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Plaza Mayor

sight Plaza Mayor

Small market square in Madrid with a wide variety of bars, restaurants and shops. The Plaza Mayor is an impressive structure, which is located near Puerta del Sol. It was built in the 15th century to o...

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26 votes
Museo Nacional del Prado

museum / gallery Museo Nacional del Prado

One of the world's most important picture galleries. The architect Juan de Villanueva began to construct the Prado in a neoclassical style in 1785. Works from the 12th century through to the middle of ...

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24 votes
Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

museum / gallery Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

An imposing setting for contemporary art featuring Picasso's "Guernica". One of the most important collections of contemporary, mainly Spanish art from the start of the 20th century through to the pres...

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13 votes
Fuente de la Cibeles

sight Fuente de la Cibeles

The symbolic emblem of Madrid - the traffic-plagued marble fountain of the goddess of fertility. The plaza is a crossroads where the twelve-lane Calle de Alcalá meets the equally wide Paseo de Recoleto...

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9 votes
Palacio Real

sight Palacio Real

A royal residence. In the mid-18th century, Philipp V wanted Italian architects to build a new royal palace and bring some of the glamour of Versailles to Madrid - there is a lavish baroque splendour a...

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9 votes
Puerta del Sol (Gate of the Sun)

sight Puerta del Sol (Gate of the Sun)

While visiting Madrid, it is likely that you will be staying in the vicinity of Peurta del Sol. While visiting Madrid it is quiet likely that you will be staying in the vicinity of Puerta del Sol. Apar...

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7 votes
Madrid de los Austrias/La Latina

sightseeing tour Madrid de los Austrias/La Latina

The charming Old Town district. This district owes its unofficial name to the Habsburgs who with Charles V acceded to the Spanish throne in the 16th century before they were replaced at the start of th...

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7 votes
Retiro

sight Retiro

There is always lots going on in Madrid's most famous park. A crisp clear spring sky hovers over Madrid - time to go for a stroll with the whole family through Retiro. The chestnut trees have all their...

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6 votes
Museo Thyssen Bornemisza

museum / gallery Museo Thyssen Bornemisza

An addition to the treasures housed at Prado with old Italian and Flemish masters and more modern artists such as German expressionist painters. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum at Palacio Villahermosa co...

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5 votes
Monastery and Site of the Escorial, Madrid

sight Monastery and Site of the Escorial, Madrid

The center of political power during the last years of Philip II's reign. . Built at the end of the 16th century on a plan in the form of a grill, the instrument of the martyrdom of St Lawrence, the Esc...

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4 votes
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