The City

  Madrid is the capital city of Spain, located in the center of the Iberian Peninsula. Because of this strategic position, Madrid is the crossroad for almost everything in Spain: National and multinational companies, historic-artistic monuments, concerts, exhibitions, flamenco, festivals and popular parties...
Madrid has also a remarkable collection of museums and galleries, beautiful parks and gardens and a wild nightlife. In short, a very lively and exciting city, with a high level of safeties and humanity.

  The most exciting street is La Gran Vía, but the Plaza Mayor is the true heart of Madrid. One of the greatest art galleries in the world, the Museo del Prado, exhibits mainly Spanish, Flemish and Italian art from the 15th to 19th century. Goya is well represented and you'll find a wealth of paintings by Diego Velázquez. If you haven't run out of steam after the Prado, the Casón del buen Retiro houses an excellent collection of 19th-century Spanish art. For one of the best art history lesson you'll ever get, check out the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, a private assembly of paintings from Titian to Pollock. The "Museo de la Escultura Abstracta", has an interesting collection of abstracts by some of Spain's better known modern sculptors, including Chillida and Miró.
The beautiful Real Jardín Botánico, near the Prado, is a good spot to recover from an art overdose.
For the little bit of interior decorator in everyone, the Palacio Real, with some of the most elaborately decorated walls and ceilings imaginable. The Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Almudena, opened to the public in 1.992 after only 110 year under construction.

Puerta de Alcalá - Madrid