The Duchess of Parcent, the woman who turned her palace in Madrid into an area of freedom

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The Duchess of Parcent, the woman who turned her palace in Madrid into an area of freedom

During the 18th century, the street Ancha de San Bernardo was chosen by a large part of the Madrid aristocracy to install their palaces and thus show their power. Already in the 17th century, at the time of Philip III, this road was one of the busiest in Madrid. Its relative proximity to the Royal Palace and its wide and wide layout in a city of narrow streets (the neighboring Gran Vía would take a long time to break through), made it the perfec…