The Palacio de las Cortes, also called the Palace of the Congress of Deputies, stands on the Plaza de las Cortes in Madrid and is the seat of the Congress of Deputies, the lower house of the Spanish Cortes Generales. Designed by architect Narciso Pascual Colomer and completed in 1850, the building presents a Neoclassical, Renaissance palace style facade over two floors, the lower level rusticated in stone and the upper marked by windows under triangular pediments. Its main entrance carries six Corinthian columns supporting a pediment decorated with allegorical figures of virtues and national themes, and a monumental staircase flanked by two bronze lions, cast from cannons captured during the African War of 1860 and named Daoiz and Velarde after two military heroes, leads up to the portico.
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Standing Status Building Type
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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Source Palacio de las Cortes, Madrid - Wikipedia
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1. Palacio de las Cortes, Madrid - Wikipedia
Infobox, location
Madrid, Spain
Infobox, completion_date
1850
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The Palacio de las Cortes, also called the Palace of the Congress of Deputies, stands on the Plaza de las Cortes in Madrid and is the seat of the Congress of Deputies, the lower house of the Spanish Cortes Generales. Designed by architect Narciso Pascual Colomer and completed in 1850, the building presents a Neoclassical, Renaissance palace style facade over two floors, the lower level rusticated in stone and the upper marked by windows under triangular pediments. Its main entrance carries six Corinthian columns supporting a pediment decorated with allegorical figures of virtues and national themes, and a monumental staircase flanked by two bronze lions, cast from cannons captured during the African War of 1860 and named Daoiz and Velarde after two military heroes, leads up to the portico.
- In Style: Neoclassical Architecture, infobox architectural_style field: Neoclassical
View the Source2. Palacio de las Cortes (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Palace)Quote, Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Palace)
Wikidata item Q9054619, instance of (P31): palace
3. Wikidata: Palacio de las Cortes
- Wikidata Q9054619, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q9054619, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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