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The Market of San Miguel is a covered market located in Madrid, Spain. Originally built in 1916, it was purchased by private investors in 2003 who renovated the iron structure and reopened it in 2009.
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
3. Jaime I El Conquistador, Rey de Aragón
James I the Conqueror was King of Aragon, Count of Barcelona and Lord of Montpellier from 1213 to 1276; King of Majorca from 1231 to 1276; and Valencia from 1238 to 1276. His long reign of 62 years is not only the longest of any Iberian monarch, but one of the longest monarchical reigns in history, ahead of Hirohito but remaining behind Queen Victoria and Ferdinand III of Naples and Sicily. He saw the expansion of the Crown of Aragon in three directions: Languedoc to the north, the Balearic Islands to the southeast, and Valencia to the south. By a treaty with Louis IX of France, he achieved the renunciation of any possible claim of French suzerainty over the County of Barcelona and the other Catalan counties, while he renounced northward expansion and taking back the once Catalan territories in Occitania and vassal counties loyal to the County of Barcelona, lands that were lost by his father Peter II of Aragon in the Battle of Muret during the Albigensian Crusade and annexed by the Kingdom of France, and then decided to turn south. His great part in the Reconquista was similar in Mediterranean Spain to that of his contemporary Ferdinand III of Castile in Andalusia. One of the main reasons for this formal renunciation of most of the once Catalan territories in Languedoc and Occitania and any expansion into them is the fact that he was raised by the Knights Templar crusaders, who had defeated his father fighting for the Pope alongside the French, so it was effectively forbidden for him to try to maintain the traditional influence of the Count of Barcelona that previously existed in Occitania and Languedoc.
4. Teatro Alfil
The Alfil Theater is a place located in the University neighborhood, in the Centro District (Madrid). The theater is a building designed by the architect José Aspiontoz that is located on the street of the fish, founded in 1948 initially as a morning session cinema, called Cine Fish. In 1971 it became a small theater. The company was owned by the brothers Luis and José García Ramos. In January 1993, an order of closing of the premises was issued by Councilor Ángel Matanzo, order that was suspended by Mayor José María Álvarez del Manzano, when the company Yllana took care of the situation. The theater has managed to subsist in the first decade of the 21st century thanks to the support of this company. In 2006 the theater suffered an attack by a incendiary bomb, which was deactivated before its explosion, during a work by actor Leo Bassi.
5. Plaza de Peñuelas
The Plaza de Peñuelas is a wide landscaped space of the Arganzuela neighborhood (Madrid), between the street of architecture, the street of the farmer and the walk of Juan Antonio Vallejo Nájera Boots, (in the section that in the 19th century was street of the street Laurel. Like other urban elements with the same name in which the neighborhood of the Peñuelas or neighborhood of Peñuelas was, they took the place name of the so -called Peñuela de Santa Isabel, a small geologically related promontory related to the neighbor Peñón, next to the Campillo of the New World . In this place there was a source with a pylon that was supplied with waters from the journey of the Bajo Abroñigal. The writer Benito Pérez Galdós mentions the square in his novel The disinherited.
6. Placa en honor a los abogados de Atocha
The 1977 Atocha massacre was an attack by right-wing extremists in the center of Madrid on January 24, 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.
7. Monumento a Juan Montalvo
Juan María Montalvo Fiallos was an Ecuadorian essayist and novelist. His writing was strongly marked by anti-clericalism and opposition to presidents Gabriel García Moreno and Ignacio de Veintemilla. He was the publisher of the magazine El Cosmopolita. One of his best-known books is Las Catilinarias, published in 1880. His essays include Siete tratados (1882) and Geometría Moral. He also wrote a sequel to Don Quixote de la Mancha, called Capítulos que se le olvidaron a Cervantes. He was admired by writers, essayists, intellectuals such as Jorge Luis Borges and Miguel de Unamuno. He died in Paris in 1889. His body was embalmed and is exhibited in a mausoleum in his hometown of Ambato.
8. Monumento a Miguel Hernández
Miguel Hernández Gilabert was a 20th-century Spanish-language poet and playwright associated with the Generation of '27 and the Generation of '36 movements. Born and raised in a family of low resources, he was self-taught in what refers to literature, and struggled against an unfavourable environment to build up his intellectual education, such as a father who physically abused him for spending time with books instead of working, and who took him out of school as soon as he finished his primary education. At school, he became a friend of Ramón Sijé, a well-educated boy who lent and recommended books to Hernández, and whose death would inspire his most famous poem, Elegy.
