Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #5 in Madrid, Spain
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Experience Madrid in Spain in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Activities in MadridIndividual Sights in MadridSight 1: Fuente de la Sardana
The Sardana fountain is located in the gardens of the Retiro in Madrid (Spain) at the Glorieta de la Sardana. The relief of the fountain shows a group of figures dancing a Catalan sardana.
Sight 2: Monument to Alfonso XII
The Monument to Alfonso XII is located in Buen Retiro Park, Madrid, Spain. The monument is situated on the east edge of an artificial lake near the center of the park.
Sight 3: Fuente de los Galápagos
The Galapagos Fountain or Isabel II Fountain is a monumental fountain located in the Retiro Park in the Spanish city of Madrid. Inaugurated in 1832, it was originally in the San Luis network, on Gran Vía. It was nourished by the journey of the Castellana.
Sight 4: Cuartel General de la Armada
The Navy Headquarters is a set of bodies to assist the Admiral Chief of Staff in the exercise of command of the Spanish Navy. It is based in Madrid.
Sight 5: Naval Museum of Madrid
The Naval Museum is a naval museum in Madrid, Spain, devoted to the history of the Spanish Navy since the Catholic Monarchs, in the 15th century, up to the present. It is one of the National Museums of Spain and it is attached to the Ministry of Defence.
Sight 6: Plaza de la Lealtad
Plaza de la Lealtad is a square in Madrid, Spain, located on the Paseo del Prado, where the Palacio de la Bolsa (which houses the Madrid Stock Exchange) and the Ritz Hotel are located.
Sight 7: Fuente de Apolo
The Fountain of Apollo, also called the Fountain of the Four Seasons, is a monumental fountain in Madrid, Spain, located on the Paseo del Prado, the work of Manuel Álvarez. It occupies the centre of what was called the Prado Room, as part of the urban reform sponsored by King Charles III in the eighteenth century. It is part of the sculptural ensemble designed by Ventura Rodríguez for the Paseo, together with that of Cibeles and Neptune. The three fountains are considered masterpieces of Spanish Neoclassicism.
Sight 8: Estatua a Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes or the Statue of Cervantes is an instance of public art in Madrid, Spain. Erected in 1835, it is dedicated to Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It lies on the Plaza de las Cortes, in front of the Congress of Deputies.
Sight 9: Estatua Federico García Lorca
Federico García Lorca or the Monument to Federico García Lorca is an instance of public art in Madrid, Spain. Located at the Plaza de Santa Ana, in front of the Teatro Español, it consists of a bronze statue of the aforementioned poet and playwright.
Sight 10: Teatro Reina Victoria
The Teatro Reina Victoria is a theatre in Madrid, Spain. It was inaugurated on June 10, 1916, according to a project by the architect José Espelius, with a façade of stained glass windows by Maumejean and tiles by Talavera, and capacity in the room for more than six hundred spectators. During the Second Republic it was simply called Victoria and in October 1936 it was renamed after the playwright Joaquín Dicenta. After the Spanish Civil War it recovered its royal name.
Sight 11: Fuente de Pontejos
The Fuente de Pontejos, or fountain of the Plaza de Pontejos is a fountain in the city of Madrid located in the aforementioned square and dedicated to Joaquín Vizcaíno known as the widowed Marquis of Pontejos, mayor of the Villa, founder of the first savings bank in Spain, co-founder of the Ateneo de Madrid and the asylum of San Bernardino.
Sight 12: Teatro Albéniz
Teatro Albéniz is a theatre in Madrid, Spain. Located in the Centro district at No. 11 Calle de la Paz, it opened in the 1940s. It initially featured opera and ballet, and later also zarzuela. It had a seating capacity of 1,000 seats in 1945. After various legal problems, Teatro Albéniz closed in 2009 but after a long legal battle led by lawyers Beltrán Gambier and Eva Aladro from “Plataforma Salvar el Teatro Albéniz”, the 17 of November 2022 it reopened its doors after a careful renovation by UMusic Hotels, with the premiere of the musical production “Company”, of Stephen Sondheim and directed by Antonio Banderas. The building also holds a hotel.
Sight 13: Fuente de Orfeo
The fountain of Orpheus, popular name of what was also called fountain of the Plaza de Santa Cruz, fountain of the Plaza de la Provincia, fountain of the Court Prison or fountain of the Dog, was a fountain of the Madrid of the Austrias, demolished in 1869, and of which only the white marble sculpture of Orpheus that topped it is preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Madrid. Since 1998, there has been a fountain in the Plaza de la Provincia in the Spanish capital made up of a set of remains of fountains made throughout the nineteenth century and topped by a replica of the original Orpheus.
Sight 14: Casa de la Panadería
The Casa de la Panadería is a municipal and cultural building on the north side of the Plaza Mayor in Madrid. It is four stories high, the ground floor comprising porticos and the top floor in the form of an attic, with its sides crowned by angular towers.
