travel42 Hotel Review: Hospes Puerta de Alcala

Hospes Puerta de Alcala travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

This hotel is housed in a historical building heralding from the mid-1800s. Its brooding period facade is the perfect disguise for this contemporary treasure, and its wooden entryway was part of the original carriage entrance for horses when this was a private mansion.

With the towering Puerta de Alcala, the gateway to Madrid, just outside, the hotel has a central location embraced by the solitude of the royally divined Parque del Retiro. After years of r...