Posts with category Madrid Turismo
For a while now, several wineries located around Madrid have been opening their doors to wine lovers. This is the perfect excuse for a quick excursion topped with a wonderful meal at the winery itself. The El Regajal winery in Aranjuez, to the south of Madrid, is a great place to visit after seeing the splendid Royal Palace located in the same town. Read full article
Spring and autumn are two great times of year to visit Aranjuez in its charming Strawberry Train. However, summer is also a season that falls for the charm of this royal site, the old summer residence of the Bourbon family up until Queen Isabel II discovered the beaches in Northern Spain.
The Aranjuez Royal Palace is a must-see, Read full article
On penalties and in the last second, but Real Madrid won’t care as they won their eleventh European Cup, the undécima as their fans know it, beating city rivals and perennial sufferers Atlético Madrid for the second time in three years in the final of this competition. Therefore, now is a great time to visit the Santiago Bernabéu stadium to see all the glory brought to Real Madrid by club legend and manager Zinedine Zidane, Read full article
The inhabitants of Lavapiés are fearful of gentrification, the process in which a deprived district, such as Chueca back in the day, becomes a place full of modern and cool shops and bars in just a few years. Is this what is going to happen in the charismatic and multiethnic district of Lavapiés? What’s going to happen to the squares filled with children playing football, Read full article
Tired of walking around the streets of Madrid? It’s the time to visit San Lorenzo de El Escorial, the perfect day trip and a comfortable one if you do it with a guided tour.
Leaving Madrid in the morning, you can get to this town outside the city in less than an hour. San Lorenzo de El Escorial was where the court of King Felipe II used to be, Read full article
Madrid dresses up for the festive period and what better way to enjoy the city’s splendour than from an open-top double-decker bus, also known as the Christmas Bus or Navibus. The service runs from the 3rd of December to the 5th of January and the itinerary starts at Plaza Colón (on Calle Serrano, 30, in front of Jardines del Descubrimiento) and moves along Calle Serrano towards the city’s most emblematic spots, Read full article
Aranjuez’s old town and its monuments, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, is just 30 miles from Madrid and, since 1851, linked to the Spanish capital by a railway known as the Strawberry Train (El Tren de la Fresa), the second railway line that existed in Spain and a symbol of the arrival of industrialisation. Read full article
Felipe II was the first Spanish monarch to move to this location in the mountains outside Madrid for the summer. He stayed in the solemn yet sober monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, where he died in 1598, inaugurating a tradition that his successors followed without exception: that their mortal remains rested in peace in the room known as El Pudridero (the “rotter”). Read full article
They are there waiting for us, around the corner, a stone’s throw on a regional train. Let’s forget about asphalt for a while and enjoy autumn and all of its intensity and mystery: mushrooms that, with all the proper information, can bring us a great family time that is later rewarded on the dinner table. Read full article
