Protected Heritage 2021
Learn about the Assets of Cultural Interest and the Assets of Heritage Interest declared in the Community of Madrid in 2021
The Community of Madrid, through the Governing Council, has declared in 2021 eighteen Assets of Cultural Interest and an Asset of Patrimonial Interest that bring together a series of unique values from the historical, artistic, landscape or documentary point of view, and that from now on are under the protection categories contemplated by the Historical Heritage Law of the Community of Madrid. Among the protected assets are real estate, such as the El Gasco Dam or the Piedra Escrito site, movable assets such as the Ecce Homo attributable to Caravaggio or assets whose immaterial value acquires primary relevance, as in the case of the San Isidro patron saint festivities .
Assets of Patrimonial Interest
St. Matthias Parish Church
Hortaleza District. Madrid. 1878
Antonio María Repullés y Vargas, an architect of outstanding relevance in the period, applied a series of structural and decorative elements of Mudejar roots to this building, unifying the use of a simple and cheap material such as exposed brick, with technique and creativity. The result of this was the starting point for one of the most characteristic typologies of Madrid architecture from the last third of the XNUMXth century, justifying its assessment as an Asset of Patrimonial Interest.
Parish Church of San Pedro Apóstol
Torremocha de Jarama. XNUMXth century
It is part of the small group of temples in the region that preserve medieval remains of Romanesque typology. In addition, inside the church you can see a high-quality pictorial decoration dating from the mid-XNUMXth century and belonging to international Gothic, the only example preserved in the Community of Madrid and one of the few remains in Castile.
Cultural Interest Assets
Shrine of Our Lady of Valverde
Fuencarral District. Century XVIII
Constituted as a place of devotion and pilgrimage since the XNUMXth century, a representative example of the Madrid Baroque and the scene of historical events in the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries; the architectural complex of the sanctuary of Nuestra Señora de Valverde is presented as a valuable historical, religious, artistic and cultural testimony, which has been declared an Asset of Cultural Interest in the Monument category.
Popular Geographic Dictionary of Spain
Camilo Jose Cela. 1999-2002
Original manuscript resulting from the research that the author carried out on the idiosyncrasies of Spain and its peoples. It constitutes one of the few works that exist from his activity as a lexicographer, laying the foundations for topical dictatology, a discipline named after the writer himself. Composed of 514 pages that include a study on geography, folklore and diverse linguistic manifestations of a popular type; a research work that the Academic of the language and Nobel Prize for Literature left unfinished in 2002 and that has been declared an Asset of Cultural Interest.
Church of the Assumption of Our Lady
Robledo de Chavela. Century XVI
His pictorial series of almost eighty dragons dated around 1500, the Spanish-Flemish altarpiece influenced by Toledo from the beginning of the XNUMXth century and the monumental and sober character of the building, raised in granite stone and with buttresses topped with sentry boxes, constitute some of the the most outstanding notes of this temple, an expression of Castilian late-Gothic architecture, which has been declared a Site of Cultural Interest in the Monument category.
The Color of Morning and other writings
Camilo Jose Cela. 1993-2002
Original manuscript of the journalistic articles that the Nobel Prize for Literature published in the ABC newspaper. The work is collected in 23 notebooks with Cela's handwriting, of about 70 pages. The writer always remained close to journalistic activity, his collaborations with the press being his first literary commitments and a constant throughout his life, developing in parallel to his narrative. These texts, declared as Assets of Cultural Interest, bring together values of documentary and historical interest that contribute to broadening the knowledge of the creativity and work of the writer in the last years of his life.
Parish Church of Our Lady
Pezuela of the Towers. XII century
The church is the result of the combination of Mudejar architecture with influences from Toledo and Castilian foci, and the application of purely Romanesque and Renaissance elements. The arcaded gallery on its south façade with Renaissance columns from the first third of the XNUMXth century or the Talavera tiles that cover part of the interior walls are some of the elements that justify its declaration as an Asset of Cultural Interest in the Monument category.
The Cardinal Virtues
Mariano Salvador Maella. Around 1785
Sketch that is part of the decorative program of mural paintings of the new Royal Palace of Madrid, built in the XNUMXth century. It is an oil painting on canvas in a vertical format in which the four virtues are represented: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude and Temperance, in their usual form, as figures of women accompanied or carrying the elements with which they are identified. The work helps to illustrate the creative process of its author, a court painter who, due to his excellence in mural painting, would become the first painter to the king. In response to this historical-artistic value and exceptionality, it has been declared an Asset of Cultural Interest.
Piedra Escrito Deposit
ashen. XNUMXnd century.
Outstanding material testimony of Roman culture in the southwest of the Community of Madrid, not only for its status as a symbolic and votive monument, but also for its permanence in its original location, acting as a border signaling landmark. Witness to the diachronic process of occupation of this territory throughout history, its historical and landscape value justifies its declaration as an Asset of Cultural Interest in the category of Area of Archaeological Interest.
The Moor's Sigh
Francis Pradilla. 1879-1892.
