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{{Shortshort description|Residence of the Prime Minister of Spain}}
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| name = Moncloa Palace
| native_name = ''Palacio de Lala Moncloa''
| native_name_lang = Spanish
| former_names = Palace of the Counts of Moncloa
| alternate_names = La Moncloa
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| owner = [[Government of Spain]]
| current_tenants = Prime Minister [[Pedro Sánchez (politician)|Pedro Sánchez]] and his family.
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| address = Avenida Puerta de Hierro, s/n
| location_town = [[Madrid]]
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[[File:LaMoncloa.jpg|thumb|270px|View of the set of La Moncloa Complex from the University City of Madrid]]
 
The '''Palace of Moncloa''' or '''Moncloa Palace''' ({{lang-es|Palacio de la Moncloa}}) is the [[official residence]] and workplace of the President of the Government (Spanish: ''Presidente del Gobierno''), a position usually known in the English language as the [[Prime Minister of Spain]]. It is located in Puerta de Hierro Avenue, in the [[Moncloa-Aravaca]] district in [[Madrid]]. It has been the official residence of the Prime Minister since 1977, when [[Adolfo Suárez]] moved the residence from the [[Palace of Villamejor]].
 
The Moncloa Complex includes 16 buildings, a [[bunker]] and a hospital. The [[Ministry of the Presidency (Spain)|Ministry of the Presidency]], the [[Deputy Prime Minister of Spain|Deputy Prime Minister's Office]], the [[Cabinet Office (Spain)|Cabinet Office]], the [[Moncloa Chief of Staff|Chief of Staff's Office]] and the [[Spokesperson of the Government of Spain|Press Office]] are located in this complex. The weekly meetings of the [[Council of Ministers (Spain)|Council of Ministers]] are also held at La Moncloa.
 
In Spain, 'Moncloa' is sometimes used as a [[metonym]] for the central government, especially when contrasting with the governments of the [[Autonomous Communities]].
 
==History==
{{Seesee also|Palacio de La Moncloa before the Spanish Civil War}}
The Moncloa Palace was originally a farm for agricultural use, which, due to its good situation, later became a palace-house. In 1660 it was bought by Gaspar de Haro y Guzmán, Marquis of Carpio and Eliche, owner of the neighboring orchard of La Moncloa, a name that came from its former owners, the Counts of Monclova, which later gave rise to Moncloa, as know today.
 
When the two gardens were joined, Gaspar de Haro had a palace built on the highest part of the land, known first as Eliche's Palace and also as Painted House, in reference to the frescoes that adorned the exterior walls, and later as Palace of La Moncloa.
 
The Palace passed through different owners until reaching [[Maria del Pilar Teresa Cayetana de Silva Alvarez de Toledo|María del Pilar Teresa Cayetana de Silva Álvarez de Toledo]], 13th [[Duchy of Alba|Duchess of Alba de Tormes]]. ToAfter hisher death without descendants in 1802, King [[Charles IV of Spain|Charles IV]] acquired the mansion and the orchard and added it to the Royal Site of La Florida, which was then callednamed the Royal Site of La Moncloa. In 1816, King [[Ferdinand VII of Spain|Ferdinand VII]] ordered the restoration of the palace.
 
Thirty years later, Queen [[Isabella II of Spain|Isabella II]] ceded the property of La Moncloa to the State, whichand it went on to becamebecome part of the [[Ministry of Development (Spain)|Ministry of Development]]. The palace was restored again in 1929, when it was reopened as a museum.
 
The Palace was destroyed during the [[Siege of Madrid]] in the [[Spanish Civil War]].<ref>{{Citecite news |title=El Palacio de la Moncloa, una historia en cinco siglos |url=https://www.abc.es/espana/la-transicion-espanola/abci-palacio-moncloa-historia-cinco-siglos-201706130314_noticia.html|title=El Palacio de la Moncloa, una historia en cinco siglos|work=abc |access-date=2018-08-03 |language=es-ES}}</ref>
 
A decade after its destruction, the architect Diego Méndez built, between 1949 and 1953, the present building following the model of the [[Casa del Labrador]] of [[Aranjuez]]. Then it was destined to official residence of heads of State in visits to [[Spain]] and high personalities.
 
By a law of July 15, 1954, the Moncloa Palace and its gardens, with an area of 58,293.81 square meters and adjoining the four cardinal points with land of the [[University City of Madrid]], was integrated into the [[Patrimonio Nacional|National Heritage]]. The new design was adapted to the new functions assigned to the palace, which was inaugurated by [[Francisco Franco]] in 1953. On June 3, 1954, arrived the palace's first visiting foreign head of state, [[Rafael Leonidas Trujillo]].; Onon November 28, 1976, the last one, [[Carlos Andrés Pérez]].
 
