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With recommendations on what to see and do during your visit to the city. And information about famous landmarks and monuments, itineraries, tourist map, subway map and airport map. For your flight and accomodation needs check out the deals Expedia has to offer.
As a capital city Madrid has a huge range of things to do, places to eat and all the facilities tourists need. We have dedicated pages to help you plan each element of your trip, whether you are after culture, leisure, fine dining, nightlife or shopping. We also have recommendations on our accommodation pages or you can use websites like trivago to research and compare prices on hotels in Madrid and the surrounding regions.
Planing your trip to Madrid take care about booking your hotel to secure your trip and avoid troubles. We advise to book hotel in Madrid online on Booked.net without additional commissions, payments, etc.
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain, located in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula plain 646 meters above sea level and spans a total of 698 km² (233.3 sq mi).
The population of the city is roughly 3.2 million (2012); the entire population of the metropolitan area.
With recommendations on what to see and do during your visit to the city. And information about famous landmarks and monuments, itineraries, tourist map, subway map and airport map. For your flight and accomodation needs check out the deals Expedia has to offer.
As a capital city Madrid has a huge range of things to do, places to eat and all the facilities tourists need. We have dedicated pages to help you plan each element of your trip, whether you are after culture, leisure, fine dining, nightlife or shopping. We also have recommendations on our accommodation pages or you can use websites like trivago to research and compare prices on hotels in Madrid and the surrounding regions.
Planing your trip to Madrid take care about booking your hotel to secure your trip and avoid troubles. We advise to book hotel in Madrid online on Booked.net without additional commissions, payments, etc.
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain, located in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula plain 646 meters above sea level and spans a total of 698 km² (233.3 sq mi).
The population of the city is roughly 3.2 million (2012); the entire population of the metropolitan area.
Information As the capital city, a cosmopolitan city, a business center, seat of government, Spanish Parliament, and residence of the Spanish monarch, Madrid is also the political centre of Spain. Madrid is characterized by intense cultural and artistic activity and a very lively nightlife. According to legend the original name of the city was "Ursaria" ("land of bears" in Latin), due to the high number of these animals that were found in the adjacent forests, which, together with the arbutus ("madroño" in Spanish), have been the emblem (The Bear and the Strawberry Tree) of the city from the Middle Ages. |
Events Madrid goes wild each May in honour of the city's patron Saint, San Isidro, with a traditional round of partying, feasting and dancing in the streets that goes on for about 10 days around the designated saint's day, 15 May. And regular bullfights in "Las Ventas" Bullring. Arco is Europe's largest contemporary art fair and turns Madrid into the centre of the international art world during its five-day run each year. Festimad is a Spain's rock music event of the year, Festimad hosts well known and up and coming rock bands for a two-day party that attracts thousands of people from all over Spain. Held at the Butarque Leganes Stadium just outside Madrid. |
Attractions • Royal Palace • Royal Theater • Almudena Cathedral • Plaza Mayor Square • Prado Museum • Queen Sofía Museum • Gran Vía Avenue • Puerta del Sol • Thyssen Museum • Cibeles Square • Plaza España Square • Alcalá Gate • Santa Ana Square • Jerome Church • Santa Cruz Palace • Santiago Bernabéu • Archaeological Museum • Bullfighting Las Ventas • National Library • Descalzas Reales • Fine Arts Museum • Debod Temple • El Rastro Market • Buen Retiro Park • Casa de Campo Park • Sabatini Gardens • Caprice Park |
Spanish Drawings in the British Museum
The exhibition is the first time this British Museum collection of prints and drawings by Spanish artists, considered one of the most important in the world, has been shown outside the UK. Ranging from Renaissance art to paintings by Goya, the show comprises works by such artists as Velázquez, Murillo and Ribera, which will be on display at the Prado Museum till 19 June.
Dali
This exhibition offers a revaluation of Salvador Dalí the thinker, writer and creator of a unique view of reality. The show focuses on his surrealistic period, putting special emphasis on the paranoiac-critical method developed by the artist as a mechanism for the transformation and subversion of reality. At the Reina Sofia Museum till 2 September.
