ALCOBA PIETER BRUEGEL, the elder.
"NO-SMOKING" ROOM

This bedchamber was originally the living room of the home. It has a king bed, desk, fireplace and large bathroom with a sunken double whirlpool bath, separate shower and a small interior garden.  A stone stairway leads to a large loft, where there is a sofa bed and a desk.

Like all “Estrella de Belem” bedchambers, it has insulated windows, radiant heat floors, air conditioning, an LCD television, high-speed internet access, electronic safe and direct-dial telephone.  The furniture is French country style and is made of alder, a tree from the British Isles that the Celts and Scots believed was sacred.





The oil painting that decorates the room is a copy of “The Adoration of the Magi” by Bruegel the Elder.   “The Adoration of the Magi” is an archetypal image and has been extensively painted by artists of all epochs and all styles.  Nevertheless, only a few manage to give it a new air.  Bruegel has done this with imagination and anti-traditionalism that can be compared to Hieronymus Bosch.  He exaggerates the features of the protagonists, making them grotesque and absurd.  There are comic traces and burlesque variations that help us to see the subject in a new light. 



Pieter Bruegel the Elder is one of the most famous Flemish painters of the 16th century.  His genius has frequently been compared to Bosch, with whom he shares a certain fantastic treatment in works such as “The Triumph of Death.”  He was practically unknown in his formative years; however, he appears to have been a man of certain culture, as he knew scholars and scientists of his country.  He traveled through Italy to learn renaissance painting, studying for a time with a Sicilian master.  During the trip, he produced an important collection of Alps landscape drawings.  Perhaps this was more important for his career than what he learned from the Italians, as upon his return, he developed a series of landscapes very well known in Europe through etchings.   Bruegel died in 1569.