Things to do in Madrid once in a lifetime

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Ephemeral love walks through the capital

Ephemeral love walks through the capital

1. Appear under the rainbow T4 . Lose half a kilo walking through its gleaming corridors to the exit.

two. Tempt the cervical sprain by observing the resplendent giants that are the four towers . Regret that none of them have a viewpoint to be closer to the clouds.

3. Check that the skyscrapers they gain in beauty with distance and that, from a distance, even give a feeling of loneliness, isolated gigantism and melancholy.

Four. wonder how it is Kio towers don't fall.

5. Doubt if he John Charles I it is a park with statues or some statues with a park. Get over it with a super yankee picnic on your lawn.

6.**Flirt with whomever you touch** among the romantic ruins, hermitages, flowerbeds and small lakes that populate the Caprice Park . Note that whatever the day, the time of year and the time is always beautiful.

The Caprice Park

The Caprice Park

7. Honor, walking through the Castellana , to those buildings that pretended to be modern and that today rest disorderly in that robot graveyard that is AZCA.

8. Argue with a taxi driver.

9. Try to understand how the Tour of the Bernabeu It is one of the most visited museums in Spain, going up its elevators, going down to its changing rooms and reminiscing about old Meringona deeds on its screens.

10. Learn about the avant-garde and extravagance at the DiverXo table.

eleven. Dig at night and find the main myths and legends of this city stumbling through Malasaña. miss the move although it has not been lived in the own meats and pupils.

David Muñoz and the pigs with wings

David Muñoz and the pigs with wings

12. Say hello to the girl San Ildefonso Square . Lean next to the student fish street . In between, try to try all the gin and tonics that come through the doors and not die trying.

13. toast with some yayos or vermouth in any of the mythical taverns in this neighborhood or, sacralized and occupied by modernity.

14. Banish any prejudice behind a crazy night in Chueca.

fifteen. Take a break from it all by looking up and discover the blue sky above the buildings.

16. zigzag down or along streets such as Conde Duque, Corredera Baja de San Pablo or Fuencarral, sidewalks with more character and encouragement than any presumptuous avenue.

17. Reconnect with the real cinema by Martin of the Heroes.

18 . Look out at what seems like the end of the world but find another half city. Or what is the same, leave the temple of Debod behind to grab onto the railing and fantasize that all of this, one day, "will be mine."

Sunset at the Temple of Debod

Sunset at the Temple of Debod

19. Open the doors of Saint Anthony of Florida to meet a whole sky painted with Goya frescoes.

twenty. Practice ** old tourism (and with views) ** riding on the Cableway while one wonders what happened to the Moncloa lighthouse?

twenty-one. Stroll through the post-apocalyptic and abandoned roads of the Cottage . Circumambulate the lake remembering the good Sunday years while raffling the cyclists of the green ring.

22. Bring back years of life and childhood memories in the enchanting Madrid Amusement Park . Overcome vertigo from the top of the Shuttle , enjoy the unique views of Madrid and end up bragging that you have survived the mythical Haunted house.

23. Miss Chu-Lin (the famous panda bear) while walking the winding paths of the zoo.

24. Note that Madrid is a city of kings and presumptuous, walking, statue by statue, through the Plaza de Oriente and the Sabatini Gardens.

Royal Palace Madrid

The Royal Palace of Madrid, a real treasure

25. Visit the Royal Palace with the expectation of meeting Letizia (or Leonor) behind a door. Coming face to face with reality while enjoying the impressive rooms where the collection of Stradivarius nor the pictures of Velázquez, Ribera or Caravaggio.

26. Lamenting the missed opportunity Almudena Cathedral.

27.Go down to the primitive walls of the city while listening to the famous legend of **why the people of Madrid are known as 'cats'**.

28. Dress up to enjoy an opera at the Teatro Real.

29. Compare Callao with Times Square And don't make it sound crazy. The schweppes neon is the most beautiful in the world. And point.

30.Swallow with the wonderful eclecticism of shops, buildings and pedestrians of the wonderful Gran Via . Even so, longing for mythical spaces like the Madrid Rock or the Palace of Music.

31 . Find a little hole in the Center to browse a book and have some churros in the same street: San Gines.

The Alczar brothers

The Alcazar brothers

32. Meet someone under the bear and the strawberry tree.

33. fantasize about a New Year's Eve in the crowded Puerta del Sol but without Ramón García and his cape.

3. 4. Join the guiri fauna through the Cava Baja , the Arco de Cuchilleros and the arcades of the Plaza Mayor.

35. Gobble down a ‘relaxing’ squid sandwich.

36. Gathering, with posture and posture, in the Círculo de Bellas Artes, in the Café Gijón or in the reserved armchairs of the Cock.

37. Reveal the existence of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, one of the most complete museums and with less press in the city.

Meet someone under the bear and the strawberry tree

Meet someone under the bear and the strawberry tree

38. Conclude that the most amazing corner of the world is Gran Vía with Alcalá. Or what is the same, the metropolis building.