Sight 15: Álvaro de Bazán
The Monument to Álvaro de Bazán is an instance of public art in Madrid, Spain. Located at the Plaza de la Villa, it consists of a bronze sculpture designed by Mariano Benlliure representing Álvaro de Bazán—a noted 16th century Admiral of the Spanish Navy once described by Cervantes as "father of soldiers, lightning of war, fortunate and never defeated captain"— put on top of a stone pedestal.
Sight 16: Iglesia de San Pedro el Viejo
The name Church of San Pedro el Viejo is the name of several religious buildings in honor of San Pedro.Iglesia de San Pedro el Viejo, a Catholic church in the town of Almería, Almería. Church of San Pedro el Viejo, a Roman Catholic church in the town of Jaca, Huesca Church of San Pedro el Viejo, a Roman Catholic church in Madrid, Madrid Church of San Pedro el Viejo, a Roman Catholic church in Huesca, Huesca
Sight 17: Jardín del Príncipe de Anglona
The Príncipe de Anglona garden is located in the Plaza de la Paja, in the area known as Madrid de los Austrias, specifically in the neighborhood of La Latina, one of the main tourist centers of this Spanish city. It is one of the few examples of eighteenth-century noble gardens that are preserved in the capital. It belongs to the Madrid City Council, which is responsible for its management, maintenance and conservation.
Sight 18: Capilla de Nuestra Señora y de san Juan de Letrán
The Bishop's Chapel is a chapel, located in Madrid, Spain, which was built in the 16th century. It is named after Gutierre de Vargas Carvajal, Bishop of Plasencia, who is buried there.
Sight 19: Parroquia Virgen de la Paloma y San Pedro el Real
The church of La Paloma is the popular name given to the church of the parish of San Pedro el Real, a Catholic temple located in the Spanish city of Madrid, on Calle de la Paloma. It is part of the religious celebrations of the verbena de la Paloma.
Sight 20: Puerta de Toledo
The Puerta de Toledo is a gate located in Madrid, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1996. Construction began in 1812, but was not completed until 1827.
Sight 21: Madrid Río
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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.
Sight 22: Teatro Valle-Inclán
The Teatro Valle-Inclán is a theatre in Madrid, Spain. Together with Teatro María Guerrero, it is the home of the Spanish Centro Dramático Nacional. It is located at plaza de Lavapiés, in the city centre, and opened in February 2006.
Sight 23: Teatro Nuevo Apolo
Teatro Nuevo Apolo is an entertainment venue in Madrid, Spain. It is located in the Plaza de Tirso de Molina. The owners of the Teatro Apolo that existed on calle de Alcalá until its closure in 1929 decided to build a new venue, initially named Teatro Progreso, in the Plaza del Progreso. The theatre opened on December 10, 1932 with the zarzuela, La verbena de la Paloma. It was converted to a film venue, the Cine Progreso, before its rededication to theatrical exhibitions and music entertainment of various genres, as well as dance and comedy.
Sight 24: Monumento en honor a los abogados de Atocha
The 1977 Atocha massacre was an attack by right-wing extremists in the center of Madrid on 24 January 1977, which saw the assassination of five labor activists from the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) and the workers' federation Comisiones Obreras (CC.OO). The act occurred within the wider context of far-right reaction to Spain's transition to constitutional democracy following the death of dictator Francisco Franco. Intended to provoke a violent left-wing response that would provide legitimacy for a subsequent right-wing counter coup d'état, the massacre had an immediate opposite effect, generating mass popular revulsion of the far-right and accelerating the legalization of the long-banned Communist Party.
Sight 25: Teatro Monumental
The Teatro Monumental is a concert hall in Madrid. The theatre, designed by Teodoro Anasagasti Algan, was built between 1922 and 1923 as a movie theatre and later was transformed to house concerts of different genres, from pop to classical, and jazz to folk.
Sight 26: Casa de Cervantes
The Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes lived in Madrid in different houses. It is known that in 1567 he was a resident of this city as he attended the classes of the Estudio de la Villa whose director was at that time the master Juan López de Hoyos.
Sight 27: Casa Museo Lope de Vega
The House-Museum of Lope de Vega is a writer's house museum in the former home of the "golden age" writer Lope de Vega, located in Madrid, Spain.
Sight 28: Basílica de Jesús de Medinaceli
The Basilica of Jesus de Medinaceli or the full name in Spanish: Basílica de Nuestro Padre Jesús de Medinaceli is a Roman Catholic church, specifically a basilica, located in central Madrid.
Sight 29: Cuatro Fuentes
The Four Fountains, also known as Las Fuentecillas, are located at the confluence of Plaza de Murillo with Paseo del Prado, in the area known as Madrid de los Borbones, one of the main tourist centers of this Spanish city. Two are located on the pavement of the Prado Museum and the other two are located facing each other in the pedestrian median of the Paseo del Prado, the four forming an imaginary square, which is crossed by one of the roads of this avenue, reserved for road traffic.
Sight 30: Church of Saint Jerome the Royal
The old monastery of San Jerónimo el Real, popularly known as "Los Jerónimos", was one of the most important monasteries in Madrid, originally ruled by the Order of San Jerónimo. Next to it was the so-called Royal Room, later expanded as the Buen Retiro Palace in the times of Philip IV.
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