URSO Hotel & Spa Madrid review: a real sense of retreat in Spain’s stylish capital

This upmarket property is calm, modern and dripping with grandeur

URSO Hotel & Spa Madrid

URSO Hotel & Spa is located where the upmarket districts of Chamberí, Tribunal, and Chueca intersect, far enough from the tourist trail in Madrid. The early 20th century building, designed by Spanish architect José María Mendoza Ussía, is all clean lines and symmetry on the outside – calm, modern and dripping with grandeur. Inside, many of the original features from its early incarnation as home to Papelera Española, Spain’s dominant paper company during the 20th century, remain – the raised central patio where one now takes breakfast, bathed in light and surrounded by living moss walls, to the stained glass windows, decorative tiles and slick marble.

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