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Madrid, Spain

Things to do in Madrid

Everything in the Atlas for Madrid: places to see and things to do, in one list.

Museo del Prado

Velázquez, Goya and Bosch in a building designed as a natural history cabinet.

Museum · 3 hours

Reina Sofía

Guernica, in a former hospital, with the room it needs around it.

Museum · 2 hours

Parque del Retiro

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

Park · 2 hours

El Rastro

Sunday morning flea market down a hillside, unchanged in character for four centuries.

Market · 2 hours

La hora del vermut

Sunday, around one, house vermouth on tap with an olive and a siphon of soda — the most Madrid ninety minutes there is.

Food & table · low

This page exists because Madrid has at least 3 of them in the Atlas. Destinations with fewer do not have a page for this, on purpose — a facet with one or two entries is a heading with a list under it that you could have read in full on the page you came from. Back to Madrid.