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Two tiled frontages. The pharmacy advertised “inoffensive cigarettes”, while the painted hens next door are a clue that this bar was once an egg shop (huevería ).
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Stunning tiled façade and interior, dating from the early 20th century (see Taberna de Angel Sierra).
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The Fine Arts Club dates from the 1920s and is Antonio Palacios’ Art Deco masterpiece. The crowning feature is the statue on the roof, representing the goddess Minerva, patroness of the arts. Pay the one-day membership fee and you can take in the other highlights – the staircase, theatre, ballroom and the Salón de Fiestas, with its painted ceiling (see Círculo de Bellas Artes).
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Pop inside this shop and check out the traditional tiled interior (see Fábrica de Churros).
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Though much altered over the years, this 16th-century church is an important architectural monument. It has also been a place of refuge for Spanish kings and queens through the ages. The current king, Juan Carlos I, was crowned here in 1975 (see Iglesia de San Jerónimo el Real).
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Pretty old café converted into a Guinness pub.
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The tiled façade here features scenes from Goya’s paintings.
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Every inch of the interior was covered with painted murals by Enrique Guigo in the 1880s (see Los Gabrieles).
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One of Madrid’s signature buildings, Metrópolis was designed in 1905 by the French architects Jules and Raymond Février. The high point – literally – of this lovely Neo-Baroque confection is the bronze wreaths garlanding the cupola, which glint in the sunlight (see Metrópolis).
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More prosaically known as the General Post Office, this extraordinary building was the first major commission of Galician architect Antonio Palacios and his partner, Joaquín Otamendi. The style of this palace (1905–19) has influences ranging from Spanish Plateresque to Art Deco. The most striking feature of the interior is the stained-glass roof.
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