Tucked into the residential calm of Almagro, one of Madrid's most composed and undersung neighbourhoods, a seven-storey limestone-clad building announces itself with quiet authority — window boxes trailing green against pale stone, warm light leaking through bronze-framed windows at dusk. The Pavilions Madrid, part of the small international Pavilions Hotels & Resorts group, channels the district's early twentieth-century bourgeois character through a facade that has the proportion and restraint of classic Madrileño apartment architecture, while the interior pivots sharply toward a contemporary art-hotel sensibility. That contrast is where the property earns its distinction. Guest rooms alternate between two dominant moods — one wrapping walls in deep charcoal and near-black textured finishes, with low velvet armchairs and large-format canvases in crimson and ink-wash gestural abstraction, the other shifting to burnt sienna and terracotta with engraved panoramic friezes at dado height referencing old Madrid cartography, beside Flos-style sculptural table lamps in amber mesh. Both approaches share dark wide-plank oak flooring and a sober, gallery-minded confidence with original artwork. The restaurant moves in a different register entirely: a glass-roofed conservatory structure with exposed pale brick walls, ivy threading overhead across the steel frame, burgundy velvet dining chairs arranged beside a curved oak bar — a greenhouse atmosphere that softens what is otherwise a rigorously urban hotel into something unexpectedly generous.

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Formerly The Amador de los Rios Hotel, the evolution to The Pavilions, designed by Studio Marincola Architects, interprets Madrid architectural styles in an innovative way, with a modern facade. Inside, though full of cutting-edge technologies, the hotel revels with warm, friendly Spanish hospitality. Stay in one of our 28 new modern designed rooms and suites, enjoy our new bar and restaurant, or sweat it out in the fitness area with up to date, professional "Technogym" equipment. Find us on the centrally located quiet street that is just moments away from the famous Plaza de Colon, and all of Madrid's exciting nightlife, exclusive shopping and business districts.