In 1977, Prime Minister [[Adolfo Suárez]] moved the headquarters of the Presidency of the Government, located until then in the central Villamejor Palace, to the far more remote La Moncloa. The change occurred, fundamentally, and given the remote location of the palace, away from the center of [[Madrid]], for security reasons, in the face of concern that an attack against the young prime minister, newly appointed by [[King Juan Carlos I]]. With the new palace was also established on it the official residence for the Prime Minister and his family.
 
==Renovations==
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[[José María Aznar]], [[Ana Botella]], their three sons and two cocker dogs lived at Moncloa between 1996 and 2004. Aznar was responsible for the construction of a game room for his children as well as a paddle tennis court to practice his favorite sport. [[Sonsoles Espinosa]], wife of the Prime Minister [[José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero]], decided to radically renovate the private rooms. She favored a minimalist style, painting the rooms light colors, changing classic furniture for different designs (but retaining certain pieces such as the table of General Narváez, a gift from Juan Carlos I to Adolfo Suárez located in the Prime Minister's Office) and hung pictures of contemporary artists on the walls. [[Mariano Rajoy]] and his wife did not make many changes that are known beyond swapping out the vases.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.lavozdeasturias.es/noticia/espana/2018/06/05/viviran-pedro-sanchez-familia-moncloa/00031528199249126419746.htm|title=Así vivirán Pedro Sánchez y su familia en la Moncloa|date=2018-06-05|work=La Voz de Asturias|access-date=2018-08-03|language=es-ES}}</ref>
[[File:Palacio de la Moncloa, (2)Madrid, croppedEspaña edited.jpg|thumb|Northwest facade of Moncloa]]
 
==Public access and security==
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=== INIA Building ===
The INIA building was built in 1953 by the architect José Azpiroz. It receives this name for having housed the National Institute of Agrarian Research (INIA). It's is also known as the Monastery of the Presidency because for its resemblance to a [[monastery]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/03/27/album/1522143020_493174.html|title=Fotos: Las tripas de La Moncloa|last=Rodríguez|first=Jesús|date=2018-04-15|work=El País|access-date=2019-03-29|last2=Lejarcegi|first2=Gorka|language=es|issn=1134-6582}}</ref>
 
It is currently the headquarters of the [[Ministry of the Presidency (Spain)|Ministry of the Presidency]].<ref name=":0" />
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==Prime Minister's Office==
{{Main|Office of the Prime Minister of (Spain)}}
 
The Prime Minister's Office lies within the Moncloa Palace. It is staffed by a mix of career Civil Servants and Advisers. The highest ranking of the Office is the [[Moncloa Chief of Staff|Chief of Staff]], which is a political appointment on which the rest of the Office officials depend.
 
===Current positions within the Office of the Prime Minister===
{| class="wikitable"
! Position
! Current holder
! Term started
|-
| [[Moncloa Chief of Staff]]
| '''[[Óscar López Águeda]]'''
| 14 July 2021
|-
| [[Spokesperson of the Government of Spain|Spokesperson of the Government]]
|'''[[Isabel Rodríguez García]]'''
| 12 July 2021
|-
|[[Secretary of State for Press]]
| '''Francesc Vallés'''
| 21 July 2021
|-
| Moncloa Deputy Chief of Staff
|'''Llanos Castellanos'''
|21 July 2021
|-
| Secretary-General of the Prime Minister's Office
| '''Francisco Martín Aguirre'''
| 21 July 2021
|-
| Secretary-General for Economic Affairs and G20
| '''Manuel de la Rocha Vázquez'''
|31 December 2020
|-
|Director of the Department for Technical and Legal Coordination
|'''Judit Alexandra González Pedraz'''
|28 July 2021
|-
|Director of the Department for International Affairs
|'''Iván García Yustos'''
|29 January 2020
|-
| [[Department of Homeland Security (Spain)|Director of the Homeland Security Department]]
| '''[[Miguel Ángel Ballesteros]]'''
| 19 June 2018
|-
|Director of the Department for Foreign Affairs
|'''Emma Aparici Vázquez de Parga'''
|12 February 2020
|-
|Director of the Department for Analysis and Studies
|'''María Ramos Martín'''
|29 January 2020
|-
|Director of the Department for Public Policies
|'''José Alarcón Hernández'''
|28 July 2021
|-
|Director of the Department for Institutional Affairs
|'''Iván García Yustos'''
|29 January 2020
|-
|Director of the Department for the European Union
|'''María Aurora Mejía Errasquín'''
|12 February 2020
|-
|Director of the National Office for Long-Term Country Prospective and Strategy
|'''Diego Rubio Rodríguez'''
|5 February 2020
|-
| Director of the Protocol Department
| '''Jorge Mijangos Blanco'''
| 1 March 2019
|-
| Director of the Security Department
| '''María Marcos Salvador'''
| 14 September 2018
|-
| Director of the Department for Regional Information
| '''Raquel González Redondo'''
| 14 April 2021
|-
| Director of the Department for National Information
| '''Miguel Ángel Marfull Robledo'''
| 5 February 2020
|-
| Director of the Department for International Information
| '''María del Carmen Pérez Pérez'''
| 29 June 2018
|-
|Director of the Digital Department
|'''María Delia Rodríguez Marín'''
|26 February 2020
|-
| High Commissioner for the fight against child poverty
|'''Ernesto José Gasco Gonzalo'''
| 29 January 2020
|-
|Director of the High Commissioner for the fight against child poverty's Office
|'''Carmen Gayo Rodríguez'''
|19 February 2020
|-
| High Commissioner for Spain Entrepreneurial Nation
| '''Francisco de Paula Polo Llavata''' {{small|[[Congress of Deputies (Spain)|MP]]}}
|20 January 2020
|-
|Director of the High Commissioner for Spain Entrepreneurial Nation's Office
|'''Albert Medrán López'''
|5 February 2020
|-
 
