Palace Hotel Madrid

... The town remains much as he left it, a rare example of Renaissance planning to create an ideal courtly and Christian community. Peñaranda is a wonderfully preserved village with a splendid Renaissance palace, venue for the final concert of the Festival.

... as a bullfighting ring and also where they held the executions during the Spanish Inquisition. Wednesday we started at the palace in Madrid. The place is huge and the interior is very impressive inside. I think it is newer than most of ...

... just happens in your cone of vision. Retiro Park is quite the place for PDA!! The 10th-century fortress and now Royal Palace of Madrid was the official residence of the Spanish Royal Family. Next to the Palace was the Almudena Cathedral, took over 100 ...

... . We ended the night picking up some groceries and eating at KFC. It was a pretty chill day. Today, we visited the Royal Palace of Madrid, The Salvation Army, and El Retiro Park. It was a good day! The palace was huge - it's got 2,800 rooms, but only ...

... Madrid has to offer, those being museums. Madrid has an amazing modern art museum and for pure extravagance Palacio Real de Madrid (Palace of Madrid), is hard to beat. The palace also boasts the best armory I can ever remember seeing. Spanish armor is ...

... we went to though are Plaza Oriente, which was where Madrid was founded, Castle Royale (the opera house), and the palace of Madrid, which was built three different times due to fires and is now used for conferences.  An interesting story about the ...

... coffee stop coincided with the noon display of a clock with music and dancing figures that come out of a wall on a building next to the Palace Hotel.  We stopped for a late lunch, our last "menu del dais" with a nice glass of wine in the sun.  ...

... hop on and off at our leisure in order to explore by foot places of particular interest to us. One such place being the Palace Hotel (an extravagant Westin family hotel for which a one night’s stay would probably cost the same amount as our entire ...

... the week my dad and I will be going to Toledo, El Escorial and the Valley of the Fallen to finish out our time in Madrid. Uploading pictures is taking a lot of time.  When I return to the U.S., I will add more pictures to my last entry.  ...

Drove to Madrid and circled for an hour to get to our hotel as most streets are one way and pedestrian only. Madrid is beautiful. Hotel Petit Palace Puerta del Sol is  aboutique ...

... be a little hot and black on brass last will save your ass).  I also tripped coming down the incredibly shallow steps in the Palace.  Lucky no one was around at that hour of the night to see me.  There's nothing like a diplomatic incident ...

... con leche with some croissants and bread things and churros, then went to take the metro down to the older part of Madrid.  I don't remember what exactly we were looking for, but we just started walking around finding random places. The first place ...

... still the preferred method of travel in my mind. To Stay: I stayed in 2 hotels while here. The Westin Palace Madrid is a beautiful 5 star hotel centrally located close to sights, great food and nightlife. It is directly opposite the Museo del Prado and ...

... problem. I will elaborate on it later on... We decided to avoid jet lag and just drop our belongings off in the hotel and head out to conquer Madrid. We began with Plaza de España. Whoop-te-doo. A park, statues, trees, okay. We then head to Plaza Mayor ...

... of Toledo.  Aranjez was the next destination.  Here, Felipe II kindly sponsored a magnificent summer palace, erected as a retreat from the torpor of the Madrid summer.  We wondered if he got it right as the Aranjez we encountered was very ...

... after R’s wee mishap with spilling a glass of wine on his wiff :). Cervantes restaurant, 3 minutes from the hotel for the best meal in Madrid!  Wound our way back to the very back of the restaurant, wondering where the heck we were going, past ...

... all of the little details of my experiences.  To put it simply…it was absolutely amazing.  From the Royal Palace to a world famous 7-story nightclub, it was definitely a weekend packed full of experiences I will never forget. ...

... Jardin Botanico, and everything else on a list of Madrid must-sees. But we were about walked-out, so sitting atop a big red Madrid Vision tourist bus while getting an English audio tour sounded like the next best way to see Spain's capital. Plus you could ...

... pools, statues and mazelike hedges. The palace itself was a massive stone and marble building with gold detail. We then wandered Madrid’s winding streets and happened upon some really neat things to see. Check out the photo of Sacha and I as ...

... to be one of the best meals we enjoyed during our 2 weeks in Spain. The next morning, we visited the Palacio Real de Madrid, the largest palace in Europe covering over 1,450,000 sq ft and 2800 rooms.  The palace is only used for state ceremonies as ...