Fantastic duplex penthouse in Calle de Alcala

Salamanca : Lage und Umgebung dieser Immobilie

The Salamanca district is one of the most relevant areas of Madrid, both for its peculiar distribution and for the neighbors who have traditionally inhabited their emblematic streets. Its construction dates from the second half of the nineteenth century. XIX and corresponds to the urban expansion carried out during the reign of Elizabeth II. The precursor to whom it owes its name was José de Salamanca y Mayol from Malaga, Marquis of Salamanca, who conceived a new location with a careful building that would house the aristocratic and bourgeois classes of Madrid. style nineteenth-century, is characterized by its special distribution regular in the form of a checkerboard with perpendicular streets. Their buildings are of special interest thanks to their quality architecture and the beauty of its facades. Salamanca was traditionally a residential area, especially inhabited by political and economic elites from the country. In the last fifty years this character residence coexists with other activities such as the business, the diplomatic and, especially the commercial which is one of the most important luxury fashion areas in the capital. The Parque del Buen Retiro is the authentic protagonist of this neighborhood of Madrid that has its flanks in the streets of Alcalá and O'Donnell in the extreme north, the street Doctor Esquerdo in the east, the avenue of the Mediterranean and the Paseo de Reina Cristina in the south and Calle Alfonso XII in the western end. The origins of the park date from the time of the Catholic Monarchs, at the end of the 15th century and early sixteenth. However, the construction of the neighborhood is much later.