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Dragon’s Inn
Surviving since the XVII Century Cava Baja, Puerta Cerrada and Segovia Street constitute the map of ancient Madrid, a sometimes forgotten Madrid and a city that was abandoned right after La Transisión. It is a place reflected, for example, in baroque plays and classic novels. Valentina García Plata / ROOM
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he Dragon’s Inn, located in Cava Baja, has been surviving since its inauguration in 1868. For century and a half it was the hostel of travelers and business men coming and going from Villa and Corte looking for markets, businesses and jobs. That old construction, built by the Marquis of Cuba, occupied a whole block and had place for parking carriages pulled by horses. Its corridors, facade and yard are living witnesses
Nacho Álvarez of what was usually going on in the Inn. Today, they are elements present in indoors designed by Lanea, the company in charge of refurbishing the old guest house and turning it into a contemporary hotel and boutique. The new Dragon’s Inn is a lot more than a refurbished hotel. Visiting it is traveling to the most important times of the city through a new design that includes Madrid’s identity
Highlighted. Where: Cava Baja 14 · 28005 Madrid, Spain / www.posadadeldragon.com Refurbishing and indoors: Lanea / www.lanea.es