Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #9 in Madrid, Spain

The Puerta de San Vicente is a monumental gate located in the Glorieta de San Vicente in Madrid (Spain). Since 1995, it has occupied the space where the original door, designed by architect Francesco Sabatini, was located between 1775 and 1892.

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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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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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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.

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Infanta Isabel of Spain was the oldest daughter of Queen Isabella II of Spain and her husband Francisco de Asís, Duke of Cádiz. She was the heiress presumptive to the Spanish throne from 1851 to 1857 and from 1874 to 1880. She was given the title Princess of Asturias, which is reserved for the heir to the Spanish crown. In 1868, she married Prince Gaetan, Count of Girgenti, a son of King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies. Gaetan committed suicide three years later.

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Ukrainian-Mediterranean Airlines Flight 4230 was a chartered international passenger flight, a Yakovlev Yak-42D operated by Ukrainian UM Airlines, which crashed in 2003.

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The Juan de Villanueva Fountain is a monumental fountain in Madrid that is currently located in the Parque del Oeste, between Paseo de Camoens and Calle de Francisco y Jacinto Alcántara. From its inauguration in 1952 until 1995, it was located in the San Vicente roundabout. Due to its shape or its previous location, it has also been called the fountain of Príncipe Pío or "ace of cups".

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James I the Conqueror was King of Aragon, Count of Barcelona and Lord of Montpellier from 1213 to 1276; King of Majorca from 1231 to 1276; and Valencia from 1238 to 1276. His long reign of 62 years is not only the longest of any Iberian monarch, but one of the longest monarchical reigns in history, ahead of Hirohito but remaining behind Queen Victoria and Ferdinand III of Naples and Sicily. He saw the expansion of the Crown of Aragon in three directions: Languedoc to the north, the Balearic Islands to the southeast, and Valencia to the south. By a treaty with Louis IX of France, he achieved the renunciation of any possible claim of French suzerainty over the County of Barcelona and the other Catalan counties, while he renounced northward expansion and taking back the once Catalan territories in Occitania and vassal counties loyal to the County of Barcelona, lands that were lost by his father Peter II of Aragon in the Battle of Muret during the Albigensian Crusade and annexed by the Kingdom of France, and then decided to turn south. His great part in the Reconquista was similar in Mediterranean Spain to that of his contemporary Ferdinand III of Castile in Andalusia. One of the main reasons for this formal renunciation of most of the once Catalan territories in Languedoc and Occitania and any expansion into them is the fact that he was raised by the Knights Templar crusaders, who had defeated his father fighting for the Pope alongside the French, so it was effectively forbidden for him to try to maintain the traditional influence of the Count of Barcelona that previously existed in Occitania and Languedoc.

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The Madrid Walk of Fame is a section of Calle Martín de los Heros located in the Argüelles neighborhood of Madrid, Spain, which pays tribute to the most outstanding actors and filmmakers of Spanish cinema, similar to the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard.

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The Liria Palace is a neoclassical palace in Madrid, Spain. It is the Madrid residence of the Dukes of Alba.

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The Statue of Emilia Pardo Bazán is an instance of public art in Madrid, Spain. Located next to the calle de la Princesa, it is dedicated to Emilia Pardo Bazán.

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The Coliseum building is a building in the Spanish city of Madrid, located at number 78 Gran Vía Street, in its last section. Built in the early 1930s, it has a theatre on its ground floor, although in the past these facilities were also used as a cinema.

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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 Wonders is a Roman Catholic church in Madrid, Spain. With a portico to Calle de la Palma, one side to Calle del Dos de Mayo, and the oldest part of the enclosure of the monastery of San Antón facing the Plaza del Dos de Mayo.

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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.

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The College of Engineers of Roads, Channels and Ports is a professional college of Spain. It was created in 1954-5 with a direct link with the profession of road engineer, channels and ports, within civil engineering. Since its creation, in 1954-5, it is a unique school, organized territorially in demarcations, which coincide with the Spanish autonomous communities. The Ciccp regulates the profession of road engineer, channels and ports in Spain.

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On 20 December 1973, Luis Carrero Blanco, the Prime Minister of Spain, was assassinated in a car bombing set up by the Basque separatist group ETA. The assassination, also known by its code name Operación Ogro, is considered to have been the biggest attack against the Francoist State since the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 and had far-reaching consequences within the politics of Spain.

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