The Royal Chapel of St. Anthony of La Florida in Madrid was commissioned by King Carlos IV. Felipe Fontana built the present structure from 1792 to 1798. Two earlier chapels from the 1730s stood on the same farmland. The article calls the style Neoclassical and names no materials or dimensions.
Francisco Goya painted the ceiling and dome frescoes in six months in 1798, assisted by Asensio Juliá. The main cupola shows Saint Anthony raising a man from the dead, set in contemporary Madrid rather than thirteenth-century Lisbon.
It was declared a national monument in 1905. Goya's remains were moved here from Bordeaux in 1919, and in 1928 an identical chapel was built alongside so the original could become a museum. The infobox lists Patrimonio Nacional as owner. Each June 13, young unmarried women pray to Saint Anthony here. The article gives no hours.
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