Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Madrid, Spain

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.

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The Cuartel de la Montaña was a military building in Madrid built during the nineteenth century, located on the mountain of Príncipe Pío. It achieved great notoriety for being the place where the military uprising of July 1936 began in the Spanish capital. It was practically destroyed during the civil war and would later be demolished.

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Agustín de Argüelles Álvarez, nicknamed "the Divine" for his oratory during the Cortes of Cádiz, was a Spanish lawyer, politician and diplomat. He was president of the Cortes in 1841 and tutor to Queen Isabel II.

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A los héroes del dos de mayo or Al pueblo del dos de mayo de 1808 is an instance of public art in Madrid, Spain. A sculptural work by Aniceto Marinas, the monument is an homage to the role of the Madrilenian people during the 1808 Dos de mayo uprising.

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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 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.

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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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Museo ABC is a museum in Madrid, Spain, dedicated to drawing and illustration.

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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.

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The Plaza del Dos de Mayo is an urban square in Madrid, Spain. It is the centre of the Malasaña area, within the administrative neighborhood of Universidad.

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

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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 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 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 Ildefonso y de los Santos Niños Justo y Pastor is a religious building, intended for Catholic worship, located in the square of the same name in the city of Madrid (Spain).

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

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

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The Rialto Theatre is a venue in Madrid, located in the Rialto building, number 54 Gran Vía Street. It was inaugurated in 1930 as a cinema and became popular with the first films of Imperio Argentina and, later, for being the premiere room of El último cuplé, Sara Montiel's "magnum opus".

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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 Lope de Vega Theatre is a theater in Madrid, Spain.

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The Monument to Philip IV or Fountain of Philip IV is a memorial to Philip IV of Spain in the centre of Plaza de Oriente in Madrid, Spain. It was raised at the insistence of Isabella II of Spain in the first half of the 19th century, opening on 17 November 1843, a year before Narciso Pascual y Colomer came up with the square's final layout. However, its equestrian statue of the king dates to the 17th century and was produced by the Italian sculptor Pietro Tacca. It was begun in 1634 and shipped to Madrid in 1640, the year of his death. The sculpture, atop a complicated fountain composition, forms the centerpiece of the façade of the Royal Palace. The statue was based in drawings by Diego Velázquez and a bust by Juan Martínez Montañés. The daring stability of the statue was calculated by Galileo Galilei: the horse rears, and the entire weight of the sculpture balances on the two rear legs—and, discreetly, its tail— a feat that had never been attempted in a figure on a heroic scale, of which Leonardo had dreamed.

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The Royal Palace of Madrid is the official residence of the Spanish royal family at the city of Madrid, although now used only for state ceremonies. The palace has 135,000 m2 (1,450,000 sq ft) of floor space and contains 3,418 rooms. It is the largest royal palace in Europe.

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The Royal Armoury of Madrid or Real Armería de Madrid, is a collection that, among many other things, contains the personal arms of the Kings of Spain, and also houses military weapons, armours and diplomatic works of art like mixed tapestries, paintings and other works of art and trophies. Among the most notable parts of the collection are armor and full tools that Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and Philip II used. It is considered, along with the Imperial Armory of Vienna, one of the best in the world.

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The Bridge of Segovia is a bridge located in Madrid, Spain, crossing the Manzanares river. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1996.

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The church of Santa Cristina is a temple located in Madrid. Originally designed in neo-Gothic style, Repullés y Vargas finally executed a neo-Mudejar building. It is located in the Puerta del Ángel neighborhood. During the initial periods of the Civil War it was converted into a Checa.

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