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THE CAPITAL AND THE HABSBURGS

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After quelling the revolt commoner, Carlos I in Madrid is generous and gives the titles of Coronado and Imperial, began the transformation of the old Arab fortress. When Francis I of France was captured in the battle of Pavia, the place of his captivity will Lujanes Tower in Madrid. Also in the village is dated to the Treaty of Madrid in 1526 (later denounced by the French) to resolve your situation.
In June 1561, when the town already had 30,000 inhabitants, Felipe II moved his court from Toledo to Madrid, housed in the former palace. The reasons given for this move are varied. These include the need to separate the court from the influence of the powerful archbishop of Toledo, and the great affliction of the young Queen Isabel de Valois, stifled within the walls of the mighty fortress of Toledo and urged her husband to find a new home for the Court. The microclimate of Madrid, Toledo softer than its geographical location and its magnificent natural environment, made the town a very appropriate candidadata. With this, the town of Madrid becomes the political center of the monarchy.

As a result of the arrival of the court, the city's population begins to grow at a rapid pace. Rise noble buildings, churches and convents, the most distinguished the real foundation, as the Monastery of the Incarnation and the Royal Barefoot. It breaks down the old wall and, in 1566, stands a new, third in its history. People come to the capital to meet the needs of the court, and a host of suitors, adventurers, applicants to positions, Rogues ... were reported in the literature of the Golden Age of the King's policy gives a special physiognomy to the city states that, for lack of suitable living spaces for their noble and counselors, are expropriated second floors of the houses, which will be actual possession. This policy causes all new buildings tend to have a single floor, with patio and railings, with a second hidden from view of passersby and aldermen of the municipality. In 1562, Philip II acquired the fields and orchards of what would later Field House hunting.


 
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