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Browse 112 reviews, 471 travel blogs, 700 photos and videos about 95 historic and cultural things to do in Madrid. You'll also find some useful ratings and information so that you can get all of the unbiased information you need before filling your next trip with lots of fun things to do.

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Retiro Park (Parque del Retiro) Madrid

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4.50
  • 15 reviews
  • 52 travel blogs
  • 102 photos
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  • Oct 3, 2006: ... for you, there's always the enchanting Retiro Park, the monumental, the estanque and the Palacio Cristal brilliant - the game ...
  • Aug 27, 2006: ... in the mid 30´s. I visited the Prado museum, which had a good Picasso exhibition. The Buen Retiro Park was also nice.
  • Apr 8, 2001: ... around, so ladies hold on to your handbags. - Retiro Park, nice boating lake and Crystal Palace. Good place for a picnic. ...
  • Apr 26, 2009: ... interesting... Here are some other pictures from Madrid taken in Retiro Park, which was really nice. Nothing like that ...

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza) Madrid

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4.50
  • 10 reviews
  • 5 travel blogs
  • 1 photo
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  • Jun 14, 2006: ... Walter mentioned he planned on going to the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, just as Ed and I had talked about. We arranged to meet ...
  • Feb 22, 2007: ... touristy stuff, we've already seen the Prado and the Thyssen-Bornemisza museums along with the Palacio Real and old "Austrian ...
  • Dec 10, 2008: ... ; as well as many French, Dutch, and German artists. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum had a special exhibition called 1914 The ...
  • Oct 1, 2008: ... ˇ   Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Museum) ˇ   Parc Guell ˇ   El Teleférico de Madrid ˇ   Museo ...

Prado Museum (Museo del Prado) Madrid

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4.00
  • 11 reviews
  • 113 travel blogs
  • 40 photos
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  • May 15, 2006: ... So this public holiday Monday I bring my camera and head for the famous Prado Museum. Being a Monday, the Prado is of course ...
  • Aug 27, 2006: ... though, with temperatures in the mid 30´s. I visited the Prado museum, which had a good Picasso exhibition. The Buen Retiro ...
  • Apr 18, 2007: ... juxtaposition, we followed that up with 4 hours in the Prado Museum. Bosch and El Greco until we were bloodshot. What a ...
  • May 28, 2008: ... , we consoled ourselves with making the best of Madrid by visiting the Prado museum, which is world-class. We also roamed the ...

Royal Palace of Madrid (Palacio Real)

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4.00
  • 7 reviews
  • 9 travel blogs
  • 3 photos
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  • Jun 4, 2006: ... of the Royal Sites of the Madrid surrounding area. We were to visit the Royal Palace of Aranjuez which is a palace located ...
  • May 22, 2008: ... pictures.  My favorite part of the your was The Royal Palace of Spain.  It only had 2,800 rooms.... :)  Yeah, ...
  • Jun 8, 2007: ... the crazy tourists.  we then went to the royal palace of spain and strolled through the armory, the living quarters of ...
  • Oct 16, 2007: ...   7.5/10 Highlights ; Plaza De Toros,Bernabeu,Royal Palace Of Madrid,Great Underground(Metro) Lowlights ; Not The ...

Queen Sofia Arts Center (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia) Madrid

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3.50
  • 8 reviews
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Plaza Mayor Madrid

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4.00
  • 10 reviews
  • 198 travel blogs
  • 304 photos
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  • Oct 11, 2007: ... the city.  Only steps from the famous Puerta del Sol and Plaza Mayor.  We couldn´t have picked a better spot.  ...
  • Aug 28, 2007: ... ceiling pattern that illuminated the place). We ate lunch in Plaza Mayor, walked around the city, I bought a new dictionary ...
  • May 19, 2007: ... .  Our walkabout led us to Plaza Mayor, a large and beautiful plaza in central Madrid.  The plaza's perimeter is ...
  • Nov 11, 2007: ... Oktoberfest, but they didn't understand my German. Next up was Plaza Mayor. This was how I thought Puerta Del Sol would be. ...

Sorolla Museum (Museo de Sorollo) Madrid

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4.00
  • 2 reviews
  • 2 travel blogs
  • 4 photos
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  • Oct 1, 2008: ... Guell ˇ   El Teleférico de Madrid ˇ   Museo Sorolla (Museum) ˇ   Museo de América (Museum)   ...
  • Oct 16, 2008: ... Guell ˇ   El Teleférico de Madrid ˇ   Museo Sorolla (Museum) ˇ   Museo de América (Museum) The ...

