Casa Suecia opened in 1956 as meeting point of the Swedish community in Madrid: the ground floor accommodated the Scandinavian Center and the rest of the building would be the Hotel Suecia, in whose dining room, the Bellman, they kept alive such traditions as the spring party or the smorgasbord lunches. An emblematic space in which personalities such as Ernest Hemingway, Ernesto Che Guevara, Julio Cortázar or the Royal Swedish Family stayed.