Four years after Madrid City Hall approved its transformation into a hotel, the Metrópolis building will reopen its doors to the public. It will be a limited launch, as the majority of the property will have limited access as its developers, the Paraguas Group, will manage it as a private club, they reported in a statement.
The reopening will take place on January 21, 2026, 115 years after its first inauguration. It opens its doors under the name Club Metrópolis in reference to the private nature of the facilities, which will include seven gastronomic spaces and a boutique hotel with 19 rooms, according to the project designed by Marta Seco and Sandro Silva, partners of the Paraguas Group.
“We are going to bring together the authentic patrons of the art of living of our time,” assert its promoters in a long interview for Vanitatis, explaining that they have already filled their first quota of members and have a waiting list. They claim to have chosen them “one by one” from “an international community”, with profiles from the cultural, social and economic world.
“The partners will be people of judgment. Women and men who appreciate the essential, who travel, create, direct, inspire and contribute”, they indicate in the same interview, in addition to ensuring that “they all share the same sensitivity: the taste for what is well done, for what is true; people with vital energy, elegant by nature and sophisticated, but, and this is important, without pretensions”.
Their idea is that these partners have “absolute priority in all spaces” and that the only place where they will be able to mingle with the rest of Madrid will be the 1,500 m2 of the ground floor (of the more than 6,000 m2 of the building). “This club will be the place to be of Madrid: the place where interesting things always happen and the best example of how to live this city”, they say about their intentions regarding this space. “A place designed to be appreciated through different experiences and around which an intense and elevated social life will revolve.”
Seco and Silva say this is the largest project they have embarked on and decided to renovate the entire building after viewing the space to evaluate possible options. “One day they told us that the entire upstairs area was going to be coworking. And we: Damn, that can’t be the case!“, they say about this moment.
The building, which will have a maximum reception capacity of 1,283 people, according to the project approved by the City Hall, was created with the aim of animating an international circuit of private spaces of reference for this group of luxury restaurants, which a few months ago opened The Library next to the Puerta de Alcalá, a bar-cellar with high prices per glass and a Wine Society limited to 90 members, with an entry fee of 6,000 euros for access its services and an obligation to spend annually on wines. of at least 20,000 euros.
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