The Palace of Longoria (

Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Can ...

: ''Palacio de Longoria'') is an Art Nouveau palace that the politician and financier

Francisco Javier González Longoria Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name '' Franciscus''. Nicknames In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed " Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Comunitatis'' (father o ...

ordered to be built in the district of Chueca, at the corner of Fernando VI and Pelayo streets, in the city of

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the Largest cities of the Europ ...

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. 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 ...

(

: 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 * Plaza de Es ...

, 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 incl ...

'' in 1996 and is currently the headquarters of the

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(SGAE).

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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 {{Spain-palace-stub