|}
 
* On September 14, 2018, Pau Vicent Marí Klose was appointed High Commissioner for the fight against child poverty after [[María Luisa Carcedo]], the previous high commissioner was promoted to [[Ministry of Health (Spain)|Minister of Health]].
* On March 1, 2019, Jorge Mijangos Blanco was appointed Chief of the Protocol Department replacing Andrés Costilludo Gómez who was the Director of the Protocol Department of PM [[Mariano Rajoy]] (and of PM Sánchez between June 2018 and March 2019).
* On March 22, 2019, Pau Vincet Marí Klose was dismissed by the Prime Minister because Klose wanted to be candidate in the [[April 2019 Spanish general election|2019 general election]] and it wasn't compatible with the office. Since then, the Director of the Office of the High Commissioner, Sandra León Alfonso is the Acting High Commissioner.
* On April 5, 2019, Alberto Pozas Fernández resigned as Director-General for National Information after a possible case of espionage to political rivals in previous legislatures was uncovered in which he could be involved. Since then, the Deputy Director-General José María Caballero assumed the office as Acting Director-General.
*On January 13, 2020, Finance Minister María Jesús Montero replaced Education Minister [[Isabel Celaá]] as Government Spokesperson after the Cabinet reshuffle.
*On January 15, 2020, the deputy chief of staff, Andrea Gavela Llopis, was dismissed with no replacement.
*On January 23, 2020, Francisco José Salazar Rodríguez <small>[[Congress of Deputies|MP]]</small>, was appointed deputy chief of staff.
*On April 7, 2021, the director of the Department for Regional Information, Jesús Javier Perea Cortijo, was appointed Secretary of State for Migration and he was replaced by Raquel González Redondo on April 14.
*In July 2021, the prime minister carried out a deep reform of the Cabinet that entailed the replacement of the Chief of Staff, the Deputy Chief of Staff, the Secretary-General, the Deputy Secretary-General, and the Secretary of State for Press, among others.
 
===Structure of the Prime Minister's Office===
* '''[[Cabinet Office (Spain)|Prime Minister's Cabinet]]'''
*:It is the main body of the Office. It coordinates and oversees the rest of the departments. It is directed by the Chief of Staff.
* '''Secretariat of State for Press'''
*: It's the body that assumes the competencies over press. The [[Secretary of State for Press]] is in charge of this body, but depends from the Government's Spokesperson.
** Department for National Information
** Department for International Information
**Department for Regional Information
**Department for Economic Information
**Digital Department
**Information Logistics Unit
**Institutional Advertising Unit
**Deputy Directorate-General for Analysis and Documentation
* '''Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff'''
** Department for National Affairs
*** Education, Science and Culture Unit
*** Equality and Social Policies Unit
*** Justice and Interior Unit
***Fair Transition and Rural Environment Unit
***Transports, Housing and Consumer Affairs Unit
*** Coordination Unit
** Department for Political Affairs
*** Macroeconomic and Financial Policies Unit
*** Socio-Labor Policies Unit
** Department for Institutional Affairs
**Department for Analysis and Studies
* '''General Secretariat of the Office'''
** Office of the Deputy Secretary-General
** Department of Protocol
** Department of Security
**Department for Planning and Monitoring of Government Activity
* '''General Secretariat for International Affairs, European Union, G20 and Global Security'''
** Department for International Affairs and Global Security
** Department for European Affairs and G20
* '''Department of Homeland Security'''
 
== References ==
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