The Carlos de Amberes Foundation is a non-profitmaking private organisation registered on the Ministry for Culture, with the nº 192, which receives financial support from the Ramón Areces Foundation, the Ministry for Culture, the Community of Madrid’s Culture and Sport Council, the Madrid city council, Caja Burgos, Baratz and Fortis Bank.

 
THE OBJECTIVES OF THE FOUNDATION


The Carlos de Amberes Foundation, is the realization of the wish of a Flemish man whom donated all his fortune to the city of Madrid in order to create this institution, which 400 years thereafter it is fully active. Bolstered by a reorganisation of its original purpose (a hospital for pilgrims), the Carlos de Amberes Foundatio is ready to enter into the 21st Century, dedicated to safekeeping the historical ties among the territories that once belonged to the Spanish Crown in the 16th and 17th Centuries. The Foundation cooperates via all sorts of cultural, political and scientific initiatives with those countries -Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and northern France- in the adventure of building a common space: a united Europe.


EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

	Chairman	Miguel Ángel Aguilar
	Secretary	Daniel de Busturia
	Manageress	Catherine Geens

PATRONAGE


Among others the Foundation is composed of: His Majesty King Juan Carlos, the Belgian Ambassador to Madrid, the President of the Community of Madrid, the Mayor of Madrid, the Head of His Majesty's Office, the President of the Association of Friends of the "Foundation Carlos de Amberes" in Belgium, the Ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to Madrid, the Ambassador of the Kingdom of The Netherlands to Madrid, the President of the Council of State, the Director General of the Spanish Heritage at the Council of Europe, the President of the Spanish Olympic Committee, the Director of the Prado Museum and the Manager of the Royal Tapestry Factory and representatives of Spanish and Benelux institutions and companies.