Bauer Palace

Situated in Malasaña district, in the central Calle San Bernardo, in 1940 it was acquired by the state and since 1973 has housed the offices of the Escuela Superior de Canto.

It was built in the eighteenth century for the Marquis of Guadalcázar, on a site formerly belonging to the novitiate of the Society of Jesus. In the nineteenth century it was bought by the Bauer banking family. In the twentieth century, the building was acquired by the State to house the Royal Conservatory of Music and, later, for the School of Dramatic Art and Dance. When these two schools moved to the Teatro Real, it was adapted once again, this time for the College of Singing, in accordance with plans drawn up by González Valcárcel, who turned the ballroom into a theatre, replacing the plaster on the front of the building with exposed brick.

The building consists of a basement, ground floor, main and attic floors, and has two main corner façades corner marked by stonework, brick walls and white stone fascias.