Visita guiada de Nuevo Baztán

The Guided Tour of Nuevo Baztán is an interpretive heritage tourism resource that allows visitors to learn about the historical complex of Nuevo Baztán, in the Community of Madrid. The experience focuses on the reading of the urban layout, the palace and the church, in a municipality conceived as an illustrated project linked to the early industrialization of the eighteenth century. Nuevo Baztán was born at the beginning of the 18th century on the initiative of Juan de Goyeneche and with architectural planning attributed to José Benito de Churriguera. The sources highlight its condition of historical-artistic complex and its unitary design, in which residential, industrial and representative spaces are integrated around squares and main buildings. From the artistic point of view, the complex is linked to the Castilian Baroque, with an urban composition that is both functional and monumental. Among the documented heritage elements are the Goyeneche Palace, the church, the historic squares and the old industrial complex, which explain the origin of the place as a settlement for artisans and workers. The guided tour offers, therefore, a brief but rigorous approach to an enclave created ex novo to materialize an economic and urban project of the Spanish Enlightenment, today oriented to the dissemination and enhancement of its historical heritage.