It couldn't be better located, approximately halfway along the stately Calle de Alfonso XII and also a short distance from that magnet for selfies that continues to be - look at it, look at it, look at it - the double project that the Italian architect, Sabatini, presented to King Carlos III, without knowing for sure which of the two projects he had chosen and which, therefore, remained for posterity: the Puerta de Alcalá.
Its fantasy design, worthy, without a doubt, of those others, which, for generations, have been decorating the cultural archetypes of a thousand and one stories, is like a wishing well that powerfully attracts attention and inevitably invites us to speculate with its dreamy mysteries.
Mysteries and secrets, which, in addition, always go hand in hand with those architectures of the past, which, in a subliminal way, form part of the essence of stories and traditions, for the most part, unknown, of the urban history of a Madrid, whose resilient beauty always invites speculation.
Above all, knowing, also, that in the recesses of its rooms, great figures from the world of Art and Literature, such as the writer from León, Concha Espina, found sufficient inspiration to create works that, today and deservedly, are considered authentic classics.
In short: part of that historic and picturesque Madrid, whose location has the added category of being part of that immeasurable Passage of Light, recognised by UNESCO.
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