9. Al patricio Juan Pablo Duarte y Díez
Juan Pablo Duarte y Díez was a Dominican military leader, writer, activist, and nationalist politician who was the foremost of the founding fathers of the Dominican Republic and bears the title of Father of the Nation. As one of the most celebrated figures in Dominican history, Duarte is considered a folk hero and revolutionary visionary in the modern Dominican Republic, who along with military generals Ramón Matías Mella and Francisco del Rosario Sánchez, organized and promoted La Trinitaria, a secret society that eventually led to the Dominican revolt and independence from Haitian rule in 1844 and the start of the Dominican War of Independence.
10. Museo de Artes y Tradiciones Populares. Centro Cultural La Corrala
The La Corrala Cultural Centre, home to the Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions, has been located since 2012 in a corrala on Calle Carlos Arniches, numbers 3 and 5, next to the Rastro de Madrid, in the Spanish capital. As an original project of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, its objectives are to promote the creativity and scientific innovation capacity of this university institution throughout Madrid. It is directed by the collective La Corrala with a long tradition of cultural management in Madrid, which previously directed installations such as the Sala Cadarso and reopened the Sala Olimpia as a theatre space in September 1979.
11. Capilla de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad
The Humilladero de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad is a small chapel located at number 44 Calle de Fuencarral in Madrid, on the corner of the old Calle de Santa María del Arco. It was built in 1712 due to the fact that in the vicinity there was a painting of the Virgin of Our Lady of Solitude, to which the residents of the area professed a great devotion. The small building is made of brick and ashlar masonry, and access to the temple is through a door crowned by a semicircular arch. It is the only one of its kind left in Madrid, along with the Corner Virgin in the house-palace of Ricardo Augustín in the Plaza de Ramales.
12. Cerro de Garabitas
Cerro Garabitas is a hill located in Madrid's Casa de Campo park. This place was the scene of several battles during the Civil War in the Battle of Madrid. This hill, being one of the highest points of the Casa de Campo with its 677 meters of altitude, was the location of the artillery batteries that from the beginning of December 1936 would bombard Madrid. During the period of the war, an attempt was made to achieve this strategic position in order to stop the bombing of Madrid, but the attempt was unsuccessful throughout the period 1936-1939. Today, at the top of the hill there is a watchtower for the park rangers.
13. Palacio del Marqués de Salamanca - Fundación BBVA
The palace of the Marquis of Salamanca is located on the Paseo de Recoletos in Madrid, Spain. It was built by José de Salamanca y Mayol, Marquis of Salamanca, in the mid-nineteenth century, in an area that, although it was within the enclosure limited by the fence of Philip IV, was still suburban. During the nineteenth century it became the property of a bank, which subjected the building to various modifications to adapt it to business use. Since 2000 it has been an asset of cultural interest in the category of monument. It is the Madrid headquarters of the BBVA Foundation.
14. Museo Postal y Telegráfico
The Postal and Telegraphic Museum is a museum in Madrid (Spain) that shows the history, origin and evolution of postal and telegraphic communications, the history of philately, through stamps from Spain and the world since the end of the eighteenth century and telephony, with the exhibition of pieces from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Museum offers thematic and chronological information, documentary collections of Cartography, philatelic collections of the first stamp issues and makes the History of Telecommunications in Spain available to everyone.
15. Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Valverde
The sanctuary of Nuestra Señora de Valverde is a monumental complex located in the district of Fuencarral-El Pardo in the city of Madrid. It is located at km 12 of the Colmenar Viejo road. A monastery and a palace-house were built around the primitive hermitage dedicated to the Virgin of Valverde, whose image was, according to tradition, miraculously found in 1242. In 1977 the process for the declaration as an asset of cultural interest was initiated, although the declaration was not carried out. On July 7, 2021, it was declared an asset of cultural interest.
16. 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.
17. Monumento a las Brigadas Internacionales
Memorial to the International Brigades is a memorial structure, located in the campus of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, dedicated to the members of the International Brigade who fought in the Spanish Civil War. Erected on 22 October 2011, the monument has been vandalised, and in 2013 the Supreme Court in Madrid upheld a complaint that the monument was a violation of local planning regulations and should be removed. The university replied by insisting that the local government had not acknowledged the application that they had made.
18. Teatro de Lara
The Lara theatre is a vetuous Italian theatre built in 1879 in the 15 of the Corredera Baja de San Pablo of Madrid Barrio de Maravillas, in the surroundings of what since the last third of the 20th century is known as the Malasaña area. It was born of the particular initiative of the "Cándido Lara plutocrat", and was opened on September 3, 1880. Among the most important premieres in it, the Created Interests, of Jacinto Benavente, in 1907, and the Ballet of Falla El Love Witch, in 1915. It has a range of 464 people and nine boxes.
