Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #12 in Madrid, Spain

The monument to Dante is an urban monument of Madrid (Spain) that honors the memory of the Italian writer Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) and is located at the door of Dante of the Gardens of the Good Retirement. It is a bronze mural made by the Italian artist Angelo Biancini (1911-1988) in 1968 and installed in May 1969.

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The Royal Basilica of Our Lady of Atocha is located in the city of Madrid, Spain, at Avenida de la Ciudad de Barcelona, number 1.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Royal Monastery of Santa Isabel is a monastery located in Madrid, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1995.

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The church of San Lorenzo is a Catholic temple in the Spanish city of Madrid, located in the n. 2 Dr. Piga Street, in the Lavapiés neighborhood. It is the center of the celebrations of the vervain of San Lorenzo in the neighborhood.

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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.

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La Casa Encendida is a social and cultural centre in central Madrid. It began operations in December 2002.

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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.

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The Circo Price, also known as El Price, is a 2,142-seat concert venue and former circus in Madrid.

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The Museo del Ferrocarril in Madrid, Spain, is one of the largest historic railroad collections in Europe. It is housed in a redundant railway station called Madrid-Delicias in the barrio of Delicias. The location is near the centre of Madrid.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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-19th century and the 1960s.

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The Principality of Andorra Bridge is a pedestrian walkway located in Madrid, Spain. It crosses the Manzanares River, linking the districts of Arganzuela and Latina.

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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.

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The Puerta Bonita, whose former name was Puerta de Madrid, was one of the four entrances that had the royal possession of the Finca de Vista Alegre in Madrid, also known as the Finca de Salamanca. Due to the subdivisions for the building, it was isolated from the farm.

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