Madrid Travel Guide: Things to Do, Opening Hours, Itineraries

Royal Botanic Garden Madrid: Opening Hours, Tickets and Visit

The Royal Botanic Garden (Real Jardín Botánico), founded in 1755 and moved by Charles III next to...

La Latina

South of the Plaza Mayor, La Latina is one of Madrid's oldest neighbourhoods: most of its narrow,...

Lavapiés

South-east of the historic centre, Lavapiés grew up in the Middle Ages outside the city walls and...

Madrid Río: a riverside walk along the Manzanares

Madrid Río is the linear park laid out along the banks of the Manzanares after the M-30 ring road...

El Escorial Monastery

About 45 km northwest of Madrid, at the foot of the Sierra de Guadarrama, the Royal Monastery of ...

Descalzas Reales Monastery: guided tour, opening hours and tickets

The Monastery of the Descalzas Reales stands on Plaza de las Descalzas, a five-minute walk from t...

National Archaeological Museum of Madrid

The National Archaeological Museum (MAN), on Calle Serrano, traces the history of the Iberian Pen...

Cerralbo Museum Madrid: an intact aristocratic palace, hours, prices and free entry

The Cerralbo Museum fills the palace that the 17th Marquis of Cerralbo, Enrique de Aguilera y Gam...

Madrid Wax Museum

The Madrid Wax Museum (Museo de Cera) stands on the Paseo de Recoletos, on the edge of Plaza de C...

Museum of the Americas in Madrid: Quimbaya Treasure, Maya codex, opening hours and tickets

The Museum of the Americas (Museo de América) brings together more than 25,000 objects from the A...

National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid

The National Museum of Natural Sciences (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, MNCN) descends fro...

Museum of Romanticism Madrid: a 19th-century town house, opening hours, tickets and garden café

The National Museum of Romanticism (Museo Nacional del Romanticismo) fills a neoclassical palace ...

Lázaro Galdiano Museum

The Lázaro Galdiano Museum occupies Parque Florido, the mansion that publisher and collector José...

Sorolla Museum

The Sorolla Museum occupies the house that the Valencian painter Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923) had ...

Christmas in Madrid: Plaza Mayor market, Christmas lights and New Year's Eve at Puerta del Sol

In Madrid, the festive season runs from late November to 6 January: the Plaza Mayor Christmas mar...

Cibeles Palace Madrid: viewpoint, CentroCentro and Cibeles Fountain

The Cibeles Palace, the former Palace of Communications built for the Spanish postal service, dom...

Royal Palace of Aranjuez: gardens and a day trip from Madrid

Some fifty kilometres south of Madrid, on the banks of the Tagus, the Royal Palace of Aranjuez wa...

Puerta de Alcalá Madrid: history, photos and how to get there

The Puerta de Alcalá, a neoclassical granite triumphal arch commissioned by King Charles III from...

Salamanca District

North-east of Retiro Park, the Salamanca district is Madrid's most elegant area and its main addr...

Real Academia de San Fernando Madrid: Goya museum, hours and tickets

The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, founded in 1752, occupies the Goyeneche Palace...

Segovia Day Trip from Madrid: Aqueduct, Alcázar and Train

Segovia, in Castile and León, is an easy day trip from Madrid: the AVANT train links Chamartín st...

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