San Antonio de los Alemanes attraction

It stands out for being the only temple in Madrid with an ellipsoidal floor plan and for being completely frescoed. It is a baroque church founded in the early seventeenth century by Philip III. Visits are organized from Monday to Saturday and classical music concerts are regularly scheduled. 💡Curiosities It was originally called San Antonio de los Peregrinos, when Philip III offered the church and the adjoining hospital to the sick and Portuguese pilgrims passing through Madrid. When in 1640 the Spanish crown lost Portugal, the temple stopped welcoming Portuguese subjects and remained empty until, in 1689, Mariana of Austria ceded it to the Catholic Germans who accompanied Charles II's wife in Madrid. At that time it became known as San Antonio de los Alemanes.