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Our five-star Madrid hotels are accommodations that meet the highest standards of the industry, and there are distinctive extras that set them apart from the rest of the pack.  Your stay here will feel like a splendid journey into the lap of luxury, with sumptuous feasts prepared by our world-class chefs, who specialize in innovation and tradition.  This is a heady combination in Madrid, where classical merges with the contemporary, sometimes almost seamlessly.  You’ll be dazzled by the magnificent design and style at our hotels, carefully arranged my some of the hottest designers in Europe, working to make your time here memorable and refreshing.  One decadent night’s sleep, and you’ll be ready to make new adventures in the beautiful city of Madrid.

Madrid is one of Europe’s more unique treasures.  With all the architecture, fashion, and style of a buzzing urban center, the influences of antiquity are also very strong here, and serve as a constant presence.  There is a sense of otherworldliness about Madrid, as if time were not exactly standing still, but certainly bending in unusual directions.  Perhaps this is nothing new; perhaps it’s not a product of the modern age.  Looking at the work of Goya, one gets the sense that he experienced this same strange effect of time on the human imagination.  For him, time was more impenetrable, working as he did at a time when there was so much upheaval, and his paintings are a visual history of Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Francisco José de Goya y Lucentes was born in 1746 in Fuendetodos, in the kingdom of Aragón. From a very early age he showed remarkable talent, as well as a remarkable blatant disregard for members of the ruling institutions.  In many of his works, then, the subjects he painted are often formally elegant on the surface, but are actually very critical, to the point where they become obviously foolish.  Many of these works can be found in local museums today.  Goya was certainly an iconoclast, having ridiculed the court, and law, and even the laws of human love, in his work.  His images are indelibly marked on the imaginations of art lovers everywhere, and visitors to Madrid can see some of his most intimate works, painted in the city that was his home.