Convent of the Royal Barefoot Nuns (Monasterios de las Descalzas Reales) Madrid

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4.00
  • 7 reviews
  • 2 travel blogs
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# 13
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  • May 24, 2009: ... I realized I forgot about my plan to go to the Convent of the Royal Barefoot Nuns.  I got there at 2:25, but it closes ...
  • May 26, 2009: ... trees. Then it was time to go the Convent of the Royal Barefoot Nuns.  I got there and the guy told me that they only ...

Museo Naval Madrid

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4.00
  • 2 reviews
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# 15

Sobrino de Botin Madrid

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4.00
  • 17 reviews
  • 2 travel blogs
  • 1 photo
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# 17
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  • Jun 21, 2009: ... Or perhaps at one of the world's most famous restaurants, Sobrino de Botin. Botin is the oldest restaurant in the world (1725 ...
  • Jul 23, 2006: ... evening several of us went to the "Restaurante del Sobrino de Botín." It claims to be the oldest continuously open restaurant ...

Paseo de la Castellana Madrid

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  • 1 travel blog
  • 2 photos
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# 22
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  • Sep 20, 2007: ... Palace, Neptuno and Cibeles fountains, Gran Via and Paseo de la Castellana. And FREE TIME! And... ANOTHER SPA! ...

Chueca Madrid

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4.00
  • 1 review
  • 29 travel blogs
  • 14 photos
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# 32
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  • Nov 11, 2007: ... don't think anyone really knew, but then again, this is Spain !!! And not much later, we were back on the metro, heading ...
  • May 13, 2006: ... 5. Then Liz and Charles and I walked to Chueca, a hipper Soho-esque part of Madrid, and sat in a coffee shop where Liz and ...
  • Jul 2, 2006: ... most unco-operative though!), so we had dinner and a nice long chat before heading out to Chueca to check out the Pride Week ...
  • Jul 10, 2006: ... We wandered for a bit before settling in to Chueca for some sangria, and chatting the afternoon away. A lovely way to spend ...

Gran Via Madrid

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4.00
  • 1 review
  • 88 travel blogs
  • 37 photos
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# 34
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  • Feb 4, 2006: ... and Tolo. Lots of stuffed/preserved specimens from all over Spain and all over the world. The snow leopard and Tasmanian ...
  • Jul 16, 2006: ... afternoon we had walked around town checking out the main sites (Gran Via, Plaza de Espana, Palacio Real, A few churches, ...
  • Apr 15, 2009: ... and Rubens. Then we went to see the Gran Via, one of the biggest commercial streets in Madrid, where I tried to buy some ...
  • Apr 27, 2007: ... my umbrella, and headed back out.  I walked back up Gran Via and, of course, the sky cleared up again.  On my walk ...

The Valley of the Fallen (El Valle de los Caidos) Madrid

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4.00
  • 4 reviews
  • 14 travel blogs
  • 4 photos
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# 36
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  • Jun 1, 2006: ... we took a bus to El Valle de los Callidos (The Valley of the Fallen)! This is a beautiful valley high in the mountains that ...
  • Nov 10, 2004: ... nice little town where people making a trip to the Valley of the Fallen spend the night. Next week we are going to Segovia. ...
  • Nov 15, 2004: ... the mountains to Valle de los Caidos, which means the Valley of the Fallen. Franco, the old dictator, had his POW´s, 20K of ...
  • Jan 12, 2007: ... luck]     Just before Segovia is the Valley of the Fallen, which is a monument to the dead soldiers of the ...

Gateway of the Sun (Puerta del Sol) Madrid

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3.50
  • 3 reviews
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# 37

Plaza Colon Madrid

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  • 2 travel blogs
  • 4 photos
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# 38
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  • Jul 23, 2006: ... , stopping along the way just to sit and watch the passing parade, to Plaza Colón, where I met some other students for a ...
  • Sep 24, 1998: ... viaje, de veras!  Tomé el autobús que iba del aeropuerto a Plaza Colón, en esa época el metro de la línea 8 todavía estaba ...

Atocha Railroad Station (Estacion Atocha) Madrid

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4.00
  • 1 review
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# 41

Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial Madrid

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4.00
  • 1 review
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Templo de Debod Madrid

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4.00
  • 3 reviews
  • 6 travel blogs
  • 27 photos
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# 44
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  • Mar 10, 2002: ... , Plaza de Espana, etc. Yesterday we walked to the Templo de Debod. It is a nice park area with an Egyptian structure that ...
  • Nov 4, 2006: ... the streets, did some shopping, visited an Egyptian Temple- Templo de Debod, ate at delicious bakeries, saw a movie- La ...
  • Apr 11, 2009: ... Montana to see the Egyptian temple, Templo de Debod, and catch the sunset over Madrid. After about 10 minutes of walking, ...
  • Apr 8, 2008: ... was in school, I wandered around downtown, and I arrived at the Templo de Debod.  It's an ancient Egyptian temple that ...

Plaza Monumental de Toros de las Ventas Madrid

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