SINCE 1868 From a 19th century corrala to an exclusive 21st century boutique hotel This inn, located in Cava Baja, in the La Latina neighborhood and a short walk from Plaza Mayor, was built by the Marqués de Cubas as a guest house in 1868, continued as a Parador or Posada del Dragón in the name of its owner in 1880, Pedro Villoria, demolished at the end of the 19th century and rebuilt at the beginning of the 20th century, a time when it began to serve as accommodation for Rastro merchants and suppliers of the very close to the La Cebada market. The inn owes its name to the dragon that it had carved on the now-defunct Puerta de Moros (one of the entrances to the walled enclosure of Madrid), and it preserves inside a 19th-century corral, remains of the medieval Christian wall, a marble, a trough-trough and a wooden staircase, all of them protected historical elements. Currently, it has been transformed into an exclusive boutique hotel, with 27 rooms and a singular design, which, although it has all the technological innovations of the present, plays with the contrast between old and new elements, mixing nineteenth-century architectural elements with rooms from the twenty-first century: wood and iron with glass and steel.