Spain 🇪🇸, Linares Palace

The Linares Palace, known in the early years as the Murga Palace, is a building in the Spanish city of Madrid, located between the Paseo de Recoletos and the Calle de Alcala, opening with its main facade the Plaza de Cibeles. 

It occupies the territory of the former Molinos de Plata and Posito Real de Madrid, a large grain warehouse designed to solve possible supply problems in the city. It was closed and unused for almost a century, but after painstaking restoration, it was reopened in 1992 as the House of America/Casa de América.

In 1992, in honor of the anniversary of the arrival in America of Christopher Columbus and the European cultural capital of Madrid, the Palacio de Linares was reopened after repairs carried out by architect Carlos Puente Fernandez as the House of America, the center of cultural exchange between Spain and America.