Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #6 in Madrid, Spain
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8.9 km
227 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 MadridSight 1: Ramón de Campoamor
The monument to Campoamor located in Madrid is located in the Retiro Park, on Avenida de Fernán Núñez.
Sight 2: General Martínez Campos
The Monument to General Martínez Campos is an instance of public art in Madrid, Spain. Designed by Mariano Benlliure, it consists of an sculptural ensemble presided by an equestrian statue of General Arsenio Martínez Campos, who played a key role in bringing the Bourbon Restoration by leading the coup d'etat of Sagunto in 1874. It lies on the centre of the Plaza de Guatemala, in El Retiro.
Sight 3: Monumento a Cuba
The Monument to Cuba is an instance of public art in Madrid, Spain, consisting of a fountain over which an sculptural group topped by an allegory of Cuba emerges from. It is located at El Retiro Park.
Sight 4: Ermita de San Pelayo y San Isidoro de Ávila
The Ermita de San Pelayo y San Isidoro is a ruined Romanesque church, originally in the city of Ávila, Spain. It was built outside the city walls, in front to the Gate of Malaventura in the south side of the Walls. In Ávila, there remains an area known as the Atrium of San Isidro. After the Spanish confiscation, it was moved to Madrid, where it had different locations. Its remains finally found accommodation in the Buen Retiro Park in central Madrid.
Sight 5: Iglesia de San Manuel y San Benito
Saint Manuel and Saint Benedict is a Catholic church located in Madrid, Spain.
Wikipedia: Church of Saint Manuel and Saint Benedict (EN), Website, Url
Sight 6: Casón del Buen Retiro
The Casón del Buen Retiro is an annex of the Museo del Prado complex in Madrid. Following major restoration work, which was completed in October 2007, it now houses the museum's study centre and library.
Sight 7: Estatua de Goya
The monument to Francisco de Goya is a Spanish sculpture dedicated to the Aragonese painter Francisco de Goya, located on Calle de Felipe IV, in the vicinity of the Prado Museum in Madrid.
Sight 8: Monumento a Velázquez
Velázquez or the Statue of Velázquez is an instance of public art in Madrid, Spain. Located in front of the main gate of the Prado Museum, it is dedicated to Diego de Velázquez.
Sight 9: Monumento a los Caídos por España
The Monument to the Fallen for Spain or the Monument to the Heroes of the Second of May, popularly known as el Obelisco, is a war memorial in Madrid, Spain. It lies on the centre of the Plaza de la Lealtad.
Sight 10: Fountain of Neptune
The Fountain of Neptune is a neoclassical fountain located in Madrid, Spain. It lies on the centre of the Plaza de Cánovas del Castillo, a roundabout in the Paseo del Prado. The sculptural group in its centre represents Neptune, a Roman water deity.
Sight 11: Velarde
The lions of the Congress of Deputies are two bronze sculptures that symbolically protect the entrance to the Cortes. They are located at the main entrance of the Palacio de las Cortes, in Madrid. They are popularly known as Daoíz and Velarde, the heroes of the Dos de Mayo Uprising, although sources indicate that they actually represent Hippomenes and Atalanta.
Sight 12: Teatro Muñoz Seca
The Muñoz Seca Theater is a theater in Madrid, Spain. The theater is named after playwright Pedro Muñoz Seca.
Sight 13: Estatua Federico García Lorca
Federico García Lorca or the Monument to Federico García Lorca is an instance of public art in Madrid, Spain. Located at the Plaza de Santa Ana, in front of the Teatro Español, it consists of a bronze statue of the aforementioned poet and playwright.
Sight 14: Real Academia de la Historia
The Real Academia de la Historia is a Spanish institution in Madrid that studies history "ancient and modern, political, civil, ecclesiastical, military, scientific, of letters and arts, that is to say, the different branches of life, of civilisation, and of the culture of the Spanish people". Spanish people in this regard are understood to be citizens of the Kingdom of Spain or the indigenous people of its predecessors, or their descendants. The academy was established by royal decree of Philip V of Spain on 18 April 1738.
Sight 15: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Book Ticket*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.
Wikipedia: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (EN), Website
Sight 16: Sala Mirador
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.
Sight 17: Teatro La Latina
The Teatro de La Latina is a theatre venue in Madrid, located in the Plaza de la Cebada in the homonymous Barrio de La Latina, the work of the architect Pedro Muguruza.
Sight 18: Museo de Artes y Tradiciones Populares. Centro Cultural La Corrala
The La Corrala Cultural Centre, home to the Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions, has been located since 2012 in a corrala on Calle Carlos Arniches, numbers 3 and 5, next to the Rastro de Madrid, in the Spanish capital. As an original project of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, its objectives are to promote the creativity and scientific innovation capacity of this university institution throughout Madrid. It is directed by the collective La Corrala with a long tradition of cultural management in Madrid, which previously directed installations such as the Sala Cadarso and reopened the Sala Olimpia as a theatre space in September 1979.
Sight 19: Parroquia Virgen de la Paloma y San Pedro el Real
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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