![]() Calizas de Colmenar group is a company with more than four decades of experience in the Natural Stone business. As supplier of the National Patrimony, it has intervened in the realization and restoration in a great number of projects, the Real Palaces de Madrid an Aranjuez, the Prado Museum, Madrid... Receiving National Awards of Architecture and Special Mentions. (Bibilioteca Puerta Toledo, Madrid. Fuente de los Huertos, Colmenar de Oreja, Madrid. Calizas de Colmenar its has know how to combine the history and quality of their stones with the advanced processes of production, achieving that materials with more than 2.000 years old are used in the most modern buildings of the world. In the 18th century under the reign of Carlos III, it was the stone chosen by the great contemporary architects, Juan de Villanueva and Francisco Sabatini. These and other architects were aware that this noble stone gave their buildings a quality and elegance that was imposible to achieve with other materials, using it in major works such as the Prado Museum and the Royal Palaces and Gardens of Madrid and Aranjuez. Colmenar stone has as its major virtues a texture and natural composition that resist with total guarantee great temperature, changes and the action of external agents such as ice, rain, sun, polution, etc. |