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The Palacio de Santa Cruz or Palace of the Holy Cross is a baroque building in central Madrid, Spain. It now houses the Spanish Foreign Ministry. It was used as a jail until the reign of Philip IV of Spain, when it was converted into a palace. Construction was commissioned in 1629 by Philip IV to house both courts and jail facilities.
"La Puerta de Alcalá y la Plaza de la Independencia de Madrid". Boletín de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (38). Madrid: Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando: 67– 75. ISSN 0567-560X – via Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. Goitia Cruz, Aitor (2006). "Diseños de Sabatini para las puertas de Madrid" (PDF).
Photograph of the facade of the church, J. Laurent (c. 1870.); National Library of Spain. Cloister of the Convento de Santo Tomás (c. 1875). The Dominican friars from the convento de Nuestra Señora de Atocha founded in 1563 a school of theology with money obtained from the sale of a house that had been donated to them, both far from the urban core of the time.
It was founded on 7 March 1885 by Pope Leo XIII as the Diocese of Madrid y Alcalá de Henares / Matriten(sis) et Compluten(sis) (Latin adjective), on canonical territory split off from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Toledo. [1] It was made the Archdiocese of Madrid on 25 March 1964 by Pope Paul VI.
The Statue of the Bear and the Strawberry Tree (Spanish: El Oso y el Madroño) is a sculpture from the second half of the 20th century, situated in the Spanish capital, Madrid. It represents the coat of arms of Madrid and is found on the east side of the Puerta del Sol , between Calle de Alcalá and Carrera de San Jerónimo, in the historical ...
Museo del Prado, Madrid Christ Carrying the Cross is a 1597–1600 painting by El Greco , belonging to the end of his life in Toledo . It is now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
The Muslim Walls of Madrid (also known as the Arab Walls of Madrid), of which some vestiges remain, are located in the Spanish capital city of Madrid. They are probably the oldest construction extant in the city. They were built in the 9th century, during the Muslim domination of the Iberian Peninsula, on a promontory next to Manzanares river.
Madrid: Ministerio de Defensa, Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, Acción Cultural Española. pp. 471– 495. López Torrijos (2004). "Arte e historia común en el palacio del Viso" (PDF). España y Génova. Obras, artistas y coleccionistas. Madrid: Fernando Villaverde Ediciones-Fundación Carolina. pp. 129– 138.