Trips · Square
Plaza del Dos de Mayo
The square Malasaña is organised around, and the clearest picture of how this city uses an evening.
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How to spend the day
Viewpoints with a correct hour, parks that are not sights, and the walks that explain a neighbourhood faster than a museum.
Trips
Trips · Viewpoint
Templo de Debod
A second-century BC Egyptian temple, given to Spain in 1968, with the best free sunset in the city.
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Trips · Flea market
El Rastro
Sunday morning, a thousand stalls running downhill, and a city-wide agreement to be slow afterwards.
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Trips · Park
Parque del Retiro
A former royal garden, public since 1868, and the city's shared back garden ever since.
RetiroMadrid
Trips · Riverside park
Madrid Río
A motorway buried underground and replaced with ten kilometres of park along the Manzanares.
ArganzuelaMadrid
Trips · Arts centre
Centro Cultural Conde Duque
An eighteenth-century barracks turned municipal arts centre, with a courtyard that hosts the summer programme.
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Trips · Neighbourhood
Chueca after work
The historic centre of queer Madrid, busy most nights, and the easiest place in the city to go out alone.
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Trips · Street
Gran Vía at night
Madrid's one piece of genuine spectacle, best at the hour the signs come on.
CentroMadrid
Trips · Park
Casa de Campo
Madrid's other park — five times the size of Central Park, and mostly scrubland and holm oaks.
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