19. Real Academia de la Historia
The Real Academia de la Historia is a Spanish institution in Madrid that studies history "ancient and modern, political, civil, ecclesiastical, military, scientific, of letters and arts, that is to say, the different branches of life, of civilisation, and of the culture of the Spanish people". Spanish people in this regard are understood to be citizens of the Kingdom of Spain or the indigenous people of its predecessors, or their descendants. The academy was established by royal decree of Philip V of Spain on 18 April 1738.
20. Obelisco de la Arganzuela
The Obelisk of La 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 Castellana obelisk or the Castellana Fountain obelisk – a name that it still retains for heritage conservation purposes. 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. Work began under the regency of Maria Christina of Bourbon in 1833.
21. Galerías Piquer
The Piquer galleries is a group of antique stores located on the street of La Ribera de Curtidores where it is celebrated every Sunday and festive, the Madrid market called: Trace. The center was designed by the Spanish architect José de Azpiroz and Azpiroz in 1950. The initial denomination was: Isla de Cuba galleries, but the popularity of the inauguration by Mayor José Moreno Torres in the company of the Spanish actress and tonadillera Concha Piquer galleries were the one that remained in the popular denomination.
22. Parque de la Bombilla
The Park of La Bombilla is a landscaped area in Madrid, parallel to the West Park. Formerly the space was used as municipal nurseries to cultivate the trees that were subsequently included in the streets. The park is located between Valladolid Avenue, the University City and the old North Station, the railway lines of Ceniaís C7 and C10 pass between the both gardens. On June 13 of each year part of the park becomes the main stage of the San Antonio festivities, in addition to the circus, in winter and summer cinema.
23. Santuario La Milagrosa
The Church of La Milagrosa, formerly Church of San Vicente de Paul, is a Roman Catholic church in Madrid, Spain. With an area of 900 square metres (9,700 sq ft), it is situated on Calle García de Paredes, west of the InterContinental Madrid. The church was built between 1900 and 1904 under the architects Juan Bautista Lázaro de Diego and Narciso Clavería y de Palacios. The architecture is eclectic, exhibiting Neo-Mudéjar features on the exterior and mainly Neo-Gothic features in the interior.
24. Parque de Enrique Tierno Galván
Enrique Tierno Galván's park is an urban park is located in the southeast of the city of Madrid (Spain). With 45 hectares, it is one of the largest surface of the city. It was started to build in 1985, during the mandate of the mayor who gives his name and who would be dedicated after his death, was inaugurated on May 10, 1987. In addition to a place for him dedicated, with a statue, he also welcomes his The city planetarium enclosure, an outdoor auditorium and the old IMAX system cinema.
25. 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 a capacity in the hall 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 regained its royal name.
26. Abismo
Abismo is a roller coaster from the Madrid Amusement Park, inaugurated on June 27, 2006 and with video. It is a Skyloop XT-450 model, designed by the German company Maurer AG. It begins with a vertical climb that ends with the wagon upside down, continuing with a corkscrew, continuing at a speed of 105 km/h and performing all kinds of inversions, ringlets, immelmann turns and banked curves. To be able to climb it is necessary to measure more than 1.35 m and less than 2 m.
27. Monumento a la Infanta Isabel
Infanta Isabel of Spain was the oldest daughter of Queen Isabella II of Spain and her husband Francisco de Asís, Duke of Cádiz. She was the heiress presumptive to the Spanish throne from 1851 to 1857 and from 1874 to 1880. She was given the title Princess of Asturias, which is reserved for the heir to the Spanish crown. In 1868, she married Prince Gaetan, Count of Girgenti, a son of King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies. Gaetan committed suicide three years later.
Wikipedia: Infanta Isabel, Countess of Girgenti (EN), Website
28. Acueducto de Amaniel
The low channel is a water transport channel from the Canal de Isabel II, a company that supplies the water to Madrid, which links the lower deposit of the Torrelaguna power plant with the Philippine Islands deposit in Madrid. It has a length of 58.1 km and a driving capacity of 4 m³/s. The work level of the start of the channel tank is 715.23 m s. n. m. and the level of the arrival tank is 690.82 m s. n. m., so the slope of the route does not reach 24.5 m.
29. Monumento a Elena Fortún
María de la Encarnación Gertrudis Jacoba Aragoneses y de Urquijo was a Spanish author of children's literature who wrote under the pen name Elena Fortún. She became famous for Celia, lo que dice the first in the series of children's novels which were a collection of short stories first published in magazines in 1929. The series were both popular and successful during the time of their publications and are today considered classics of Spanish literature.
