Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #15 in Madrid, Spain

The Obelisk of the Arganzuela is located in the Madrid Río Park. Its original location was the current Emilio Castelar roundabout, on the Paseo de la Castellana, which is why it was known as the obelisk of the Castellana or obelisk of the Fuente Castellana – a name that it still retains for the purposes of heritage conservation. It was built by King Ferdinand VII, shortly before his death, in order to celebrate the birth of his daughter, the future Queen Isabel II. The works began under the regency of María Cristina de Borbón, in 1833.

Wikipedia: Obelisco de la Arganzuela (ES)

Madrid Río is an urban park in the Spanish capital Madrid, built along an urban stretch of the Manzanares River following the burial of the M-30 bypass road in this area. It is the result of a project led by the architect Ginés Garrido, who won the international ideas competition organised by the Madrid City Council in 2005 to redevelop the area.

Wikipedia: Madrid Río (EN)

The Plaza de Peñuelas is a large landscaped space in the Arganzuela neighbourhood (Madrid), between Calle de la Arquitectura, Calle del Labrador and Paseo de Juan Antonio Vallejo Nájera Botas, (in the section that in the nineteenth century was Calle del Laurel. Like other urban elements with the same name in what was the neighbourhood of Las Peñuelas or neighbourhood of Peñuelas, they took the place name of the so-called Peñuela de Santa Isabel, a small promontory geologically related to the neighbouring Peñón, next to the Campillo del Mundo Nuevo. In this place there was a fountain with a basin that was supplied with water from the Bajo Abroñigal journey. The writer Benito Pérez Galdós mentions the square in his novel La desheredada.

Wikipedia: Plaza de las Peñuelas (ES)

The Circo Price, also known as El Price, is a 2,142-seat concert venue and former circus in Madrid.

Wikipedia: Circo Price (EN)

The Sala Mirador was the first permanent centre in Madrid dedicated to puppet theatre, created by Carmen Heymann and Servando Carballar in 1984. Originally coordinated by the collective La Linterna Mágica, it merged space with the School of Interpretation created in 1979 by Cristina Rota, the germ of the later Center for New Creators, a pedagogical project that relaunched the name of the room within the theatrical field.

Wikipedia: Sala Mirador (ES), Website

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía is Spain's national museum of 20th-century art. The museum was officially inaugurated on September 10, 1992, and is named for Queen Sofía. It is located in Madrid, near the Atocha train and metro stations, at the southern end of the so-called Golden Triangle of Art.

Wikipedia: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (EN), Website

The Royal Observatory of Madrid is a historic observatory situated on a small hill next to the Buen Retiro Park in Madrid, Spain. It was founded in 1790 and has been engaged in continuous scientific activity since then. It is currently the seat of the Spanish National Observatory and an active research group in geophysics, both belonging to the National Geographic Institute.

Wikipedia: Royal Observatory of Madrid (EN)