real
Better known as St. Jerome. It is located behind the Prado Museum and is one of the most historic churches in the capital. Originally governed by the Order of St. Jerome. Beside him was the Royal Quarters, and extended the Buen Retiro Palace under Philip IV. Currently exist convent church became a parish of St. Jerome, and a faculty of Baroque style, closely linked to the life of the Court and the Spanish monarchy. The faculty was drawn by Fray Lorenzo de San Nicolás, the canons of architecture Escorial. In the nineteenth and twentieth century’s reached a state of disrepair and ruin, so he joined the Prado Museum as part of the extension designed by architect Rafael Moneo, for which was dismantled piece by piece and rebuilt in the same place.
Salesas Reales Church
Representation of the high class society and social prestige patent Interior wealth and artistic works within custody. Today is the parish of Santa Barbara. It is an assembly of church and convent, founded by Barbara de Braganza at first as a palace retreat in case of widowhood and the idea of being a noble female college. It is a baroque courtly cult and was built by Francis Carlier in collaboration with Francisco Moradillo. The dome, of great artistic value, was the work of the brothers González Velázquez giving a perfect balance between architecture and decoration.
Calatravas Church
Catholic church, and the only remaining part of the former Convent of the Conception Real, the nuns Commanders of the Order of Calatrava.
It is located at the beginning of Alcala Street and near Puerta del Sol This privileged location, coupled with the sponsorship of royalty and important personalities, the convent became one of the largest in the capital. This is why today’s church retains a rich artistic heritage.
