Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #4 in Madrid, Spain

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 8 km
Ascend 157 m
Descend 193 m

Explore Madrid in Spain with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in MadridIndividual Sights in Madrid

Sight 1: Museo Lázaro Galdiano

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Museo Lázaro Galdiano Luis García (Zaqarbal) / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Lázaro Galdiano Museum is a museum located in Madrid, Spain. It houses the art collection of José Lázaro Galdiano. The museum was inaugurated on 27 January 1951.

Wikipedia: Lázaro Galdiano Museum (EN), Url

1631 meters / 20 minutes

Sight 2: National Archaeological Museum of Spain

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National Archaeological Museum of Spain

The National Archaeological Museum is a museum in Madrid, Spain. It is located on Calle de Serrano beside the Plaza de Colón, sharing its building with the National Library of Spain.

Wikipedia: National Archaeological Museum (Madrid) (EN), Website, Url

504 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 3: Monument to Christopher Columbus

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Monument to Christopher Columbus Luis García (Zaqarbal) / CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Wikipedia: Monument to Columbus (Madrid) (EN)

256 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Mujer con Espejo

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Woman with Mirror is a 1987 bronze sculpture in Madrid, Spain, by the Colombian sculptor Fernando Botero. The 1,000-kilogram (2,200 lb) sculpture is of a nude woman with a large figure lying on her front; this body shape is a trademark of the sculptor.

Wikipedia: Woman with Mirror (EN)

65 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: Museo de Cera

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A wax museum or waxworks usually consists of a collection of wax sculptures representing famous people from history and contemporary personalities exhibited in lifelike poses, wearing real clothes.

Wikipedia: Wax museum (EN), Website

499 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 6: Parroquia de Santa Bárbara

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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.

Wikipedia: Santa Bárbara, Madrid (EN), Website, Url

332 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: Palacio Longoria - SGAE

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Palacio Longoria - SGAE Luis García (Zaqarbal) / CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Wikipedia: Longoria Palace (EN)

263 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Palacio de los Condes de Guevara

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Palacio de los Condes de Guevara Luis García (Zaqarbal) / CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Wikipedia: Palacio de los Condes de Guevara (ES)

256 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 9: Catedral del Redentor

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Catedral del Redentor Luis García (Zaqarbal) / CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Wikipedia: Anglican Cathedral of the Redeemer (EN), Url

191 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Fuente de la Fama

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Fuente de la Fama Luis García (Zaqarbal) / CC BY-SA 3.0

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

Wikipedia: Fountain of Fame (Madrid) (EN)

408 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 11: Capilla de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad

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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.

Wikipedia: Humilladero de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad (ES)

495 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 12: Teatro Alfil

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Teatro Alfil Luis García (Zaqarbal) / CC BY-SA 3.0 es

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.

Wikipedia: Teatro Alfil (ES)

575 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 13: Plaza del Dos de Mayo

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Plaza del Dos de Mayo

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

Wikipedia: Plaza del Dos de Mayo (EN)

230 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 14: Teatro Maravillas

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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.

Wikipedia: Teatro Maravillas (ES)

407 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 15: Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Montserrat

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Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Montserrat Luis García (Zaqarbal) / CC BY-SA 3.0 es

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.

Wikipedia: Our Lady of Montserrat Church, Madrid (EN), Url

734 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 16: Fuente de los Afligidos

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Fuente de los Afligidos Luis García (Zaqarbal) / CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Wikipedia: Fuente de los Afligidos (ES)

184 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 17: Parroquia de San Marcos

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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.

Wikipedia: Church of San Marcos (Madrid) (EN), Url

421 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 18: Monumento al Pueblo del Dos de Mayo de 1808

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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.

Wikipedia: Al pueblo del dos de mayo de 1808 (EN)

188 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 19: Monumento a Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

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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.

Wikipedia: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (ES), Website

312 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 20: Monumento a Agustín de Argüelles

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Monumento a Agustín de Argüelles

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

Wikipedia: Agustín de Argüelles Álvarez (ES), Website

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