39. Losing a family member during Christmas in the center . Or during Sales.

40. Take the mythical photo of the Cibeles with the Puerta de Alcalá in the background. 41. Search for the ghost of the Casa de América and discover that the Town Hall is an entertaining place, with various exhibitions and even a viewpoint on its roof.

42. Sanctify the terraces, whatever the weather.

43. Comply with the script and pose in front of the Puerta de Alcalá.

44. Sunday in retirement , between the small puppet theaters and the street musicians.

Four. Five. Rent a boat on the pond and take a nap under the watchful eye of the statue of Alfonso XII, the capital's particular tartlet.

Madrid La Nuit the abec of clubbing in the capital

Madrid La Nuit: the ABC of clubbing in the capital

46. die of love before him crystal Palace where everything is made by and for romanticism: ducks, pond and waterfall.

47. Dodge runners while enjoying other corners of the park such as the statue to the fallen angel, the memory forest or the carriage ride.

48. Approaching the Las Ventas bullring and try to separate its beautiful neo-Mozarabic continent from its controversial use.

49. Mature with a Brunch as an excuse.

fifty. Lean on the kilometric chamfers of the Neighborhood of salamanca . Walk the Golden Mile while drooling at the shop windows.

51. Give the National Archaeological Museum a second chance, one of the most interesting museum renovations in recent years.

52. Turn the es's before the c's into jacks as you proudly walk down the shaft Castellana-Recoletos-Prado . And long live the eJque and the wiJki !

53. Survive a summer on your asphalt, with the "There is no beach here" and the manual of good Rodríguez as companions.

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54. Identify the Thyssen as the perfect cultural plan. Discover that it not only has exhibitions, but also an essential permanent collection.

55. Joke by tying yourself to a tree on the Paseo.

56. Isolate yourself from any Madrilenian entering the Meadow .

57. Undress the clothed maja and dress the naked maja . Lower libido with a whirlwind through black paints. Find the thousands of plans they have 'Las Meninas' and, in short, take advantage of being in front of one of the best art galleries in the world.

58. Try to watch it during the two hours a day that is free. But in conditions, nothing of _ Bande à Part _.

59. Strutting around the Jerónimos area, a candidate for World Heritage status and a civilized redoubt in the city.

60. Dying of heat in Avenue of America , go down to the center of the earth in Cuatro Caminos and make a pilgrimage through the corridors of Núñez de Balboa. Or what is the same, live the adventure of the Madrid Metro.

61. Alternate by Tirso and Antón Martín while singing Sabina's songs.

62. Compose the entire poem while going back orchards street , leaving behind nightclubs for tourists, vintage karaoke bars and even the possible tomb of Cervantes.

63.** Drowning on Sunday among the temples and bars of La Latina **.

Alternative ways to Latinize

Alternative ways to Latinize

64. Learn that Madrid has other 'cathedrals' overlooking the Collegiate Church of San Isidro Yet the Church of Saint Francis the Great.

65. Glorify the 'chulapismo' and the verbena in the Vistillas.

66. Studying the cheerful idiosyncrasy of Madrid for a whole morning at **el Rastro**.

67. Sublimate art in small museums that are worth a visit like the Sorolla, Lázaro Galdeano or Cerralbo. Take advantage of the occasion to see how the nobles and bourgeois have lived in the city throughout the Centuries.

68 . Get up thanks to the transparent elevators of the Reina Sofía. Take advantage of the entrance to get excited before the Guernika have fun before dali and get lost among the new trends shown by the Nouvel building.

69. Pass through Atocha without having to take a train to greet Antonio López's big heads and the turtles that populate the tropical garden of the old ship.

70. Continue with industrial tourism among the locomotives and wagons of the Railway Museum. Yearning for initiatives such as the Motor Market.

71. Travel the world without leaving Lavapiés giving an opportunity to the most authentic restaurants of the most exotic foods.

72.Take off your hat to what has been done with the Slaughterhouse , the perfect space for design, theater and culture in general.

73. Recover the Manzanares by taking a bike ride through Madrid Río, overcoming iconic footbridges, playful fountains and centennial bridges.

74.Invest in the theater, whether it be big in a musical plan on the Gran Vía, small in the micro-theatres or fun in a Price Circus.

75. Venerate the work of foundations by visiting spaces such as the Casa Encendida, the Fundación Mapfre or the Caixa Fórum, probably the most architecturally fun building in the capital.

76. Take a safari through the outskirts to meet the indescribable prisms of Sanchinarro, the disturbing silhouette of the Caja Mágica or the sculpture by Manolo Valdés in the Parque Lineal del Manzanares.

77. Say goodbye to the sun and the city on the Cerro del Tío Pío (aka Park of the Seven Tits), the most mythical and nostalgic sunset in the city.

Park of the Seven Tits of Vallecas

Park of the Seven Tits of Vallecas

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