Mediodia Hotel Madrid

General Information

Hotel Mediodia was constructed in 1914. It was founded during a prosperous intellectual and cultural period of time of the town.

Hotel Mediodia architecture of French influence is distinctive of the zone. Its substantial front resembles the French-Belgian tendencies of the early century. Its Parisian neoclassic fashion heightens the solemn palatial hotel look, so effective at that time.

Culture was growing all around the region where Hotel Mediodia would be erected later on; for instance, the space where Paseo del Prado is currently situated, and most specially the region between Puerta de Atocha and Cuatro Fuentes, remained a tree-lined st till the XVIII century.

But the real arising of Paseo del Prado as an municipal frame of the town of Madrid, did not occur till the reign of Carlos III when it was divided in 3 parts called San Fermin, San Jeronimo and Atocha.

The construction of the Museum of Natural Sciences commissioned by Carlos III himself, did also contribute to reform and embellish Paseo del Prado. The initiative, that would last throughout the reign of his son, would be interrupted by the War of Independence till the arrival of Fernando VII who finalized works and accomplished compilation of relevant sculptures and pictorial works that made possible to inaugurate the Museum in 1812.

In the 1st decade of the century, outstanding buildings of serene French artistic influence were built also by Alfonso XIII with the intention to embellish the town of Madrid.