Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Madrid, Spain

The Monument to Cánovas del Castillo is an instance of public art located in Madrid, Spain. The monument consists of a bronze statue of Antonio Cánovas del Castillo by Joaquín Bilbao at the top of a pedestal designed by José Grases Riera that features additional sculptural elements by Bilbao.

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The Arlequin Theatre is a small theatre hall in Madrid (Spain), located at number 5 Calle de San Bernardo, next to Gran Vía, on the ground floor of a large building, within the set of services known as Los Sótanos. Created in 1965, after several renovations it has about 350 seats, and in 2014, it took the name of Arlequín Gran Vía.

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The former Gran Vía cinema, then Teatro Compac Gran Vía in Madrid, then Teatro de la Luz Philips Gran Vía and now "Teatro EDP Gran Vía" is an entertainment venue in the capital of Spain located at number 66 Calle Gran Vía.

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The Coliseum building is a building in the Spanish city of Madrid, located at number 78 Gran Vía Street, in its last section. Built in the early 1930s, it has a theatre on its ground floor, although in the past these facilities were also used as a cinema.

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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.

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The Church of San Marcos is a parish church located in Madrid, Spain. It was designed by Ventura Rodríguez, and it one of a number of surviving buildings by this architect in the city.

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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 doctor and bacteriologist Jaume Ferran i Clua.

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The Plaza de Cristino Martos is an irregular space between the streets of La Princesa, to the south, and the confluent streets of San Bernardino, Manuel, Duque de Liria and Conde Duque, to the north-northeast. Although it was previously called the Plaza de los Afligidos, since 1895 it has been named after the orator Cristino Martos.

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The Alfil Theatre is a venue located in the University district, in the Centro district (Madrid). The theatre is a building designed by the architect José Aspiroz that is located on Calle del Pez, founded in 1948 initially as a morning session cinema, called Cine Pez. In 1971 it was transformed into a small theater. The company was owned by brothers Luis and José García Ramos. In January 1993 an order was issued to close the premises by councillor Ángel Matanzo, an order that was suspended by the mayor José María Álvarez del Manzano, when the Yllana company took over the situation. The theater has managed to survive in the first decade of the 21st century thanks to the support of this company. In 2006 the theatre was attacked by an incendiary bomb, which was defused before its explosion, during a play by actor Leo Bassi.

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Saint Anthony of the Germans is a Baroque, Roman Catholic church located at the corner of Calle de la Puebla and Corredera Baja de San Pablo Madrid, Spain. It is noted for its baroque interior decoration. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1973.

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The Lara Theatre is an old Italian-style theatre built in 1879 at number 15 of the Corredera Baja de San Pablo in Madrid's Barrio de Maravillas, in the surroundings of what has been known as the Malasaña area since the last third of the twentieth century. It was born from the private initiative of the "plutocrat Cándido Lara", and was inaugurated on September 3, 1880. Among the most important premieres at the festival, Los interés creados, by Jacinto Benavente, in 1907, and Falla's ballet El amor brujo, in 1915, stand out. It has a capacity of 464 people and nine boxes.

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The Church of la Buena Dicha is a church located in Madrid, Spain.

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The Church of San Martín is a church located in Madrid, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1995.

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The Matesanz house is a building located at number 27 Gran Vía Street in Madrid (Spain). Its construction was completed in 1923 and was designed by the architect Antonio Palacios Ramilo. The architectural style is heavily influenced by the Chicago School. Its name comes from the surname of the first owner of the building.

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The Oratory of Caballero de Gracia is a neoclassical church (oratory) located in Madrid, Spain. It is named after Jacobo de Grattis who was known as the Caballero de Gracia.

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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 because in the vicinity there was a painting of the Virgin of Our Lady of Solitude, to which the residents of the area professed 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 that remains in Madrid, along with the Rinconera virgin in the house-palace of Ricardo Augustín in the Plaza de Ramales.

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The church of San Antón is a religious temple located in the city of Madrid, annexed to the building of the Pious Schools, on Hortaleza Street.

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The Fountain of Fame is a Baroque fountain located in Madrid, Spain.

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The Cathedral of the Redeemer is a Protestant (Anglican) church in Madrid. It is the principal church of the Reformed Episcopal Church of Spain which is a member of the Anglican Communion.

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The Museum of Romanticism is an art museum in Madrid, Spain, devoted to Romanticism. It was inaugurated in 1924 as Museo Romántico. It is one of the National Museums of Spain and it is attached to the Ministry of Culture.

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The Palace of the Counts of Guevara is located at number 2 Plaza de Santa Bárbara in Madrid, Spain. It was built in 1920 by the architect Joaquín Pla Laporta for the Counts of Guevara, and converted in the second half of the twentieth century for the offices of a bank.

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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.

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The Plaza de las Salesas or Plaza del Convento de las Salesas is a landscaped space in the central district of the city of Madrid, Spain, bounded by the streets of Bárbara de Braganza, Conde de Xiquena, Santo Tomé, Fernando VI and General Castaños. It owes its name to the old and extensive complex of the monastery of the Salesas Reales, founded in 1748.

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The Santa Barbara, also known as Church of the Monastery of the Salesas Reales is a Catholic church, built in Neoclassic style, in central Madrid, Spain. It is one of a number of Spanish churches dedicated to St Barbara.

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The Infanta Isabel Theatre is a veteran theatre venue in Madrid, Spain, located on Calle del Barquillo in the Justicia district. It was inaugurated as a barracks for a cinematograph in 1906, it was transformed into a theater from 1914.

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The Marquina Theater is a theater room located in the Barrio de Justicia in the Centro District in Madrid, Spain. He gets up on a lot that the playwright Eduardo Marquina bequeathed to the Montepío of authors, hence his name was given. It has capacity for 500 spectators.

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The Theatre of María Guerrero is a theatre located in Madrid, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural on 1 March 1996. It is the home of the national theatre of Spain, Centro Dramático Nacional.

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Lucky Frog is a bronze sculpture of a frog by the Spanish artist dEmo, installed in Madrid, Spain, in 2014, outside the Casino Gran Madrid on the Paseo de Recoletos. The sculpture is 5 metres (16 ft) tall and weighs 2,000 kilograms (4,400 lb).

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The Monument to Columbus is a monument in Madrid, Spain. It lies on the namesake square, the Plaza de Colón. The basement of the monument is a Gothic revival work by Arturo Mélida while the topping statue is a work by Jerónimo Suñol.

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St George's Anglican Church, also known as Iglesia Anglicana-Episcopaliana de San Jorge or, simply Capilla Británica, is a small Anglican church located in the barrio of Recoletos, district of Salamanca, Madrid, Spain, which belongs to the Diocese in Europe of the Church of England. The church was built in 1923 and was consecrated in March 1925.

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