Visit bars. Really, the bars,...
by MarkLA
Visit bars. Really, the bars, many with their amazing tile work, are fantastic places to soak up Madrid vibes. This being Spain, they are open really, really late and don't get hot until after midnight. The pic is of Los Gabrieles (Metro Sevilla), a former brothel completely covered in fantastic hand painted tiles. If you can't make it to the Prado (possible because you've been enjoying the bars a little too much), you can see at great reproduction of Velaquez's The Drunkards here at this bar.
Marce/April - La Semana Santa
by Danalia
The semana Santa is one of the biggest parades in spain. I have seen many of them in different cities, I liked the one in Malaga and the one in Sevilla, and the Madrid one is impressive as well.
During a week , the parades presents Jesus Cristo and many religious images with heavy chains, men ans women with no shoes, with chains as well, walking around town.
The parade start at the Plaza mayor and ends at the Basilique de Nuestra Seniora del Buen Consejo ( The Seniora of the good advice)
SEGOVIA
San Ildefonso de la...
by davidcross
SEGOVIA
San Ildefonso de la Granja - sometimes described as the Spanish Versailles. Seems fair enough because I do not like Versailles and I was far from smitten with the house here. Moreover the fountains for which it is famous struck me as monumentally dreadful.
HOWEVER it is well worth the short bus ride - which is pleasant in itself - for the location and the trees. Black squirrels very much in evidence,
Todo sobre Madrid
by Lorro about Fortunata - La Tienda de Madrid
Named after the famous book "Fortunata y Jacinta" by Benito Perez Galdos which is one of the reference points of Spanish literature. The book takes place in the areas around the Plaza Mayor in the end of the 19th century.
This little shop is dedicated to Madrid, its got interesting plates, magnets etc decorated with the tiles of Madrid's streets. There are lots of books as well (most in Spanish) that are dedicated to stories of Madrid, novels which take place here and history books. A great little shop to get a unique gift from Madrid. Books about Madrid, tiles, ceramic plates and mugs decorated with street names, phrases from Don Quixote, and turn of the century advertisements.
After El Sol
by agarcia about After Sun
As the name of this after-hours state, Aftersun is the place to go when El Sol closes its doors... at the unthinkable early hour of 6AM. This is a dive bar, of the worst kind you're likely to find in Madrid, so don't get me wrong: I'm not heading you to a glamorous and cool nightclub when you can have a drink surrounded by the crème of Madrilian nightlife. But the music is probably the BEST you're going to find at this hours, and the local crowd, though a little bit scary, is quite fun nonetheless.
Anyway, as a particularly accurate verse from one of my favourite groups says: "Is the lack of love what fills up the bars"... Those words always came to my mind whenever I’m at Aftersun ;-) Honestly, at 8AM nobody cares about the state of your dress :-p
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