30. Ermita de San Pelayo y San Isidoro de Ávila
The Ermita de San Pelayo y San Isidoro is a ruined Romanesque church, originally in the city of Ávila, Spain. It was built outside the city walls, in front to the Gate of Malaventura in the south side of the Walls. In Ávila, there remains an area known as the Atrium of San Isidro. After the Spanish confiscation, it was moved to Madrid, where it had different locations. Its remains finally found accommodation in the Buen Retiro Park in central Madrid.
31. Depósito de Plaza Castilla
The Plaza de Castilla Reservoir is an installation belonging to the Canal de Isabel II (Madrid). It has been located since 1952 at the end of the Paseo de la Castellana in an annex to the Plaza de Castilla. It is located on the municipal land of what was the fourth deposit of the Plaza de Castilla, and with a capacity of 180,000 m³. The second elevated tank was built in 1939 with a capacity of 3,800 m³ and a height above ground level of about 40 m.
32. Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos
The College of Engineers of Roads, Channels and Ports is a professional college of Spain. It was created in 1954-5 with a direct link with the profession of road engineer, channels and ports, within civil engineering. Since its creation, in 1954-5, it is a unique school, organized territorially in demarcations, which coincide with the Spanish autonomous communities. The Ciccp regulates the profession of road engineer, channels and ports in Spain.
Wikipedia: Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos Canales y Puertos (ES), Website
33. Parque de las Vistillas
The gardens of Las Vistillas or simply the shores are a recoleto urban park of the Spanish city of Madrid located on the top and slopes of the old hill of the Campillo de las Vistillas, on a natural balcon To the north by the old channel of the San Pedro stream, on which Segovia street was projected. The southern limit is marked by the Calle del Rosario and the Eastern the road axis formed by the street of Bailén and the San Francisco race.
34. Teatro de La Abadía
La Abadía is a centre for studies and scenic creation in Madrid, Spain, in line with European art theatres, with a stable team, directed by Juan Mayorga. It combines ongoing research and training with the creation of shows. The most publicly visible activity of the Teatro de La Abadía is to produce productions and host the works of related companies. Workshops and meetings with important masters of interpretation surround this activity.
35. Parque Urbano de Entrevías
The Entrevías Urban Park is a green area of 121,178 m² located in the Entrevías neighbourhood, south of the Puente de Vallecas district within the Entrevías green belt that includes the Entrevías Urban Park and the Entrevías Forest Park. It is bordered to the north by the Entrevías Sports Centre, to the east and west by the forest area of Entrevías and to the south by the EMT depots and the road from Villaverde to Vallecas
36. Parque del Emir Mohamed I
Mohamed I Park is a monumental site in Madrid, located in the Palacio neighbourhood of the Centro district, and urbanised as a public space with a sober Andalusian-style landscape. It is dedicated to Muhammad I of Cordoba, considered the founder of the city ("Mayrit") as a military enclave between 860 and 880. Inaugurated in 2010, the complex accompanies part of the route of the Cuesta de la Vega, next to the Almudena Cathedral.
37. Plaza de España
Plaza de España is a large square and popular tourist destination located in central Madrid, Spain at the western end of the Gran Vía. It features a monument to Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and is adjacent to two of Madrid's most prominent skyscrapers. Additionally, the Palacio Real is only a short walk south from the plaza. After 2+1⁄2 years of renovation, on 22 November 2021, the square was reopened for pedestrians.
38. Casita del Pescador
Casita del Pescador del Buen Retiro is one of the caprichos, small constructions of romantic character, that King Ferdinand VII ordered to be built in the Retiro Park, in Madrid, for the exclusive use of the monarchy. The building, which is located in the northeastern area of the Retiro Park, is surrounded by a pond and forms a reserved garden and rest room. At present, it houses an information point in the Retiro Park.
39. Jardín del Príncipe de Anglona
The Prince of Anglona garden is located in the Plaza de la Paja, in the area known as Madrid de los Austrias, specifically in the neighbourhood of La Latina, one of the main tourist centres 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.
40. Los portadores de la antorcha
The Torchbearers is an aluminum sculpture made by the American artist Anna Hyatt Huntington and donated to the city of Madrid. Since its inauguration on May 15, 1955, it has been located in the Plaza de Ramón y Cajal, on the Moncloa campus of the Complutense University of Madrid "La Docta". The inauguration was attended by the author and her husband Archer Milton Huntington, founder of the Hispanic Society of America.