Oil on canvas that captures the moment in which Boabdil says goodbye to Granada between
sobs, according to legend. The reign of the Catholic Monarchs and, in particular, the surrender of Granada, was one of the historical themes preferred by Spanish history painters throughout the XNUMXth century. For its artistic and technical quality and for being made in one of the most brilliant periods of Pradilla's production, one of the most relevant representatives of XNUMXth century Spanish painting; the work has been declared a Site of Cultural Interest.
Parish Church of Santo Domingo de Silos
Pradena del Rincon. XII century
With particularly unique elements such as the bell-casting oven, its porticoed gallery, a rock necropolis or the Gothic mural painting from the XNUMXth century, the church is one of the most interesting examples of medieval religious architecture in the Community of Madrid, combining in the same building the rural Romanesque and the Mudejar; values that justify its declaration as an Asset of Cultural Interest in the Monument category.
Gasco Dam and Guadarrama Canal
Galapagar, Torrelodones, Las Rozas. Madrid. Century XVIII
This large hydraulic infrastructure in a granite gorge on the course of the Guadarrama River is part of a historic engineering project designed in 1785 by the French military engineer Carlos Lemaur. Despite the unsuccessful goal of connecting the city of Madrid and the Atlantic Ocean by means of a navigable canal, the result of the El Gasco dam is a remarkable example of anthropic action on nature that has been declared an Asset of Cultural Interest in the category of Cultural landscape.
View of Madrid with the Royal Palace and the Patio de Armas under construction
Attributed to Antonio Joli. Century XVIII
Oil on canvas that represents the unrepeatable panorama of baroque Madrid in the XNUMXth century, seen from the Manzanares, where the painter shows the new monumental image associated with the Bourbon dynasty. Representative of the technical and artistic quality of the Italian painter Antonio Joli, it brings together
the values of cultural historical interest relevant for its declaration as an Asset of Cultural Interest.
Royal Environment Oratorio del Caballero de Gracia
Madrid. 1786.
One of the most outstanding neoclassical buildings in Madrid, erected during the reign of Carlos III, the work of the architect Juan de Villanueva. It was the first religious commission of the renowned architect, who manages to endow the building with grandeur and monumentality, despite the narrowness of the space, achieving a basilica plan with three naves separated by Corinthian columns. The 2021 declaration protects the surroundings of this property declared a Historic-Artistic Monument in 1956.
San Jeronimo
Attributed to Luis de Morales. 1555-1565
Oil on panel of great artistic and technical quality, which constitutes a clear testimony of the most brilliant period of activity of Luis de Morales, the Divine, one of the most important painters of the Spanish Renaissance. The piece responds to a very characteristic typology of his production, it is documented and linked to the collection of the infante don Luis de Borbón; these being some of the values of historical-artistic interest relevant to its declaration as an Asset of Cultural Interest.
Surroundings Church of the Benedictine Monastery of San Placido
Madrid. XVII century
Its modest brick walls, framed with stone finials, contrast with the rich interior ornamentation in which artists of the stature of Gregorio Fernández, Claudio Coello, Francisco Pérez Sierra, Juan Martín Cabezalero and Francisco Rizi worked, making it one of the most most outstanding artistic figures of Madrid in the 2021th century. The 1943 declaration protects the surroundings of this property, which was declared a Historic-Artistic Monument in XNUMX.
Bauer Palace surroundings
Madrid. XIX century
The Bauer Palace owes its name to Ignacio Bauer, a banker of Hungarian origin who at the end of the 1972th century acquired the building and turned it into a meeting point for social and cultural life in Madrid. As an interesting set reflecting the art and tastes of its time, both for its architecture and for the movable goods it integrates; It was declared a Historic-Artistic Monument in 2021, and protection was extended to its urban environment in XNUMX.
San Isidro Patron Saint Festivities
Madrid XNUMXth century-present
The generational transmission of the traditions and symbolic elements of the San Isidro festivities, which have survived since the saint's canonization in 1622, build a memory of relevant identity belonging to the city of Madrid and its inhabitants. For this reason, the festivities have been declared an Asset of Cultural Interest in the category of Cultural Event in 2021.
Ecce Homo
Attributable to Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. XVII century
Oil on canvas, a sample of excellence and pictorial mastery of the first Italian naturalism, which exerted a great influence on the Madrid pictorial school of the XNUMXth century. The psychological portrait of the characters, the realism of the faces, the light force that is concentrated on the body of Jesus Christ, the game of close-ups of the three characters and the communication that is established with the viewer are some of the aspects that make of the picture a work of great artistic interest. The Caravaggesque features of the work in its iconography and executive language and its extremely high quality prove its special relevance within the artistic heritage of the Community of Madrid and its declaration as an Asset of Cultural Interest.
Parish Church of Our Lady of the Snows
Manzanares El Real. XV century
With some elements of its first construction stage attributed to the Spanish-Flemish master Juan Guas and a purist and sober artistic language, related to the focus of Toledo, it stands as an outstanding heritage asset whose artistic and cultural values allow us to understand the historical evolution of the municipality of Manzanares El Real and justify its declaration as an Asset of Cultural Interest in the Monument category.