The Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) is a cultural institution based in MadridCommunity of MadridSpain. It’s headquarters is the Sede de la Real Academia Española.

This and twenty-three other Spanish language academies from each of the countries where Spanish is spoken make up the Association of Spanish Language Academies (ASALE).

It is affiliated with national language academies in 22 other Hispanophone nations through the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language.

It is dedicated to linguistic regularization through the promulgation of regulations aimed at promoting linguistic unity within the various territories that make up the Spanish-speaking world and guaranteeing a common standard, in accordance with its founding statutes: “to ensure that the changes it experiences […] do not break the essential unity that it maintains throughout the Hispanic world.”

It was founded in 1713 on the initiative of the enlightened Juan Manuel Fernández Pacheco, VIII Duke of Escalona and Marquis of Villena, imitating the French Academy. The following year, Philip V of Spain approved its constitution and placed it under his protection.​ In 1715, the Academy approved its first statutes.

The linguistic guidelines it proposes are collected in various works. The priority ones are the Dictionary of the Spanish Language, abbreviated DLE (art. 2 of its statutes), periodically published twenty-three times from 1780 to today; and the grammar (4th), published between 2009 and 2011.

​It carries out its functions at the main headquarters, inaugurated in 1894, at Calle Felipe IV, 4, in the Los Jerónimos neighborhood, and at the Study Center of the Royal Spanish Academy and the ASALE, at Calle de Serrano 187-189, in 2007, next to the Museo del Prado

Sede de la Real Academia Española

Sede de la Real Academia Española is a building with the status of Cultural Interest since 1998, located at Calle Felipe IV, number 4. It was inaugurated on April 1, 1894.

The building has been described as “an emblematic work in Madrid architecture due to its clear inspiration in Greek architecture, but with an eclectic interpretation.” Its architect, the Madrid native Miguel Aguado de la Sierra (1842-1896), focused his career more on teaching and architectural theory, so his architectural production was rather scarce. In addition to this headquarters, he built the Pantheon of Don Adelardo López de Ayala and the Palace of the Duke of Elduayen.

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