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José Luis Sancho Gaspar
En 1878 Alfonso XII ordenó la creación de unas habitaciones en la planta baja del Palacio Real de Madrid para hospedar a soberanos extranjeros en visita oficial. Esta posibilidad, fácil ya en la era del ferrocarril, era importante para la dinastía tras la Restauración de 1875. Dirigió las obras el arquitecto José Segundo de Lema que en aquellos años reformó también la planta principal de Palacio dentro del mismo gusto historicista, con suntuosas telas francesas. Convertidas luego en “Cuarto del Príncipe”, estas salas, desconocidas e inéditas hasta ahora, se conservan en un estado muy próximo al original y al de 1931.
In 1878 Alfonso XII had a set of rooms arranged and decorated in the ground floor of Madrid Royal Palace in order to accommodate the foreign royal visitors which would visit his court. Official visits, made easier by the railway boom, were important for the Bourbons, as the dynasty had been just restored in 1875. The King’s architect, José Segundo de Lema, directed this work at the same time, and in the same taste, as he refurbished the royal appartments in the main floor of the Palace, with rich French upholstery. Inhabited later by the Heir to the Throne, these rooms, never studied before, are kept quiteas they looked between 1880 and 1931.
