Park · Madrid, Spain

Parque del Retiro

125 hectares of former royal garden with a glass palace in the middle and rowing boats on the lake.

Parque del Retiro is in Madrid, and this is Madrid — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 580 km across and 210 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. Relief from GMTED2010 (USGS) and ETOPO1 (NOAA), public domain. The full map →

Give it 2 hours · Open year-round · 40.415°N, -3.683°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

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Journeys that stop here

The Iberian Circle

Two countries, one peninsula, no flights

23 days

The record

What this atlas holds about Parque del Retiro, and nothing it does not.

Kind: Park
Give it: 2 hours
Season: Open year-round
Where: 40.415°N, -3.683°E
In: Madrid