RENAISSANCE (FACT)

In the sixteenth century, Philip II moved the court to Madrid, first established a law that lasted until 1860 and forced the inhabitants of the city to stay at home to members of the Court, thus solving the problem of ambassadors hosting, servers, staff, etc.

For this, a charge created called "regalia room" which forced homeowners tiered to give the other plants, for free, to those members of the Court.

For centuries, most of the houses in Madrid, except the floors of the Plaza Mayor, had only one plant. Consequently, the locals began building houses on one level, not to fulfill this obligation.

These houses were calls "uncomfortable sharing" and that rogue Madrid, so often emerges, dubbed "houses to malice" because maliciously sought ways to avoid the tax.

The two-story houses were camouflaged for inspection, allocating apparently stable ground floor, the first housing and the second loft, but in reality all rooms used for living.

But also, there was another reason. The first floor belonged to the king, which he could sell it to whoever wanted. If the owner had money, I bought the king but if he had, it was preferable to build a house with one floor.

It is estimated that at the beginning of the sixteenth century was in Madrid a few thousand "houses to malice", causing an overpopulation problem within a confined space that was limited by a surrounding wall.

The days of the Royalty of Chamber have been forgotten, fortunately today Madrid grows, perhaps exaggerated in size and height, it seems that you can not stay stagnant. At the top of the Paseo de la Castellana we have built four skyscrapers, some in various stages of completion Advanced, which are the highest in Madrid, are: Torre Caja Madrid, Sacyr-Vallermoso Tower, Crystal Tower and Torre Espacio.

                       

MADRID CAPITAL EN EL RENACIMIENTO (curiosidades).

En el siglo XVI,  Felipe II trasladó la Corte a Madrid, estableció por primera vez una ley que duró hasta 1860 y que obligaba a los habitantes de la ciudad a alojar en sus casas a los miembros de la Corte, para solucionar así el problema del alojamiento de embajadores, servidores, funcionarios, etc.

Para esto, creó una carga llamada "regalía de aposento" que obligaba a los propietarios de casas de más de un piso a ceder las demás plantas, de forma gratuita, a dichos miembros de la Corte.

Durante siglos, la gran mayoría de las casas de Madrid, salvo los pisos de la Plaza Mayor, tenían tan sólo una planta. En consecuencia, los madrileños comenzaron a construir casas de una sola planta, para no cumplir con esta obligación.

Estas casas eran llamadas de "incómoda repartición" y que la picaresca madrileña, que tantas veces aflora, bautizó como "casas a la malicia" porque maliciosamente se buscaba la forma de eludir el impuesto.

Las casas de dos pisos se camuflaban en caso de inspección, destinando aparentemente la planta baja a establos, la primera a viviendas y la segunda a desván, aunque en la realidad se utilizaban todas las estancias para vivir.

Pero además, había otro motivo. El primer piso pertenecía al rey, el cual, podía venderlo a quien quisiera. Si el dueño tenía dinero, se lo compraba al rey pero si no lo tenía, era preferible construir una casa con una sola planta.

Se calcula que a principios del siglo XVI  había en Madrid unas mil "casas a la malicia", provocando un problema de superpoblación dentro de un espacio reducido que estaba limitado por una muralla circundante.

Aquellos tiempos de la Regalía de Aposento han quedado en el olvido, por fortuna hoy Madrid crece, quizá exageradamente, en extensión y en altura, da la impresión de que ya no puede quedarse estancada. En la parte alta del Paseo de la Castellana se han levantado cuatro rascacielos, alguno en diferentes fases de avanzada terminación, que son los más altos de Madrid, son los siguientes: Torre Caja Madrid, Torre Sacyr-Vallermoso, Torre Cristal y Torre Espacio.

THE RENAISSANCE.

Renaissance means the cultural phenomenon that, in the beginning of the modern age, recalls the principles of classical culture (Greek and Roman) Humanism updating it through without giving up the Christian tradition, but replacing the omnipresence of religious medieval world by an affirmation of the values ​​of the world and man, regardless of their religious beliefs.

A static conception of the universe, in all respects, it will happen a dynamic full of initiatives and experiments, that will change in less than a century the economic, social, scientific, political and geographical world.

On the artistic side, the Renaissance is a world supported on models of the Greco-Roman beginning to be studied in a rigorous, and seek in them a scientific and mathematical definitions of beauty and harmony. The beauty will be the expression of an intellectual order and profane, that to the extent, order and proportion finds its own language. We will study the nature and will be in a new science, the perspective, the proper mode of representation, and the naked human body is, the ultimate, the perfections and the primary object of the artists, reflecting the anthropocentrism of humanist thought.

Is Italy where crystallizes before this new worldview and art. Is more advanced socially and economically for their organization of open cities, and enriched by European trade throughout the Middle Ages. In the fifteenth century Italian mature forms with abundant remains of the Roman world present in the soil, which collects the wealthy bourgeoisie, studied and evaluated as an indicator of culture.
By contrast, in the rest of Europe this style will break Renaissance later, and is due to the matured forms of Italy. The Renaissance Spanish, French, German, Dutch, .. be a phenomenon emerged in contact with Italian and its origins must fix time around 1490 - 1500, when Italy has already done much of the most significant new style .

                                     La basílica de San Pedro, Roma.