Gran Vía, 27
Between 1919 and 1923, the commercial firm Matesanz House, built in the newly released second installment of the Gran Via, a building for its new headquarters, as was previously located on Main Street # 4, and thus be able to accommodate a sort of shopping center, American style, which once harbored inside, plus shops, larger units for offices and offices.
Matesanz House did not hesitate to entrust the project to the architect Antonio Palacios Ramilo Pontevedra , which resolved its design and construction for the civil works, influenced by the architectural school in Chicago.
The facade is provided with glazed balconies, reminiscent of their homeland in Galicia, separated by pilasters supporting daunting in its upper arches, angles correctly solving the building to use new materials of the era and combining them under a monumental concept without falling into eclecticism, and topping the whole with two decorative towers.
The interior layout is performed around a fairly large central courtyard, metal and glass structure, which allows the space to have a functional and very well used.
In the basement of this building, the establishment was located Stores Quirós, which was the predecessor of what became the signature Cortefiel and whose founder, Felipe García Quirós, migrant in Cuba, he founded his own shop on the street first Earl of Romanones later in the street price and latest Margall Pi Avenue, Gran Via
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Cuchilleros Arch is part of the work of the famous architect Juan de Villanueva , who after the unfortunate fire that reduced to ashes the square in 1790, except Bakery House, was charged with reconstruction planning a completely enclosed space and enabling a series of arches for access. 
The name of this arch, Cuchilleros , is because it gives access to the plaza from the street of the same name, and this in turn named because it was the street that formerly were located Guild workshops and espaderos knife, which had as one of its purposes providing their products to so many butchers in the Plaza Mayor. 
At first they were headquartered company of Jose Maria Ruiz Mateos, Rumasa. They have a suspended structure. The building consists of two large piers at its top by a platform from which hang two large towers by six meter perimeter beams singing with pendulums that tightens each floor with steel cables. for its construction were first concrete foundations on which were planted two pillars and the upper platform. Later
towers were built from top to bottom, from the upper deck floor by floor closer to the base of the building. 
Its glass walls are covered in maroon and has a green structure, popularly known as "plug", added later to cap construction. The building houses offices different companies and on the ground floor, shops and banks. Madrid to top © 2011 always in the wild. Was conditioned for a long walk at the foot of the Field of the Cloth, where Philip II promoted tournaments, and requested the architect Pedro de Ribera
build a chapel with gardens. All this part was lush and well ordered to build the shrine of the Virgen del Puerto to the north of the Puente de Segovia. 
The chapel is kept in perfect condition until the Civil War, when that was partially destroyed, losing thousands of works of art it housed. Shortly after the war, the architect Mendoza was charged with reconstruction and has recently been restored for being in very poor condition. It is preserved tomb of the Marquis de Vadillo.
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is the dean of the cider houses in Madrid and thus one of the most famous of the capital, opened its doors in 1888.
The history of this establishment can only be explained by the continuity of this tradition of the fourth generation of its founder, Domingo García González. 
Domingo "Mingo" was one of the first Asturian who worked on the construction of the North Station, also called the Principe Pio station. Since
it was a nice area as well as being Real Site of the banks of the Manzanares, as an extension of the Campo del Moro, agreed to acquire, within the infrastructure of the station, an old disused warehouse, railway materials.
In this building with thick walls, Mingo installed his "wound" or cider mill, in order to receive quick and direct natural products from their land and they can be elaborate, from Villaviciosa Asturias apple in its own facilities and by traditional techniques. Among other specialties, can be taste, Cabrales cheese, the sausages with cider and its famous roast chicken.