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There are not many places in the world where you can access a luxury shopping mall from your hotel through a safe. This is what is going to happen in just a few months in Galería Canalejas, the new benchmark of luxury in the capital, which will be connected to the Four Seasons
Hotel through that special passage, the original 19-ton safe that in the early 1900s guarded the values of the Banco Hispano Americano.
It is just one of the exclusive experiences offered by this new golden mile in Madrid, a luxury complex anchored in excellence that sits on seven historic buildings, three of them considered of cultural interest. The Food Hall, the gastronomic proposal , was inaugurated in December , with 13 restaurants of all nationalities, a Michelin star and a French oyster bar with champagne. At the end of this spring it will be the turn of the shopping arcade, with 30 luxury fashion brands, including Omega and Rolex, in addition to those already in operation: Hermès and Cartier
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A project in which more than 1,500 people of 18 different nationalities will work. "Luxury is global, from the people who serve you," says Isabel Antolin, the woman behind this whole complex, its new Retail Director, who comes backed by her career in another first-class reference, the Mexican Palacio del Hierro. The intention is to create a luxury corridor, in the style of other European capitals. "It exists in all major cities. In Milan, the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele is a destination in itself for tourists, Harrods in London or Lafayette in Paris. This is what Galerías Canalejas has to represent here, there is an institutional will of the City Council and the Community to regenerate
this area and give...