Where is Gran Hotel Inglés?

At Calle de Echegaray 8, in the Centro district of Madrid. The nearest metro station is Sevilla, on line 2, about five minutes away.

Which museums and sights are near Gran Hotel Inglés?

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum is 400 m away, Plaza Mayor is 650 m away, Museo Nacional del Prado is 700 m away. Distances are in a straight line from the hotel.

Does Gran Hotel Inglés have a swimming pool?

No. Gran Hotel Inglés has no swimming pool.

When did Gran Hotel Inglés open?

In 1886, by its own account. It has 48 rooms, by the hotel's count when it reopened.

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Gran Hotel Inglés

In the narrow streets of the Barrio de las Letras, where Cervantes and Lope de Vega lived, the Gran Hotel Inglés claims to be the oldest hotel in Madrid. It was rebuilt and reopened after years of closure, and is small enough to feel like a house.

Class: Five-star hotel
Opened: 1886
Rooms: 48 rooms, by the hotel's count when it reopened
Area: Barrio de las Letras

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What sets Gran Hotel Inglés apart

A café owner's hotel
The hotel says that Agustín Ibarra, owner of the Café Inglés, opened it in 1886 on what was then the Calle del Lobo, now Echegaray, to offer a first-class restaurant and rooms to match the best in Europe.
A restaurant in a hotel
By its own account it was the first hotel in the city to have its own restaurant inside it.
The war
During the Civil War the building served as a hospital.
The Barrio de las Letras
The literary quarter of the Golden Age, with its bars and the Plaza de Santa Ana, is all around. The Puerta del Sol is five minutes away, and the Prado ten.

What it has

Restaurant
Bar
Reading rooms

Where Gran Hotel Inglés is

Address

Calle de Echegaray 8
28014 Madrid, Spain

Nearest metro

Sevilla, on line 2, about five minutes away

Museums and sights nearby

Distances are in a straight line from the hotel.

Madrid's oldest hotel, by its own account

The hotel dates itself to 1886, and gives 17 December of that year as the day it first opened its doors. One of its own pages speaks of a history going back to 1853. Neither date could be checked against another source.

After a long closure the building was restored, and it reopened as a small hotel with its rooms and reading rooms rebuilt.