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MADRID VISION (sightseeing by bus) - Hop on hop off
Tickets: 16 EUR/adult/1 day, 7,5 EUR/child/1 day, 19 EUR/adult/2 days, 10 EUR/child/2 days
Schedule: January-March and October-December 10:00-19:00, April-June 10:00-21:00, July-September 9:30-24:00
Frequency: summer 10 minutes, winter 25 minutes
Stops: different routes
Historical Madrid: Teatro Real - Palacio Real - Puerta de Toledo - San Francisco El Grande - Catedral de la Almudena - Plaza Mayor - Puerta del Sol - Círculo de Bellas Artes - Museo Thyssen - Centro de Arte Reina Sofía - Jardín Botánico - Museo del Prado - Puerta de Alcalá - Barrio de Salamanca - Plaza de Colón - Plaza de Cibeles - Gran Vía - Plaza de Espana - Templo de Debod
Modern Madrid: Paseo del Prado - Plaza de Cibeles - Plaza de Colón - Museo de Esculturas - Museo de CC. Naturales - Nuevos Ministerios - Estadio Santiago Bernabé - C. Superior Investigaciones Científicas - Museo Lázaro Galdiano - C. Comercial ABC Serrano - Museo Arqueológico - Puerta de Alcalá - Alcalá - Las Cortes
Language: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Portugese
Route: Convento de las Descalzas Reales - Teatro Real - Plaza de la Villa - Plaza Mayor - Puerta del Sol - Cas de Lopez Vega - Casa de Cervantes - Paseo del Prado - Prado - Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza - Retiro park - Puerta de Alcala - Plaza de Cibeles - Real Academia de Bellas Artes - Palacio Real
Price: 22 EUR/person
Schedule: March-November 11:00
Rates: 4 EUR/1 hour, 6 EUR/2 hours, 8 EUR/4 hours, 12 EUR/4-8 hours, 15 EUR/day, 50 EUR/week
Themes: Royal Palace, Bourbon Dynasty, Art, Solemn, Retiro park etc.
Opening hours:
Royal Palace, Royal Armoury - April-September, Monday-Saturday 9:00-18:00, Sunday and public holidays 9:00-15:00, October-March, Monday-Saturday 9:30-17:00, Sunday and public holidays 9:00-14:00
Garden - April-September, Monday-Saturday 10:00-20:00, Sunday and public holidays 9:00-20:00, October-March, Monday-Saturday 10:00-18:00, Sunday and public holidays 9:00-18:00
Tickets: 8 EUR/adult, 6 EUR/child
Getting there: Metro - Opera, or Plaza de Espana
The Palacio Real de Madrid is the official residence of the King of Spain in the city of Madrid and it is only used for State Ceremonies. With an area of 135000 m2, it is the biggest palace in Europe. Of particular note among its numerous rooms are the Royal Guards' Room, the Columns Room, the Hall of Mirrors and King Charles III’s room, amongst others. It also contains paintings by Velázquez, Goya, Rubens, El Greco and Caravaggio.
Opening hours: Monday-Saturday 10:00-20:00, Sunday and holidays 10:00-19:00
(last admission 30 minutes before closing, the galleries are cleared 10 minutes before closing)
Tickets: 12 EUR/adult, children free up to 18 years
Admission + official guide: 22 EUR/adult
(This ticket allows the holder to visit the museum collection and temporary exhibitions on the same day)
Audio guide (English, Spanish, French, Italian, German): 3,5 EUR
Getting there: Metro - Banco de Espana or Atocha
The Museo del Prado is a museum and art gallery that features one of the world's finest collections of European art, from the 12th century to the early 19th century, based on the former Spanish Royal Collection. Founded as a museum of paintings and sculpture, it also contains important collections of more than 5,000 drawings, 2,000 prints, 1,000 coins and medals, and almost 2,000 decorative objects and works of art. In response to the size of its collections and the problem of choosing what to see in the Museum, the Prado has organised three routes (more info...) for visitors that focus on its masterpieces.
Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-19:00, Monday closed
(last admission 30 minutes before closing)
Tickets:
Thyssen-Bornemisza: 6 EUR/adult, children free up to 12 years
1914 exhibition: 6 EUR/adult, children free up to 12 years
Free entrance Tuesday-Sunday 18:00-20:00, Sunday 17:00-20:00.
Audio guide (English, Spanish, French, Italian, German): 4 EUR
Getting there: Metro - Banco de Espana
The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum offers visitors an overview of art from the 13th century to the late 20th century. In the nearly one thousand works on display, visitors can contemplate the major periods and pictorial schools of western art such as the Renaissance, Mannerism, the Baroque, Rococo, Romanticism and the art of the 19th and 20th centuries up to Pop Art. The museum also features works from some movements not represented in state-owned collections, such as Impressionism, Fauvism, German Expressionism and the experimental avant-garde movements of the early 20th century. In addition, it boasts an important collection of 19th-century American painting not found in any other European museum institutions.
MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFIA
Opening hours: Monday and Wednesday-Saturday 10:00-21:00, Sunday 10:00-14:30, Tuesday closed (last admission 15 minutes before closing)
Tickets: 6 EUR/adult, children free up to 18 years
Free entrance Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 19:00-21:00
Getting there: Metro - Atocha
Spain's national museum of 20th century art is mainly dedicated to Spanish art. The highlights include excellent collections of Spain's two greatest 20th century masters, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí. Certainly the most famous masterpiece in the museum is Picasso's great painting Guernica. The museum also hosts a free-access library specializing in art, with a collection of over 100,000 books, over 3,500 sound recordings and almost 1,000 videos.
Opening hours: Monday-Friday 10:00-14:00 (tours in every 45 minutes), closed in August
Tickets: 3,5 EUR/person
Getting there: Metro - Menéndez Pelayo
The Real Fabrica de Tapices is the only living museum in Madrid (1721-2003). This building, which was declared of Industrial Heritage, houses a collection of 18th, 19th and 20th century tapestries, carpets and paintings. The tapestry collection based on sketches by Goya is noteworthy. Visitors can watch the work of its craftsmen and women in the museum workshops.
SANTIAGO BERNABEU STADIUM (Real Madrid Stadium)
Opening hours: Monday-Saturday 10:00-19:30, Sunday 10:30-18:30
(closing 2 hours before match)
Tickets: 15 EUR/adult, 10 EUR/child
Getting there: Metro - Estación Santiago Bernabéu
All the hidden corners and legendary places can be visited during the Stadium Tour: Trophy room, the pitch, presidential balcony, players' tunnel, benches and coaching area, dressing rooms, press room. At the end of the tour the shop offers a wide variety of official merchandise where you are sure to find the ideal souvenir to commemorate your visit.
FLAMENCO SHOW
Show: 22:00, 24:00
Tickets: online table reservation
Show + Dinner: 43-99 EUR/person (depending on menu)
Getting there: Metro - Opera
Show: Monday-Friday 21:00, 22:30, Saturday-Sunday 20:30, 23:00
Tickets:
Show + Dinner: 60 EUR/person
Getting there: Metro - La Latina or Opera
CAFE DE CHINITAS
Show: Monday-Saturday 21:30, 1:30
Tickets: online table reservation
Show + Dinner: 65 EUR/person
Getting there: Metro - Santo Domingo
CORRAL DE LA PACHECA
Show: 22:30
Tickets: online table reservation
Show + Dinner: 75 EUR/person
Getting there: Metro - Cuzco
Getting there: AVE Train from Estación de Atocha station to Toeldo - 70 km, 30 minutes - 18 EUR/return
Opening hours: Monday-Saturday 10:30-18:00, Sunday 14:00-18:30
Tickets: 7 EUR/adult
Getting there: walking from the train station
Toledo Cathedral in Toledo, Spain, is ranked among the greatest Gothic structures in Europe. Inside, the cathedral contains important masterpieces including a spectacular baroque high altar and two paintings by El Greco.
Opening hours: March-15 October, 10:00-18:45, 15 October-February 10:00-17:45
Tickets: 2,3 EUR/adult
Audio guide: 4 EUR
Getting there: walking from the train station
Dating from the 14th century and featuring a fine Mudéjar tower, Santo Tomé in Toledo is best known for housing El Greco's most famous painting, The Burial of Count Orgaz.
