Public building · Madrid
Real Hospicio de San Fernando
Today: Museo de Historia de Madrid, Madrid
- Place
- Madrid
- Kind
- Public building
- Built
- 1721 to 1726
- What remains
- Standing
- Visiting
- Open to visit
The poorhouse of Ave María and San Fernando, built between 1721 and 1726 to designs by Pedro de Ribera, whose Churrigueresque doorway is held to be his masterpiece and a jewel of Madrid's Baroque. It ceased to be a poorhouse in 1922. It is now the Museo de Historia de Madrid, reopened in 2014.
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