41. Palace of Zarzuela
The Zarzuela Palace is the residence and working offices of the reigning monarch of Spain, although the official residence of the Spanish royal family is the Royal Palace of Madrid. The Zarzuela Palace is on the outskirts of Madrid, near the Royal Palace of El Pardo, which accommodates visiting heads of state. The palace is owned by the Spanish government and administered by a state agency named Patrimonio Nacional.
42. Teatro Español
Teatro Español, formerly Teatro del Príncipe and Corral del Príncipe, is a public theatre administered by the Government of Madrid, Spain. The original location was an open-air theatre in medieval times, where short performances and some theatrical pieces, which became part of famous classical literature in later years, were staged. Its establishment was authorized by a royal decree of Philip II in 1565.
43. Exedra
An exedra is a semicircular architectural recess or platform, sometimes crowned by a semi-dome, and either set into a building's façade or free-standing. The original Greek sense was applied to a room that opened onto a stoa, ringed with curved high-backed stone benches, a suitable place for conversation. An exedra may also be expressed by a curved break in a colonnade, perhaps with a semicircular seat.
44. Palacio Real de El Pardo
The Royal Palace of El Pardo is one of the residences of the Spanish royal family. Originally it was a hunting lodge for the Habsburgs, and later became the main winter residence of the sovereign under the Bourbons. During the Franco dictatorship it was the official residence of Francisco Franco, and its main use today is to accommodate foreign heads of state when they are on an official visit to Spain.
45. Invernadero del Palacio de Cristal de Arganzuela
The Arganzuela Crystal Palace is located in the Spanish city of Madrid, in the facilities of what was formerly part of the Municipal Matadero of Arganzuela. It has an extension of 7100 m². It was popularly known with the name of potatoes, and its great rectangular structure of steel profiles is preserved, which is used as a greenhouse and botanical museum, with plants from various parts of the world.
46. Museo de Aeronáutica y Astronáutica - Museo del Aire
Museum of Aeronautics and Astronautics, also known as Air Museum, is an aviation museum located near of Madrid, is situated at Cuatro Vientos Air Base, Spain. The objective of the museum is to acquire, conserve and display the aircraft, equipment and associated paraphernalia that constitute the historical heritage of the Spanish Air and Space Force. It has an exterior exhibition and seven hangars.
Wikipedia: Museum of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Madrid) (EN), Website
47. Fuente de los Afligidos
The Fountain of the Afflicted, also known as the Cristino Martos fountain, is a fountain in the city of Madrid located between Calle de la Princesa and Plaza de Cristino Martos. The original fountain, also called the fountain of San Joaquín, was replaced in 1952 by the one that has since been part of the monumental complex dedicated to the Spanish physician and bacteriologist Jaume Ferran i Clua.
48. 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. It is joined to the north by the streets of Arganzuela, Mira el Río Baja, Carlos Arniches and Mira el Sol, and is bounded to the south by the Ronda de Toledo. Historically, it can be considered the southern border of the Rastro market.
49. Monumento a Bernardo O'Higgins
Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme was a Chilean independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence. He was a wealthy landowner of Basque-Spanish and Irish ancestry. Although he was the second Supreme Director of Chile (1817–1823), he is considered one of Chile's founding fathers, as he was the first holder of this title to head a fully independent Chilean state.
50. Placa en honor a Carrero Blanco
On 20 December 1973, Luis Carrero Blanco, the Prime Minister of Spain, was assassinated in a car bombing set up by the Basque separatist group ETA. The assassination, also known by its code name Operación Ogro, is considered to have been the biggest attack against the Francoist State since the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 and had far-reaching consequences within the politics of Spain.
51. General Martínez Campos
The Monument to General Martínez Campos is an instance of public art in Madrid, Spain. Designed by Mariano Benlliure, it consists of an sculptural ensemble presided by an equestrian statue of General Arsenio Martínez Campos, who played a key role in bringing the Bourbon Restoration by leading the coup d'etat of Sagunto in 1874. It lies on the centre of the Plaza de Guatemala, in El Retiro.
52. Parque de Atracciones de Madrid
Parque de Atracciones de Madrid is a 20-hectare (49-acre) amusement park located in the Casa de Campo in Madrid, Spain. Opened in 1969, it is the third-oldest operating amusement park in Spain behind Parc d'Atraccions Tibidabo and Parque de Atracciones Monte Igueldo. It is the flagship park of Parques Reunidos, who operates the park under Madrid municipal government concession until 2039.