Getting there: Train "C8" from Estación de Atocha station to El Escorial - 45 km, 1 hour - 6,55 EUR/return
REAL MONASTERIO DE SAN LORENZO DE EL ESCORIAL
Opening hours:
Royal Monastery and Royal Palace: October-March, Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-17:00, April-September, Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-18:00, Monday closed
Garden: October-March, Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-18:00, April-September,
Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-19:00, Monday closed
Tickets:
Royal Monastery + Royal Palace: 8 EUR/person
Bourbon aparments: 3,6 EUR/person
Combined ticket (El Escorial + Valle de los Caídos): 11 EUR/person
Getting there: walking from the train station and Funicular - 1,5 EUR oneway, 2,5 EUR return
Named a World Heritage Site, the Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial was the political centre of Philip II's empire. The complex comprises the Royal Palace, a monastery for monks, a magnificent library, and a large basilica with cenotaphs of the king himself and his father, Charles I. Almost all the kings of Spain are buried in the Kings' Pantheon. It conserves an important collection of paintings by Van der Weyden, el Greco, Tintoretto, Veronés and Velázquez.
VALLE DE LOS CAÍDOS (Valley of the Fallen)
Opening hours: 10:00-16:30/17:30
Tickets: 5 EUR/person
Combined ticket (El Escorial + Valle de los Caídos): 11 EUR/person
Getting there: from El Escorial (Plaza de la Virgen de Gracia) Bus Nr. 660 to Valle de Cuelgamuros
The Valle de los Caídos (Valley of the Fallen) is a monumental memorial in the municipality of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, erected at Cuelgamuros Valley in the Sierra de Guadarrama, near Madrid, conceived by Spanish dictator Francisco Franco to honor those who fell during the Spanish Civil War.
Getting there: Train "C3" from Estación de Atocha station to Aranjuez - 47 km, 1 hour - 6,55 EUR/return
Opening hours:
Garden: October-March, Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-18:30/19:30, April-September,
Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-20:30/21:30, Monday closed
Tickets: 5 EUR/adult, 2,5 EUR/child
Free entrance for EU citizens every Wednesday.
Getting there: walking from the train station
The Palacio Real de Aranjuez is a residence of the King of Spain. The huge gardens of palace, built to relieve its royal residents from the dust and drought of the Spanish meseta using the waters of the adjacent Tagus and Jarama rivers, are Spain's most important of the Habsburg period. The rooms of the palace are decorated and furnished in a style befitting the rank of its occupants, with valuable tapestries, furniture, porcelain, clocks, pictures and objets d'art. Particularly notable features are the magnificent staircase designed by Giacomo Bonavia, the Chapel Royal (by Sabatini), the velvet-clad Throne Room and above all the Porcelain Room.
Getting there: Train from Estación de Atocha station to Segovia - 90 km, 1 hour - 18 EUR/return
AQUEDUCT
The Aqueduct of Segovia is one of the most significant and best-preserved monuments left by the Romans on the Iberian Peninsula. The aqueduct was built at the end of the 1st century AD without the use of mortar or cement, at a time when the Roman Empire was at its largest extent and covered most of the then discovered world. The aqueduct is 813 meters long and raises to a maximum height of 28,5 meters above the Plaza del Azoguejo. It is made of granite rocks and consists of 166 arches and 120 pillars arranged in two levels.
Opening hours: April-September 10:00-19:00, October-March 10:00-18:00
Tickets:
Alcazar: 4 EUR/adult, 3 EUR/child
Tower of Juan II: 2 EUR/person
Free entrance for EU citizens 3rd Tuesday of every month.
Getting there: Bus Nr. 8 from train station
The Alcázar of Segovia is a stone fortification, located in the old city of Segovia. Rising out on a rocky crag above the confluence of the rivers Eresma and Clamores near the Guadarrama mountains, it is one of the most distinctive castle-palaces in Spain by virtue of its shape - like the bow of a ship. The Alcázar was originally built as a fortress but has served as a royal palace, a state prison, a Royal Artillery College and a military academy since then.
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