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* [http://goo.gl/kIWFnL Museo Naval de Madrid].
 
* [http://goo.gl/kIWFnL Museo Naval de Madrid].
 
* [http://goo.gl/wMwSLp Casa museo de Lope de Vega] (upon reservation/free).
 
* [http://goo.gl/wMwSLp Casa museo de Lope de Vega] (upon reservation/free).
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* Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
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* [http://www.realacademiabellasartessanfernando.com/ Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando].
 
* [http://museosorolla.mcu.es/ Museo Sorolla].
 
* [http://museosorolla.mcu.es/ Museo Sorolla].
 
* [http://www.flg.es/ Museo de la Fundación Lázaro Galdiano].
 
* [http://www.flg.es/ Museo de la Fundación Lázaro Galdiano].

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Madrid

Madrid is the capital of Spain and of the eponymous autonomous community.

The satellite view below show the extent of the city center from the Palacio Real on the left to el Retiro on the right. Cutting the city in two like a river, the aptly named calle Mayor meets with the Puerta del sol after it grazed by the imposing Plaza mayor (another gigantic depletion in the layout of roofs after Sol itself), and continues afterwards now as the never ending calle de Alcala through the famous Cibeles. Less visible although much bigger, this pattern is repeated by the Gran Via in a northern branch of a Y. The two meet, again like two rivers, at a dull point overlooked by the Victoria Alada of the Metropolis building. The actual river, the Manzanares, grazes the western part of the city as it falls from the mountains, in the distant north.

Madrid-satellite.jpg

Neighbourhoods

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The neighbourhoods of the center of Madrid:
  1. Sol
  2. Palacio
  3. Embajadores
  4. Cortes
  5. Justicia
  6. Universidad

See also, the Center of Madrid:

and in a browsable Google Map:

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Mayrit

Madrid was funded by the muslims. It was then known as Mayrit, and was protected by walls circling what is today the neighbourhood of Palacio.

Elena-Mayrit.jpg

Links

Pictures

  • La Mariblanca as if impatient in front of the reloj de Losada en la Puerta del Sol.

  • Elena and Tizón en la Plaza Mayor.

  • Sunrise over the Plaza Mayor.

  • Artists en la calle Arenal.

  • La Plaza de Toros.

  • El Manzanares in Madrid.

  • Blossoming trees in the park La Quinta de los Molinos.

  • Cutting a slice of grouper in the Mercado de la Cebada.

  • The lights of la Gran Vía (on a day that was not that of the beast).

  • Although with the Telefonica building, it seems the devil does live in Madrid.

  • The crowded calle Preciados, by night.

Places of Interest

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Plaza Mayor

This is the central square of Madrid and, in a way, of Spain as a whole. Most cities have their Plaza Mayor, With Salamanca ranking second for its specimen of importance and notability.

Starting 1 January (2014), we live in Plaza Mayor, on the side of the Casa de la Panadería.

El Retiro

El Retiro is the west end of historical Madrid (nowadays surrounded from the further side by geometrical formations from modern urban planning). The name of this district comes from the famous park del Buen Retiro (of the good retreat).

One everybody's favourite of the park is the monument to the Fallen Angel, that depicts the Milton's inspired fall of the brightest amidst the host of Angels.

Know then, that, after Lucifer from Heaven
(So call him, brighter once amidst the host
Of Angels, than that star the stars among,)
Fell with his flaming legions through the deep
Into his place [...]

Fp.laussy.jpg I like the work because of its ambiguity. The angel is represented as beautiful, while the fall itself is gripping, it seems eternal, never ending, always happening, a real kick from God. There is no angle that seems adequate, the statue falls in all the directions. I use it since 29 December (2013) as the decoration of my social network portals (google+, twitter, YouTube) as an acclaim to this equivocation that allows both satanic sects and devout catholics to both praise and despise the work: as a faithful representation of the Bible or as a tribute to the occult, the evil, the perdition.

Museums

The main three venues:

  • El Prado
  • Reina Sofia
  • Thyssen

Together they form the so-called Paseo del Arte..

Other museums

Others

  • Iglesia de la Santa Cruz [1], [2].

That can be seen together:

Links

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