The Palace of Longoria (
Spanish
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: ''Palacio de Longoria'') is an Art Nouveau palace that the politician and financier
Francisco Javier González Longoria
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Nicknames
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ordered to be built in the district of Chueca, at the corner of Fernando VI and Pelayo streets, in the city of
Madrid
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,
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, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
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, i ...
. Together with the
House of Gallardo
The House of Gallardo (Spanish: ''Casa Gallardo'') is a building located in Madrid, Spain.
Projected by Federico Arias Rey, it is one of the relatively few ''modernista'' buildings preserved in Madrid. It was declared ''Bien de Interés Cultural' ...
(
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: Casa Gallardo) in the
Plaza de España Plaza de España (Square of Spain) may refer to:
In Spain
* Plaça d'Espanya, Barcelona in Barcelona
* Plaça d'Espanya (Palma) in Palma, Mallorca
* Plaza de España, Madrid in Madrid
* Plaza de España (Pontevedra) in Pontevedra
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, it is Madrid's most notable example of modernist architecture.
Longoria contracted the Catalán architect
José Grases Riera
José Grases Riera (25 April 1850 – 12 February 1919) was a Spanish architect from Barcelona.
Born in Barcelona, Grases graduated from the School of Architecture in Barcelona in 1878 and moved to Madrid shortly after. Through to the turn of ...
to design and build it in 1902. It was declared ''
Bien de Interés Cultural
A Bien de Interés Cultural is a category of the heritage register in Spain. The term is also used in Venezuela and other Spanish-speaking countries.
The term literally means a "good of cultural interest" ("goods" in the economic sense) and inclu ...
'' in 1996 and is currently the headquarters of the
Sociedad General de Autores y Editores
The Spanish Society of Authors and Publishers (''Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, SGAE'') is the main collecting society for songwriters, composers and music publishers in Spain. It is similar to AGADU, ASCAP
The American Society of Com ...
(SGAE).
![Escalera Longoria 1](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Escalera_Longoria_1.jpg)
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Palaces in Madrid
Bien de Interés Cultural landmarks in Madrid
Art Nouveau architecture in Spain
Art Nouveau houses
Buildings and structures completed in 1904
Buildings and structures in Justicia neighborhood, Madrid
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