Few buildings are as synonymous with Madrid as the Metrópolis. Crowned by the Winged Victory that has watched over the city for generations, its dome dominates the celebrated intersection of Gran Vía and Calle de Alcalá and has secured its status as one of Spain’s most important architectural landmarks since 1911.

For more than a century, Metrópolis has defined the Madrid skyline, its Beaux-Arts façade emblazoned on postcards and etched into the city’s collective imagination, yet behind that iconic silhouette the building itself has stood largely empty.

Today that changes with the opening of Club Metrópolis: a private members’ club and boutique hotel, conceived by acclaimed Spanish restaurateurs Marta Seco and Sandro Silva of Grupo Paraguas.

Reimagining the Metrópolis: The Return of a Landmark

The opening of Metrópolis represents one of Spain’s most ambitious hospitality projects in recent years. the project began in 2019, when the building’s owner invited Seco and Silva to open a stand-alone restaurant on the ground floor.

Recognising the architectural significance of the Metrópolis and its place in Madrid’s collective identity, Seco and Silva made a different proposal: to revive the whole building. What followed was several years of restoration led by Rubio Arquitectura under strict heritage protection, returning all seven floors of the Metrópolis to the social and cultural pinnacle of the city it has long defined.

Interiors are led by renowned Spanish designer Lázaro Rosa-Violán, who has approached Metrópolis less as a hospitality space than as a grand Madrid house. Drawing on the building’s Beaux-Arts grandeur, Rosa-Violán introduces a layered residential sensibility defined by warmth, texture and narrative detail.

Original architectural features are paired with curated artworks, bespoke furnishings and contemporary interventions to restore intimacy to the building’s monumental scale, creating spaces that feel both atmospheric and lived-in. The grand staircase, ornate cornicing and parquet floors have been thoughtfully preserved, while layered carpets and textiles introduce warmth and tactility throughout.

Metrópolis Club: A House for Contemporary Madrid

Spanning more than 6,000 square metres, Club Metropolis is a single address that brings together a private members’ club, seven dining rooms, wellness facilities and an intimate 19-room hotel, each unfolding with its own rhythm from morning through to late evening.

Designed to be experienced throughout the day and into the night, the Club moves effortlessly between work, leisure and social life. Members can begin their mornings with coffee overlooking the city skyline, host meetings and informal gatherings throughout the day, enjoy long lunches with friends, attend cultural events or retreat into the privacy of its thoughtfully designed spaces.

As the city transitions into evening, the Club becomes a setting for dinners, performances, celebrations and conversation. A year-round programme of more than 200 experiences, ranging from talks and artistic collaborations to musical encounters, wine tastings, private dinners and seasonal activations ensures it remains a living platform for ideas, creativity and community.

Gastronomy: Seven Restaurants, One Address

Gastronomy at Club Metrópolis is, without apology, Spanish. Across all seven dining rooms, not a single name is in English, a deliberate counterpoint to Madrid’s increasingly global identity.

Three are open to the public by reservation. Spa de Langostas, on the lower level, is devoted almost entirely to lobster. Tasca Fina reinterprets the Spanish tavern with greater refinement and precision, while Barra de Oricios gathers guests around a circular counter for seafood served simply, based on what has arrived that morning.

The remaining four experiences are reserved for members and hotel guests, forming the most considered expression of the building’s culinary identity. Victoria is the Club’s intimate fine-dining room, defined by restraint rather than range, where the tasting menu follows the market rather than the calendar. La Galería is the Club’s social heart: an all-day space where gastronomy, music and atmosphere coexist naturally, equally suited to a working lunch or a dinner that stretches late into the night. El Jardín moves the kitchen outdoors, focused on open-fire cooking beneath the sky. Above it all, beneath the dome, La Cúpula is dedicated entirely to cocktails, designed for the hours between dinner and the rest of the night.

Metrópolis Hotel: Rooms Above Gran Vía

Complementing the Club is Metrópolis Hotel, an intimate boutique hotel of just nineteen keys, comprising three signature suites and sixteen rooms. Conceived as an extension of the members’ experience, it offers a residential sense of privacy and calm within the same landmark setting, where historic architecture meets contemporary design through natural light, refined materials and sweeping views across Gran Vía and Calle Alcalá.

Interiors are defined by quiet precision and tactile detail. Bed linen is by Bassols, paired with Ezcaray blankets, and a choice of high-thread-count Egyptian cotton and silk. In-room touches include sweets from Madrid confectioner La Pajarita during evening turndown.

The hotel’s most distinctive spaces are its Circular Suites, located on the third and fourth floors: sculptural, drum-shaped rooms wrapped in uninterrupted 360-degree views across Madrid’s rooftops, offering a perspective of the city found nowhere else in the building.

Guests are not required to be Club members to stay. For the duration of their visit, they are granted full access to the Club’s restaurants, cultural programming and amenities, seamlessly integrated into the rhythm of the building.

A dedicated concierge service runs throughout, offering chauffeur transfers, private dining, tailoring, personal shopping and bespoke itineraries, ensuring each stay is shaped entirely around the guest.

Wellbeing and Fitness

Wellbeing at Club Metrópolis is approached in its broadest sense. Beauty treatments and tailored wellness programmes are designed around the individual rather than a fixed menu, while a Technogym-equipped fitness floor offers personal training and classes including yoga, pilates and functional movement.

A New Chapter for Madrid

With the opening of Club Metrópolis, Madrid welcomes more than a private members’ club or boutique hotel. It welcomes a new social and cultural destination that brings together gastronomy, creativity, wellbeing and community within one of the most extraordinary buildings in Spain.

At once historic and contemporary, local and international, Club Metrópolis is poised to become a new centre of gravity for Madrid life—an address where the city’s most interesting conversations, experiences and connections naturally come together.