53. Fuente Juan de Villanueva
The Juan de Villanueva Fountain is a monumental fountain in Madrid that is currently located in the Parque del Oeste, between Paseo de Camoens and Calle de Francisco y Jacinto Alcántara. From its inauguration in 1952 until 1995, it was located in the San Vicente roundabout. Due to its shape or its previous location, it has also been called the fountain of Príncipe Pío or "ace of cups".
54. Puerta de la Ilustración
The Gate of Enlightenment is an urban sculpture from the last third of the 20th century, erected as a monumental door. It is located in the Spanish city of Madrid, at the confluence of Avenida de la Ilustración with the roundabout of the Royal Academies, within the Barrio del Pilar, one of the eight neighborhoods into which the district of Fuencarral-El Pardo is administratively divided.
55. Estatua del Marqués del Duero
Marqués del Duero, also known as Monumento al Marqués del Duero, is an instance of public art located in Madrid, Spain. Erected on the centre of the Plaza del Doctor Marañón, the monument consists of a bronze equestrian statue representing Manuel Gutiérrez de la Concha e Irigoyen—a general who stood out in the fight against Carlism—on a stone pedestal decorated with two reliefs.
Wikipedia: Monument to the Marquis of the Duero (Madrid) (EN)
56. Monumento a Cervantes
The Monument to Miguel de Cervantes is an instance of public art located in Madrid, Spain. Erected on the centre of the Plaza de España, it is dedicated to Miguel de Cervantes, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language. The monument incorporates a stone monolith with several statues and a detached bronze sculptural group representing Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.
57. Monumento al Mariscal Santa Cruz Calahumana
Andrés de Santa Cruz y Calahumana was a Bolivian general and politician who served as interim president of Peru in 1827, the interim president of Peru from 1836 to 1838 and the sixth president of Bolivia from 1829 to 1839. He also served as Supreme Protector of the short-lived Peru-Bolivian Confederation from 1836 to 1839, a political entity created mainly by his personal endeavors.
58. Parque de El Capricho
El Capricho is a park in Madrid. The word capricho is Spanish for "whim" or "caprice". It was created by María Josefa Pimentel, Duchess of Osuna (1752-1834) on her estate at Alameda de Osuna, which was then outside the city of Madrid. It is landscaped in eighteenth-century style with formal and naturalistic features. It is recognised as one of the most beautiful parks in the city.
59. 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.
60. Parque Forestal de Entrevías
The Entrevías Forest Park is a green area of 497,213 m² located in the neighbourhood of Entrevías, south of the Puente de Vallecas district with consolidated trees, mostly conifers. Renovated in the 1970s on the existing pine forest, today it is one of the largest public parks in the city. In addition, it is one of the sections through which the Madrid Cycling Ring runs.
61. Monumento a Eugenio de Santa Cruz y Espejo
Francisco Javier Eugenio de Santa Cruz y Espejo was a medical pioneer, writer and lawyer of criollo origin in colonial Ecuador. Although he was a notable scientist and writer, he stands out as a polemicist who inspired the separatist movement in Quito. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in colonial Ecuador. He was Quito's first journalist and hygienist.
62. Palacio Longoria - SGAE
The Palace of Longoria is an Art Nouveau palace that the politician and financier Francisco Javier González Longoria ordered to be built in the district of Chueca, at the corner of Fernando VI and Pelayo streets, in the city of Madrid, Spain. Together with the House of Gallardo in the Plaza de España, it is Madrid's most notable example of modernist architecture.
63. Velarde
The lions of the Congress of Deputies are two bronze sculptures that symbolically protect the entrance to the Cortes. They are located at the main entrance of the Palacio de las Cortes, in Madrid. They are popularly known as Daoíz and Velarde, the heroes of the Dos de Mayo Uprising, although sources indicate that they actually represent Hippomenes and Atalanta.
64. Andén 0 - Nave de motores de Pacífico
Platform 0 is an exhibition project of the Madrid Metro consisting of the historical Estación de Chamberí, which has been out of service since 1966, and the Motores de Pacífico generator building. Visitors can view the restored 1919 station with its original ceramic billboards and antique furniture, as well as displays about the history of the Madrid Metro.
65. Teatro Maravillas
The Teatro Maravillas is a theatre located in the Malasaña neighbourhood of Madrid. He is heir to several rooms of the same name, the first of which was inaugurated in 1887. In 1999 it was closed for security reasons, reopening in the autumn of 2005, already remodelled and by the same artists with which it was closed, the comedians Faemino and Cansado.
66. Puerta de Europa Este
The Gate of Europe towers, also known as KIO Towers, are twin office buildings near the Plaza de Castilla in Madrid, Spain. The towers have a height of 114 m (374 ft) and have 26 floors. They were constructed from 1989 to 1996. The Puerta de Europa is the second tallest twin towers in Spain after the Torres de Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
67. Madrid Río
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.
