Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #8 in Madrid, Spain
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11.3 km
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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: Monumento a Dante
The Dante Monument is an urban monument in Madrid, Spain that honors the memory of the Italian writer Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) and is located in Dante's Gate in the Buen Retiro Gardens. It is a bronze mural made by the Italian artist Angelo Biancini (1911-1988) in 1968 and installed in May 1969.
Sight 2: Fuente del Ángel Caído
The Fuente del Ángel Caído is a fountain located in the Buen Retiro Park in Madrid, Spain.
Sight 3: Benito Pérez Galdós
Galdós or the Monument to Galdós is a sculpture in Madrid, Spain. A work by Victorio Macho, it is dedicated to Benito Pérez Galdós. It lies on the southern part of El Retiro.
Sight 4: Ramón de Campoamor
The monument to Campoamor located in Madrid is located in the Retiro Park, on Avenida de Fernán Núñez.
Sight 5: Crystal Palace
The Palacio de Cristal is a 19th-century conservatory located in the Buen Retiro Park in Madrid, Spain. It is currently used for art exhibitions.
Sight 6: Monumento a Santiago Ramón y Cajal
The Cajal Monument is a commemorative sculpture located in the Retiro Park in Madrid, Spain. The work of the sculptor Victorio Macho, it was inaugurated in 1926. It is dedicated to Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
Sight 7: Fuente de la Alcachofa
The Artichoke Fountain is a monumental fountain in Madrid (Spain) built in the last third of the eighteenth century and installed in front of the old Atocha Gate, from where it passed in 1880 to the Buen Retiro Gardens. There is also a bronze replica in Madrid that was placed in the Atocha roundabout in 1986.
Sight 8: Monumento a Jacinto Benavente
The monument to Jacinto Benavente is a monument located in the city of Madrid, the work of the sculptor Victorio Macho and reminds the playwright Jacinto Benavente. It is located in the Retiro Park.
Sight 9: Real Observatorio de Madrid
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.
Sight 10: Monumento a Pío Baroja
The monument to Pío Baroja is a Spanish sculpture dedicated to the writer Pío Baroja, which is located at the end of the Cuesta de Moyano, next to the intersection with Alfonso XII Street in Madrid. It is the work of the sculptor Federico Coullaut-Valera.
Sight 11: Palacio de Fomento
The Palace of Fomento, also known as the Ministry of Agriculture Building, is a nineteenth-century office building in Madrid, Spain. Designed by Ricardo Velázquez Bosco, and built between 1893 and 1897, it is on a prominent site opposite Atocha railway station.
Sight 12: Monumento a Claudio Moyano
The Monument to Claudio Moyano is an instance of public art in Madrid, Spain. Designed by Agustín Querol and located at the Plaza del Emperador Carlos V, it consists of a bronze statue of Claudio Moyano, a 19th century statesman noted for the authorship of the 1857 Law of Education, put on top of a tall stone pedestal.
Sight 13: Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid
Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid is an 8 hectares botanical garden in Madrid (Spain). The public entrance is located at Plaza de Murillo, next to the Prado Museum.
Sight 14: CaixaForum Madrid
CaixaForum Madrid is a cultural center in Madrid, Spain. Located in Paseo del Prado in a former power station, it is owned by the not-for-profit banking foundation "la Caixa". The art center opened its doors in 2008 and it hosts temporary art exhibitions and cultural events.
Sight 15: Espacio Cultural Serrería Belga
The Serrería Belga is an old industrial building in Madrid, located between Calle de la Alameda, Calle Cenicero and Plaza de las Letras, in the Barrio de las Letras. It consisted of two warehouses – one for sawmills, the other for warehouses and dryers – and was owned by the company Sociedad Belga de los Pinares de El Paular, which built it in 1925 according to a project by the architect Manuel Álvarez Naya. The Serrería Belga maintained its activity until the end of the 1970s, and was acquired in 2000 by the Madrid City Council to use the building for cultural purposes. In 2007, he commissioned its rehabilitation and refurbishment by the architects María Langarita Sánchez and Víctor Navarro Ríos. The works were completed in 2013, when the building became the headquarters of Medialab-Prado.
Sight 16: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
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
Sight 17: King's Monasterio de Santa Isabel
The Royal Monastery of Santa Isabel is a monastery located in Madrid, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1995.
Sight 18: Iglesia de San Lorenzo
The Church of San Lorenzo is a Catholic church in the Spanish city of Madrid, located at 2 Calle del Doctor Piga, in the Lavapiés neighborhood. It is the center of the celebrations of the verbena de San Lorenzo in the neighborhood.
Sight 19: El Teatro del Barrio
The Teatro del Barrio is a theatre and cultural space located in the Lavapiés neighbourhood of the city of Madrid. Created in December 2013, it is also an artistic, political and cultural platform.
Sight 20: 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 21: Sala Mirador
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.
Sight 22: Circo Price
The Circo Price, also known as El Price, is a 2,142-seat concert venue and former circus in Madrid.
Sight 23: La Casa Encendida
La Casa Encendida is a social and cultural centre in central Madrid. It began operations in December 2002.
Sight 24: Galerías Piquer
The Piquer Galleries is a group of antique shops located on Ribera de Curtidores street where the Madrid market called: Rastro is held every Sunday and holiday. The center was designed by the Spanish architect José de Azpiroz y Azpiroz in 1950. The initial name was: Galerías Isla de Cuba, but the popularity of the inauguration by the mayor José Moreno Torres in the company of the Spanish actress and tonadillera Concha Piquer made Galerías Piquer the one that remained in the popular name.
Sight 25: Plaza del Campillo del Mundo Nuevo
The Plaza del Campillo del Mundo Nuevo is an irregular urban space located in the Embajadores neighborhood of Madrid (Spain), very close to the Puerta de Toledo. The streets of Arganzuela, Mira el Río Baja, Carlos Arniches and Mira el Sol flow into it to the north, being limited to the south by the Ronda de Toledo. Historically, it can be considered the southern border of the Rastro market.
Sight 26: Jardín del Rastro
The Madrid gas factory was an industrial facility for the production of gas for lighting that existed in the capital of Spain, in the current district of Arganzuela, between the mid-nineteenth century and the 1960s.
Sight 27: 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 28: Plaza de Peñuelas
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.
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