A decade later Segundo de Lema added a staircase to the original design of Fernández, which led to the idea of Francisco de Cubas to give more importance to the emerging church of Almudena.
Ángel Fernández de los Ríos je leta 1868 predlagal oblikovanje velike zelene površine, ki bi potekala po vsem Plaza de Oriente, da bi dobili boljši pogled na kraljevo palačo.