68. Puerta de Hierro
Puerta de Hierro is a monument of the second half of the 18th century, located in the northwest of Madrid, Spain, in the district of Moncloa near the Monte de El Pardo. It occupies a landscaped traffic island, defined by several branches of the highway A-6 and M-30, an enclave which is difficult to access. It is built in classical Baroque style.
69. Dehesa de la Villa
La Dehesa de la Villa is a park located in the northwest of the city of Madrid (Spain), specifically in the Ciudad Universitaria neighborhood of the Moncloa-Aravaca district. Its main characteristic is that it maintains its forest character, being mostly unlandscaped. It occupies an area of 64 hectares, having been much larger in the past.
70. Monumento a Concepción Arenal
Concepción Arenal Ponte was a graduate in law, thinker, journalist, poet and Galician dramatic author within the literary Realism and pioneer in Spanish feminism. Born in Ferrol, Galicia, she excelled in literature and was the first woman to attend university in Spain. She was also a pioneer and founder of the feminist movement in Spain.
71. 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 town, founder of the first savings bank in Spain, co-founder of the Ateneo de Madrid and the San Bernardino asylum.
72. Torre de la Parada
The Torre de la Parada is a former hunting lodge that was located in present-day Monte de El Pardo in Fuencarral-El Pardo, near the Royal Palace of El Pardo, some way outside Madrid in the Sierra de Guadarrama. It was mostly destroyed by fire when taken in 1714 by Austrian troops in the War of Spanish Succession, though the ruins remain.
73. Monumento a Simón Bolivar
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco was a Venezuelan military and political leader who led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish Empire. He is known colloquially as El Libertador, or the Liberator of America.
74. Zoo Aquarium de Madrid
The Madrid Zoo Aquarium is a 20-hectare (49-acre) zoo and aquarium located in the Casa de Campo in Madrid, Spain. The zoo is owned by the city, but is managed by the international entertainment operator Parques Reunidos. Opened in 1770, it is one of the largest zoos in Spain and one of the few zoos in the world that houses giant pandas.
75. Plaza de Menéndez Pelayo
Plaza de Menéndez Pelayo is a square in Madrid located on the campus of Ciudad Universitaria, in the district of Moncloa, in which several faculties of humanities and social and legal sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid are located. It is named after the Spanish writer, politician and scholar Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo.
76. Jardines del Palacio de El Pardo
The Gardens of the Palacio Real de El Pardo are the historical gardens of the Palacio de El Pardo, located in the homonymous neighborhood, north of Madrid. The gardens are small and parks, but of great ecological and historical importance. They belong, like the palace, to National Heritage and were declared Cultural Interest in 1934.
77. Parroquia de Santa Teresa y San José
The parish church of Santa Teresa y San José is a Roman Catholic church located in the Plaza de España in Madrid and belongs to the Carmelite order. With the name of the National Temple of Santa Teresa de Jesús and Convent of the Discalced Carmelite Fathers, it was declared an asset of cultural interest on December 20, 1995.
Wikipedia: Templo Nacional de Santa Teresa de Jesús y Convento de los Padres Carmelitas Descalzos (ES), Url
78. Basílica Pontificia de San Miguel
The Pontifical Basilica of St. Michael is a baroque Roman Catholic church and minor basilica in central Madrid, Spain. It is located in San Justo Street, adjacent to the Archbishop's Palace. It is the church of the Apostolic Nunciature to the Kingdom of Spain of the Holy See and is now administered by the priests of Opus Dei.
79. 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.
80. Torre PwC
The Torre PwC, formerly Torre Sacyr Vallehermoso, is a 52-floor, 236-metre-tall (774 ft) skyscraper, completed in 2008, located in Madrid, Spain. Torre PwC is one of four buildings in the Cuatro Torres Business Area. It was designed by Carlos Rubio Carvajal and Enrique Álvarez-Sala Walter and was built by Sacyr Sau.
81. Pegaso
The Glory and the Pegasus is an allegorical sculptural ensemble of monumental type, the work of Agustín Querol from 1905, of which there are currently two versions in Madrid (Spain): a bronze copy, exalting the Palacio de Fomento, and the original group, in marble, in the Plaza de Legazpi and the Glorieta de Cádiz.
82. 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 Puerta de Atocha, 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.
83. La Dama del Manzanares
The Lady of the Manzanares is an urban sculpture located in the Spanish city of Madrid. It is located at the highest point of the Manzanares Linear Park, a 35-hectare landscaped area articulated around the banks of the river of the same name, in the vicinity of the so-called southern junction of the M-30 motorway.
