That's how it was... WELCOME to the palace! 2019

Welcome to the palace! It offered the possibility of visiting thirty of the best palatial buildings in the Community of Madrid, selected for largely preserving their original compositional characteristics, both architecturally and ornamentally.
The visits were guided by specialists in Heritage didactics, who explained the architectural and ornamental evolution of the buildings, as well as the various functions that these have had throughout their history.

The visits were made in the following palaces (click on the name for more information):

• Buenavista Palace. General Headquarters of the Army.
• Javier González-Longoria Palace. General Society of Authors and Publishers.
• Mansion of the Marquis of Rafal. Residence of the Ambassador of Belgium.
• Laredo Palace. International Center of Historical Studies Cisneros and Cisneriano Museum.
• Parque Florido Palace. Lázaro Galdiano Museum.
• Palace of the Marquis of Villafranca. Real Engineering Academy.
• Palace of the Marquises of Fontalba. State Attorney General's Office.
• Palace of the Marquises of Santa Cruz. 
• Viana Palace. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation.
• Palace of the Marquis of Salamanca. BBVA Foundation.
• House-Palace of Manuel González- Longoria. Notarial College of Madrid.
• Palace of the Duke of Santoña. Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services of Madrid.
• Palace of the Duke of Fernán Núñez. Foundation of Spanish Railways.
• Zurbano Palace. Ministry of Development. 
• Mansion of the Marquis of Argüeso. Embassy of the Argentine Republic before the Kingdom of Spain.
• Godoy Palace. Center for Political and Constitutional Studies.
• Palace of the Marquis of Amboage. Embassy of Italy.
• Palace of the infant Don Luis de Borbón.
• Palace of the Duchess of Parcent. Ministry of Justice.
• Mansion of the Dukes of Híjar. Embassy of Portugal.
• Palace of Guillermo de Osma. Valencia Institute of Don Juan.
• House-Palace of Pedro de Luján. Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.
• Aldovea Castle-Palace.
• Palace of the Marquis de Villamejor. Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Function
• Palace of the Countess of Adanero. Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Function
• Palace of Joaquín Sorolla. Sorolla Museum.
• Basilio Avial's Mansion. ONCE General Council
• Liria Palace. Casa de Alba Foundation.
• Ignacio Bauer Palace. Singing School of Madrid.
• Palace of the Marquis of Gaviria.

Welcome to the palace! He also invited us to enjoy heritage in a different way, in which emotion is a fundamental part, through a series of concerts. In this edition, more than 3.000 places were offered throughout the year, the widest offer programmed to date.

The musical curatorship of the concert cycle was carried out by Esther Viñuela Lozano, project manager at the Reina Sofía School of Music

Welcome to the palace! 2019 It included a series of conferences that took place between the months of October and November, and that dealt with the characters who promoted and resided in these palaces. 

After the analysis of the architecture and daily life of the palaces that were analyzed in the two previous editions, in this cycle of conferences the characters who promoted and resided in the palaces of the capital were studied in depth. Cradle nobles, new aristocrats and ennobled bourgeois who lived, and in some cases, endowed these residences with the uniqueness and beauty that we can contemplate and enjoy today. Each session was held in the palaces of whose stories these characters were part.

The cycle was scientifically coordinated by José Luis Sancho Gaspar, researcher at National Heritage.

In these visits, aimed at children accompanied by adults, the salons of the palace of Duke Fernán Núñez were visited following the adventures of Belarmino. This young butler struggles between his ambition to prosper in the capital and the denial of his humble origins represented by the untimely visit of his aunt Rufina.