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The building of the House of Representatives is located in the Carrera de San Jerónimo. Queen Elizabeth II ordered its construction in 1843, on the site of the Convent of the Holy Spirit, where he had already enabled some of the convent to meet the courts since 1834.

The order of construction was awarded after a public tender in June 1842, the Valencian architect

Narciso Pascual y Colomer
(1801-1870) upon its completion in 1850.

solar A steep and not very roomy, Pascual and Colomer poses a quadrangular building of two floors plus attic,

using for the main facade style portico with six Corinthian columns, while to organize the plant uses the neoclassical, linking the spaces in the universities.

The relief on the pediment symbolizing the legislative function by sculptor Ponciano Ponzano and Zaragoza

Gascón (1813-1877). Represents Spain embracing Constitution and surrounded by Fortitude, Justice, Science, Harmony, Fine Arts, Commerce, Agriculture, Rivers and Canals navigation, Abundance and Peace.

Ponciano also is the work of implementing the lions flanking the steps, which were melted in the Maestranza in Seville in 1866, with the bronze from the cannons won in the war in Africa of 1859-1860.

the end of this staircase is a large entrance gate in bronze, by José María Sánchez Pescador .

The Chamber is semicircular and stilted, with a diameter of thirty meters. This chamber is dominated by a tapestry with the coat of arms of Spain under canopy and each side two Carrara marble sculptures representing Isabella and Ferdinand,

works Panucci

and
José Andrés Rodríguez

, respectively.

To the right and left of each there are two tables: one on the medieval Cortes, when the Queen Regent María de Molina introduces her son Infante Don Fernando, painted by Antonio Gisbert and one of the Cortes of Cadiz, at the conclusion of the session in which Deputies Sworn In in 1810, designed by José María Casado del Alisal.

The paintings of the dome are the work of painter

Madrid Carlos Luis de Rivera and Fieve

(1815-1891) and consists of five major historical paintings, four of which deal on the history of English law and one that is dedicated to famous English. Surrounding these paintings, various allegories of the virtues, while around the stands are represented provincial shields.

Congress of Deputies is the lower house of the Parliament

, is essentially legislative function but also plays a political role in the appointment of prime minister. The Basic Law of the General Election of 1985 provides for a minimum of three hundred members and a maximum of four, who are elected for a term of four years.

Sources: "Madrid Villa y Corte" Peter Montoliú Camps, "Urbanity," "Postcards Old Madrid" Ediciones La Librería, "The English and American Illustration," "Ayuntamiento de Madrid", "Regional Historical Archive," "Old Madrid", "English Society of Library", "Municipal Museum."

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Nestled at the confluence of the streets of Fernando VI y Pelayo, in the neighborhood of Justice, is the Palacio de Longoria, popularly known as Home of Authors, a reference point for cultural activities in Madrid.

Francisco Javier González Longoria, political and financial support from the early twentieth century, commissioned in 1902 by architect Joseph Grases

Riera (1850-1919) the project of a residential palace labor offices. The classmate of Gaudí, Grases Riera, author of works such as the building of the Equitable Alcalá Street, the monument dedicated to King Alfonso XII Retiro by the pool, dedicated to Canovas Square in the English Navy and several houses and hotels have not always resisted Over time, he devised a banker known for building a modern expression.

On a square solar towers up two square base attached to another circular tower by two rectangular bodies. Designed facades with abundant plant motifs and nerves to the Catalan and the envelope with grates of Parisian modernism. The year was closed, 1905, the chronicler

Sunday

Gascón said
"Da real shame to see a big waste of talent, art and money, so bad employee."

The palace belonged to the financier until 1912, when it was sold for 500,000 pesetas to Florestan Aguilar, a dentist from the Royal House. In 1946, after his death, his heirs sold it to civil Construcciones, SA and in 1950 the mansion and the adjoining building was purchased by the General Society of Authors in 4,975,000 pesetas. Over time, the building underwent changes that were modified and degraded its original appearance both externally and internally.

those made by architects Francis García Navas in 1912, Carlos Arniches Moltó in 1950 and Santiago Fajardo Cabeza in 1992. In this final restoration and final time, he fell down almost the entire building except the front structure and to halt the decline of this century-old building weakened by the previous interventions are not always benevolent. The Palace required a healthy full of structure, facades, garden, interior space, etc., to enhance the values \u200b\u200bof the nearly 5,000 square meters Longoria Palace.

Among others, we should underscore the dramatic marble staircase with brass railing and artistic decoration and covered by a central skylight of stained glass Maumejean House, the glazed galleries The courtyard and the hall of Manuel de Falla. Today, the SGAE headquarters building is architecturally one of the most emblematic buildings of Madrid.

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