Madrid
Madrid
+ Madrid
Sights
* Basilica de San Francisco El Grande
* Basilica de San Miguel
* Botín
* Calle de Serrano
* Casa de América
* Casa Museo de Lope de Vega
* Casa de la Villa
* Casón del Buen Retiro
* Catedral de San Isidro
* Centro Cultural Conde Duque
* Convento de las Carboneras
* Ermita de San Antonio de la Florida
* Estadio Santiago Bernabéu (Bernabéu Stadium)
* Iglesia de las Calatravas
* Iglesia de San Andrés Apóstol
* Iglesia de San Marcos
* Iglesia y Convento de las Trinitarias
* Mercado de San Miguel
* Monasterio de la Encarnación
* Museo Arqueológico Nacional
* Museo Nacional de Antropología
* Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas
* Museo De La Real Academia De Bellas Artes De San Fernando
* Museo Cerralbo
* Museo Chicote
* Museo del Ejército
* Museo Naval
* Museo Romántico
* Palacio de Comunicaciones
* Palacio de las Cortes
* The Paseos
* Plaza de la Cibeles
* Plaza de Toros de las Ventas
* Puerta del Sol
* Puerta de Toledo
* El Rastro (Rastro Flea Market)
* Real Fábrica de Tapices
* Real Jardín Botánico
* Teleférico
* Telefónica
Excursions
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Walk/Drive
Food&Drink
In The Know
Did You Know?
( Worth Seeing )
This would be dull were it not for the quirky objects on display. School children rush to the ghoulish Room III, to the left of the main entrance, to see the skeleton of the Gigante Extremeño, Spain's tallest man. Agustín Luengo Capilla, who died in 1849, aged 26, was an astonishing 2.35m tall. Most of the building is devoted to tribal relics: big gods and little gods, wooden shields and dug-out canoes. Other schoolboy favourites include Brazilian feathered head-dresses and gruesome shrunken heads dangling in a glass case.
Address: Calle Alfonso XII 68
Phone: 91 530 64 18, 91 539 59 95
Open: Tue-Sat 10-7.30, Sun and public hols 10-2
Restaurant: Plenty near by (Inexpensive)
Metro: Atocha, Atocha RENFE
Accessible: Few
Admission: Cheap
Other: Real Fábrica de Tapices
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