At the intersection of Calle Hermosillo and the Paseo de la Castellana, where Madrid's Salamanca district announces its ambitions in cream limestone and wrought iron, a 1953 building crowned by a bronze allegorical figure has anchored one of the city's most legible addresses for seven decades. Hotel Fenix Gran Meliá fills nine floors of that structure — a mid-century interpretation of Beaux-Arts grandeur with deeply rusticated base courses, paired pilasters across the upper storeys, and terrace balustrades stepping the roofline back in careful rhythm — and its 145 rooms carry that register inward through coffered cornicing, panel-moulded walls, and deep-buttoned leather headboards in tobacco brown set within classical niched surrounds. The interiors balance period conviction with a measured contemporary overlay. Guest rooms pair Louis XVI-style walnut writing tables and bergère armchairs in greyed linen against chocolate-stripe carpeting, the mood restrained and warm rather than archly nostalgic. The bar draws the contrast most sharply: full-height walnut panelling, plasterwork coffered ceilings, and large-scale oil paintings in gilded frames are set against tufted blush-pink banquettes and oversized magenta drum lampshades — a deliberate punctuation that keeps the room from tipping into pastiche. The rooftop restaurant opens through French doors onto a terrace furnished with black-and-ivory bistro chairs, the city's skyline providing the kind of context that makes even a glass-topped table feel consequential.

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The Hotel Gran Melia Fenix is a reference of the finest in the city's hotel industry, and member of the exclusive group of The Leading Hotels of the World. With its Fenix Cocktail Bar, it is the foremost example of luxury and service with all of the Spanish charisma.Its magnificent location in the exclusive Salamanca neighbourhood, in the heart of the financial district and surrounded by the famous streets of Serrano, Velazquez, Goya and on the Paseo of la Castellana.