A room is a place intended for rest or accommodation . The concept can refer to a particular room or environment , or to the building that is used as accommodation .
For example: “Thank you for dinner, now I'm going to retire to my room to rest,” “Where will we find a room in this town? “There is no one on the street and all the shops are closed?” , “The woman showed her disagreement with the room assigned to her.”
Frequently, the notion is used in the plural to name the private rooms of a castle , a palace or other similar construction that only the monarch can use: “The king, before retiring to his chambers, asked that no one disturb him,” “His majesty is resting in his chambers,” “The princess requested that food be served in her chambers since she is not feeling well.”
There are several expressions that are formed with the word room. The court chamber , to cite one case, is the residence that was granted to the monarch's servants. The chamber board , on the other hand, was the entity that had the function of distributing and assigning the rooms used by the servants of a palace .
In the same way, we cannot ignore at a historical level what is known as room royalty. Under this name is a tax that existed in the Middle Ages and which establishes that there was the obligation to give up part of the home in order to temporarily accommodate the entourage that accompanied a king, the military and even court officials.
However, this tax was extended for a long time, since when Philip II came to the throne and decided that Madrid was going to be the capital of the court, he established it as such.
However, there is always the mischief of the human being to deal with situations. Hence arose what were called houses of malice, so called because they were built in such a way that the tax could not be applied there. Basically they were constructions that apparently only had one floor, when in reality they had more spaces, but these were hidden. Thus it was believed that they were really small homes.
In the 19th century, the aforementioned tax was put to an end, meaning that many houses had to have a more modest appearance. Thus, historians recognize that, for example, in the Barrio de las Letras in Madrid there were numerous homes that on their façade seemed to only have one floor when in reality, inside, this was not the case. Among them it seems to be that of Lope de Vega himself.
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