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The Canalejas project, a boast of the city’s expansion as attractive, opens up amid considerations on cultural heritage coverage and the accumulation of coronavirus cases.
By Raphael Minder
MADRID – In the center of Madrid, the promoters have given the finishing touch to one of the most ambitious and sumptuous tourism projects to be carried out in the Spanish capital.
When the Canalejas complex, a progression priced at six hundred million euros, or $712 million, opens this month, it will have room for a five-star Four Seasons hotel, a grocery mall and two dozen luxury lofts.
The transfer presents the expansion of Madrid as a European tourist center, but it has also become a test of the city’s ability to succeed over the impact of the coronavirus crisis, as has happened with some other outbreak in instances since the summer. The return made Madrid the center of the pandemic in Spain.
Despite the additional pressure, developers are moving forward in the hope of attracting visitors to Canalejas, Madrid’s monetary center, which has basically moved to the outskirts of the city since the beginning of this century. The combination to shape the Canalejas complex was once owned by banks and insurers. Some of the buildings were erected when Spain still had a colonial empire.
Canalejas responded “not only to the legal responsibility to maintain the cultural heritage of this city, but also to a transparent preference among many tourists for feeling that they appreciate classic buildings full of history,” said Carlos Lamela, project’s leading architect. to the site.
The facades of the buildings have been preserved, Mr. Lamela, and 14,000 of the original interior elements have been preserved or recycled, from the door handles to the wooden panels and marble columns of the convention hall. past, while some of the large vault doors have been reused to customize the passages.
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