{"id":1814,"date":"2025-05-15T23:26:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T23:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2026-06-10T18:45:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:45:46","slug":"beautiful-wood-doors-in-madrid-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/beautiful-wood-doors-in-madrid-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful wood doors in Madrid, Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first things I noticed as I arrived in Madrid and started exploring the city was the abundance of beautiful, old wooden doors. Not just regular wood doors, but elaborately designed doors, such as the one on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cultura.gob.es\/cultura\/areas\/cine\/mc\/fe\/portada.html\" title=\"Filmoteca Espanola\" rel=\"noopener nofollow \" target=\"_blank\">Filmoteca Espa\u00f1ola<\/a> as you can see above. The Filmoteca Espa\u00f1ola is Spain&#8217;s national film archive, but the building itself is known as the Palacio del Marqu\u00e9s de Perales, and was built in 1732 by Pedro de Ribera, in a baroque style. I don&#8217;t know if this current door is original and dates back to 1732, but it certainly is beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>The door seen below, along with the detail view of its lion knocker, is from a building at Calle de Zorrilla 7. There&#8217;s a street-level restaurant to the left of this door, and it appears that the floors above are part of the Hotel Soho Boutique Congreso. I did not go into either establishment, but enjoyed the beauty of their doors as seen from the street.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1816\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1816\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/wood-door-with-lion-knocker-Madrid.jpg\" alt=\"wood door with lion knocker in Madrid, Spain\" width=\"850\" height=\"560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1816\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1816\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood door with detail view of lion knocker in Madrid, Spain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This next one is located at Calle del Mes\u00f3n de Paredes, 5, but it&#8217;s not clear to me what is located at this address. But look at those elaborate swirls in the center panels with the diamond shaped elements above and below. Again, I wonder how old this door is, and it shows some wear and tear, but it&#8217;s just gorgeous.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1817\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1817\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/old-wooden-doors-in-Madrid.jpg\" alt=\"old wooden doors in Madrid, Spain\" width=\"850\" height=\"1075\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1817\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old wooden door at C. del Mes\u00f3n de Paredes, 5.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first things I noticed as I arrived in Madrid and started exploring the city was the abundance of beautiful, old wooden doors. Not just regular wood doors, but elaborately designed doors, such as the one on the Filmoteca Espa\u00f1ola as you can see above. The Filmoteca Espa\u00f1ola is Spain&#8217;s national film archive, &#8230; <a title=\"Beautiful wood doors in Madrid, Spain\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/beautiful-wood-doors-in-madrid-spain\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Beautiful wood doors in Madrid, Spain\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[453,700,797],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-explore","tag-madrid","tag-spain","tag-wood-doors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3124,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions\/3124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}