a walk around madrid

A WALK AROUND MADRID

TTA Project 2012 -2013

Where is Madrid?

It’s nearly in the centre of Spain. It was builtaround the Manzanares river.

What can we see in

Madrid?

FlagCoat of arms

ROYAL PALACE

Madrid's Royal Palace was built in the 18th century, by order of Philip V. The Sabatini and Campo del Moro Gardens are among the Palace’s attractions. Its artistic style is Neo-classical.

ALMUDENA CATHEDRAL

Almudena Cathedral is the cathedral of Madrid. Dating from the late 19th and 20th centuries. It was completed in 1993 and consecrated in person by Pope John Paul II that same year. It’s in Neo-Gothic and Neoclassical style.

PLAZA MAYOR – MAIN SQUARE

The Plaza Mayor is Madrid's main square. It is located right in the centre of the city.

CIBELES FOUNTAIN The monumental CibelesFountain has become a Madrid icon. It shows Cybele, the Greek goddess of fertility and nature.

DEBOD TEMPLEThe Egyptian government donated this temple to the Spanish people in 1968.

GRAN VIA

Madrid’s Gran Via district is a fashionable boulevard lined with modern Art Deco buildings, upscale shops and an impressive theatre district that rivals Broadway for its varied international productions.

EL RETIRO PARK

Many local families spend their Sunday afternoons here, renting a horse-drawn carriage or paddling a rowboat in the pond. In the 17th century only the royal family was allowed to use it privately, hosting pageants, bullfights, and mock naval battles. Only a century later did it open to the public, but even then visitors had to be formally dressed to enter.

PUERTA DE ALCALA – ALCALA DOOR

In 1764 King Carlos III commissioned the Italian architect Sabatini to construct a large gate. Sabatini's design called for a neoclassical granite gate with three large archways and two smaller, rectangular passageways.

LA PUERTA DEL SOL

The Puerta del Sol is one of the bestknown and busiest places in Madrid. This is the centre of the radial network of Spanish roads.

THE PRADO MUSEUM The Prado Museum is Madrid's top cultural sight, and one of the world's greatest art galleries. There are works of Velázquez, Goya, Raphael, Rubens, and Bosch is housed in an 18th-century Neo-Classical building that opened as a museum in 1819.

REINA SOFIA MUSEUM

Madrid's 18th century hospital was beautifully remodelled and converted into a museum in 1992. It’s Spain's national museum of 20th century art

Picasso’s Guernica

THYSSEN MUSEUM

This museum is one the world's most important private art collection. Assembled by Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza it illustrates the history of Western art from the primitive Flemish and Italian painters, to 20th century Pop Art.