84. Puente de la Culebra
The Culebra Bridge is an eighteenth-century architectural work, built by the Madrid architect Pedro de Ribera, which is located in the Spanish city of Madrid. It was built in the Casa de Campo, on the bed of the Meaques stream, a tributary of the Manzanares River and the latter in turn of the Jarama River.
85. Fuente de los Tritones
The Fountain of the Tritons is a fountain in Rome (Italy), Piazza Bocca della Verità, in front of the basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin. This fountain should be distinguished from the similarly named nearby Triton Fountain by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, in the Piazza Barberini, with only a single Triton.
86. Carlos III
The equestrian statue of Carlos III, located in the Puerta del Sol in Madrid (Spain), is a bronze reproduction by Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Eduardo Zancada and Tomás Bañuelos Ramón of a model by Manuel Francisco Álvarez de la Peña preserved in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.
87. Palacio Viejo
The Old Palace of Queen María Cristina de Borbón is the name of an old building that after being enlarged became part of the so-called Vista Alegre Palace, which is located within the Vista Alegre Estate in the district of Carabanchel (Madrid). It is accessed from Calle General Ricardos, 177.
Wikipedia: Palacio Viejo de la Reina María Cristina de Borbón (ES)
88. Jardines de la Quinta del Duque del Arco
The Royal Possession of the Quinta del Duque del Arco is an example of the country houses that some aristocrats of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries used to retire to the outskirts of Madrid. It houses a palace, a farmhouse and Baroque gardens with sculptures and fountains.
89. Arco de la Victoria
Arco de la Victoria is a triumphal arch built in the Moncloa district of Madrid, Spain. The 49-m high arch was constructed at the behest of Francisco Franco to commemorate the victory of Francoist troops in the 1936 Battle of Ciudad Universitaria, part of the Spanish Civil War.
90. 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.
91. Monumento a Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Juana Inés de Asbaje Ramírez de Santillana, better known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz or Juana de Asbaje, was a Hieronymite nun and writer from New Spain, an exponent of the Golden Age of Spanish literature. He also incorporated classical Nahuatl into his poetic creation.
92. Instituto Cervantes
Edificio de Las Cariátides is a building in the Spanish capital of Madrid built by Spanish architect, Antonio Palacios. The building was later the head office of the Central Bank and later of the Santander Bank. As of 2006 it is the headquarters of the Instituto Cervantes.
93. Parroquia Santa María de la Antigua
The parish church of Santa María la Antigua is the parish church of the Vicálvaro district of Madrid. It is located within the Historic Centre of Vicálvaro at Calle Virgen de la Antigua, 9. Its style is Baroque and it was built at the beginning of the sixteenth century.
94. Castillo de la Alameda
The castle-fortress of La Alameda is located in the neighbourhood of Alameda de Osuna within the current Madrid district of Barajas, in the Community of Madrid (Spain). It was erected in the 15th century in the village of La Alameda, a 13th-century repopulation village.
95. Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Montserrat
The Church of Our Lady of Montserrat is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church in central Madrid, Spain. Despite the imposing facade on Calle San Bernardo, the interior has relatively few bays because it was not possible to complete the building as originally projected.
96. Paseo de la fama de Madrid
The Madrid Walk of Fame is a section of Calle Martín de los Heros located in the Argüelles neighborhood of Madrid, Spain, which pays tribute to the most outstanding actors and filmmakers of Spanish cinema, similar to the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard.
97. Palacio de los Condes de Guevara
The Palacio de los Condes de Guevara is located at number 2 of the Plaza de Santa Barbara in Madrid (Spain). It was built in 1920 by the architect Joaquín Pla Lorta for the Condes de Guevara, and converted in the second half of the 20th century for offices of a bank.
98. British Cemetery
The British Cemetery in Madrid was opened in 1854 in the Carabanchel district of Madrid, Spain, and the first burials took place that year. Few burials take place in the cemetery today because it is full, but there is provision for the interment of cremated remains.
99. Casa de las Siete Chimeneas
The House of the Seven Chimneys is a building located in Madrid, Spain. It was constructed in the sixteenth century and is named after its chimneys. In the seventeenth century it was an ambassadorial residence, being the home of Sir Richard Fanshawe and his family.
100. Ermita de San Isidro
The hermitage of San Isidro is a hermitage located in the Carabanchel district of the Spanish city of Madrid. Dedicated to the patron saint of the city, Isidro Labrador, it is located on the Paseo de la Ermita del Santo, at the end of the Paseo del Quince de Mayo.
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