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The fronton Beti Jai was inaugurated in 1894, lived two decades of splendor and closed its doors in 1919 due to the decline of pelota. It then fell into oblivion: it was a workshop, a warehouse, a garage and even a Harley Davidson dealership. Over time, the walls cracked, the paint peeled, and weeds and even trees sprouted from the ground. But now this temple of the ball shines again in one of Madrid’s most expensive neighborhoods.
«The building has been declared a sports facility, so the uses must be, by law, sports and cultural,» says Igor Gonzalez. The platform wants the essence of what it was in its day to be maintained and not to be perverted. Although, obviously, it will be difficult to recover the atmosphere of the ball that was experienced at the beginning of the last century.

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The work of the architect Joaquín de Rucoba and Octavio de Toledo, the Beti Jai is a mixture of eclectic and neo-Mudejar style. Construction began in 1893 with innovative techniques and materials for the time. It was inaugurated in May 1894 and until 1918 it functioned as a fronton; after 1919 it was used for various purposes such as car repair shop, police station, jail, plaster and papier-mâché workshop, among others.
The restoration work was completed last January and during the process a thorough research work has been carried out (using newspapers of the time, library documents, collaboration with associations and experts) so that the ‘rebirth’ of the Beti Jai would be as faithful to its original state as possible.    In this process, the architects in charge discovered a neo-Mudejar arch in good condition behind a partition wall, and some very innovative original flat tiles for the time, which were in a bedroom.
In the renovation of the Beti Jai, the priority was to maintain practically all of the elements, replacing only those which, due to corrosion, were irrecoverable. The municipal investment amounted to 4.9 million euros.

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Situado en la calle Marqués de Riscal, 7, el edificio (de estilo neomudéjar) data de 1893 y fue inaugurado en 1894[1][2] El último partido disputado en el frontón se jugó en 1919, tras lo cual se utilizó para diversos fines.
El frontón se empezó a construir en 1893, con un presupuesto aproximado de 500.000 pesetas. Se debe a un diseño del arquitecto Joaquín Rucoba (1844-1919), autor de la Plaza de toros de La Malagueta, del Mercado de Atarazanas y del parque de Málaga, y del Ayuntamiento de Bilbao, entre otras obras. Fue la cuarta infraestructura de estas características abiertas en Madrid a finales del siglo XIX, en una época en la que el deporte de la pelota vasca alcanzó una notable popularidad en la capital española. Le precedieron, por este orden, los frontones Jai Alai (1891), Fiesta Alegre y Euskal Jai.
En el año 2010 el Ayuntamiento de Madrid inició un proceso de expropiación, finalizado en el año 2015, y pagando por él la cantidad de 7 millones de euros e inició una amplia restauración, que finalizó en 2019[8].

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In 1893 the Sociedad Arana, Unibaso y Cía. asked the City Council for a license to construct a building to be used as a regulation fronton court for the «modern pelota game», with a court width of 11 m and a length of 67 m. The three floors of the building facing Marqués de Riscal are destined for the main hall and rest rooms, administration offices, accounting offices and box office, a room for the concierge and independent stairwells for boxes and stalls, chairs and bleachers, while the three floors of the rear section have two more stairwells and service areas.
Between the two pavilions there is a neo-Mudejar style grandstand in which the interesting iron work of the galleries stands out, although the façade facing the street follows the eclectic style of Second Empire inspiration recurrent in Rucoba’s work.