Studio in the Movida neighborhood Malasaña Madrid

Description from the owner

CORAZÓN DE TIZA

THE SPACE

Corazón de Tiza is a studio apartment devoted to Madrid’s Movida. Its name is inspired by a famous Spanish Top 1 song from the Radio Futura band. We are surrounded by movie posters, books and comics, photographs and original records…

The colours and the brightness give a special atmosphere to the Corazón de Tiza. When the sunlight hits the 80’s disco balls, we live an almost magical moments!

The apartment is on the first floor of a newly constructed building of the Malasañana neighbourhood. The peace one can enjoy in the studio apartment is in bright contrast with the hustle and bust...le of one of the most traditional and innovative neighbourhoods of Madrid.

The light filters through the two balconies that oversee the gardens of the Ministry of Justice. From inside the vast sofa, one can unfold two independent very comfortable 105cmx200cm beds with high quality mattresses. The coffee table can be raised to transform into a dinner table for 4 people. A small bar with two colourful stools can be found next to the kitchen.

Amenities included at El Corazón de Tiza: Natural gas heating, iPod/iPhone loudspeakers, wireless Internet, LCD 46” screen TV, ceiling fan, microwave oven, espresso coffee maker, vitro-ceramic stove, refrigerator, washing machine, vacuum cleaner, iron, juicer, electric kettle, whisk, toaster and hair dryer.

THE ART

In line with the spirit of the song that gave the apartment its name, we are faced with a chalk board full of artistic chalk heart-shaped drawings on the main wall of the living-room. Everyone can leave a message on it.

The original record of the Radio Futura song “Corazón de Tiza” shares the space with others mythical records from the Movida: “Al calor del amor en un bar” from Gabinete Caligari , “A colocarse y al loro” from Al fondo hay sitio and “Made in Spain” from Miguel Bosé with an original Andy Warhol sleeve.

Movie posters of legendary Spanish movies from the 80’s like “Arrebato”, “Bajarse al moro” and “Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón”. Photographs that take us back to those years with their unique attire, figures, places…

A triptych from the Portuguese painter J. Vieira presides over the sofa.Read more

Additional Location Information

Plaza del “2 de Mayo”: here, on the 2nd of may 1808, two young captains, Luis Daoíz and Pedro Velarde fought the Napoleonic army. 172 years later, this same place was the birthplace of the trend that would place the city of Madrid in the vanguard of the musical, plastic and cinematographic arts: the “Movida”. “There were four of us”, remembers the film director Pedro Almodovar, “but we made a lot of noise”.

From a day to another, the black and white city of our childhood and youth became the city of colourful Mohawk haircuts and leather jackets customized to suit the user’s taste. An alteration. The Madrid Nouvelle Vague took shape losing its prejudices in this peaceful, almost intimate spot of Madrid, the breeding ground of the most eccentric, the most provocative projects.

Film directors and musicians, fashion designers, plastic artists and drawers, out of nowhere and for whom “there’s nowhere like away from home”, found shelter in the various bars of the area, the new temples of the hedonist gospel, nowadays the pilgrimage places for those that come from Paris or New York to “get up to date”. From those days and still up and running, one can find La Vía Láctea, founded in 1979 with the objective of bringing to Madrid the aesthetics of New York’s musical bares; and El Penta, that Antonio Vega immortalized in his song “La chica de ayer”.

Time went by and Malasaña is still encouraging this peculiar mix without any complexes between traditional and modern shops. Through its streets, the old-fashioned grocer’s shops where traditions have been kept alive for centuries stand side to side with the tattoos studios and the modern shops where the “vintage” has taken over the ancient.

Here, the new trend of “micro-theatre” blends with the old-fashioned cafés: Ruiz, the Parnasillo or Pepe Botella, in 12, San Andrés street; the café La Palma, in the street with the same name; the Comercial, in the close-by Glorieta de Bilbao, a few meters away from the old Real Hospicio del Ave María y San Fernando, nowadays a Pedro de Ribera work of art metropolitan museum.

One piece of information: in Malasaña one can find more bookshops than supermarkets, hardware stores or real estate agencies.

A Samuel Fergusson tale

Location Type City, Downtown

Rental fees

Additional notes from owner

The security deposit is to be left by credit card to the Estancias con Arte assistant who will welcome you to the apartment through a pre-authorization operation in which the amount will NOT be charged NOR retained on the credit card, but only made available in case it needs to be charged after check-out. This operation will be cancelled 48-72 hours after check-out. We advise all our clients to check with their bank prior to their arrival if their credit card allows operations of at least 300 €.

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