Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #12 in Madrid, Spain

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 monument to Pío Baroja is a Spanish sculpture dedicated to the writer Pío Baroja, which is located at the end of the Cuesta de Moyano, next to the intersection with Alfonso XII Street in Madrid. It is the work of the sculptor Federico Coullaut-Valera.

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Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid is an 8 hectares botanical garden in Madrid (Spain). The public entrance is located at Plaza de Murillo, next to the Prado Museum.

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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 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 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 church in the Spanish city of Madrid, located at 2 Calle del Doctor Piga, in the Lavapiés neighborhood. It is the center of the celebrations of the verbena de San Lorenzo in the neighborhood.

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The Teatro del Barrio is a Spanish cultural and theatrical space located in the Lavapiés neighborhood of Madrid. It was inaugurated in December 2013 and is characterized by being an artistic, political and cultural platform. Its focus is on the use of theatre as a tool for social transformation and on citizen participation in contemporary cultural and political changes. In September 2024, he was awarded the National Theater Award, in recognition of his work on the cultural scene and his social commitment.

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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 Teatro Pavón, Calle de Embajadores 9, is a theatre in Madrid opened in 1925. The architect was Teodoro de Anasagasti.

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The La Corrala Cultural Center, home to the Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions, has been installed since 2012 in a corrala on Carlos Arniches Street, numbers 3 and 5, next to the Rastro de Madrid, in the Spanish capital. As an original project of the Autonomous University of Madrid, its objectives are to promote the creativity and capacity for scientific innovation of this university institution throughout Madrid. It is directed by the La Corrala collective with a long tradition of cultural management in Madrid, which previously directed facilities such as the Sala Cadarso and reopened the Sala Olimpia as a theater space in September 1979.

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The Piquer Galleries is a group of antique shops located on Ribera de Curtidores street where the Madrid market called: Rastro is held every Sunday and holiday. The center was designed by the Spanish architect José de Azpiroz y Azpiroz in 1950. The initial name was: Galerías Isla de Cuba, but the popularity of the inauguration by the mayor José Moreno Torres in the company of the Spanish actress and tonadillera Concha Piquer made Galerías Piquer the one that remained in the popular name.

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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. The streets of Arganzuela, Mira el Río Baja, Carlos Arniches and Mira el Sol flow into it to the north, being limited to the south by the Ronda de Toledo. Historically, it can be considered the southern border of the Rastro market.

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The church of La Paloma is the popular name given to the church of the parish of San Pedro el Real, a Catholic temple located in the Spanish city of Madrid, on Calle de la Paloma. It is part of the religious celebrations of the verbena de la Paloma.

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The Puerta de Toledo is a gate located in Madrid, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1996. Construction began in 1812, but was not completed until 1827.

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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-nineteenth century and the 1960s.

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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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