Madrid attractions on the map

Here, a private literary club will become the site of a specific struggle for membership and elected office.

The garden will link the neighborhood’s theatrical life to a love story that became a posthumous legend.

This stop will show how one accidental obstruction changed the outcome of a carefully prepared assassination attempt.

Here it will be necessary to distinguish what is known about Cervantes’s burial from what researchers were unable to prove.

The bookstalls conclude the route with the story of how temporary trade acquired a permanent address.

The greenhouse will let us discuss whom the imperial exhibition regarded as an exhibit.

The monument by the water reveals the cost of a competition, ambition, and a long wait.

You will trace how a promise to a young queen survived a long construction project, but had changed by the time of her burial.

The house shifts the conversation from the playwright's fame to a family loss whose trace ended up in the museum inventory.

Madrid's ceremonial center will become the site of the Republic's last internal clash.

The route will end at the balcony from which the king had to answer the demands of the assembled city.

The finale will move the dispute over the right to vote from a cultural society into a parliamentary chamber under arms.

Here it will become clear what it cost the city to gain the open space in front of the theater.

Here, a market square becomes an open courtroom where a confession saves a life but takes away property and freedom.

Here, the museum’s history begins not with paintings, but with an empty science cabinet and a posthumous portrait.

The circular roadway will show how urban planning can become part of a political crime.

Here it will become clear why converging streets turned a city crossroads into the site of the first mass resistance.

This stop shows how a book warehouse became the long-awaited home of scholars.

The garden archive turns scientific drawings into a story of evacuation and return.

The church will link court ritual with the oath that one man made, broke, and repeated.

This stage introduces the route's story of actresses fighting for their livelihood and profession.

Nearest audio-route stop: Puerta de Alcalá — 10 m in a straight line, route Prado, El Retiro and “Landscape of Light”

Nearest audio-route stop: Glass Palace — 70 m in a straight line, route Prado, El Retiro and “Landscape of Light”

Nearest audio-route stop: Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid — 110 m in a straight line, route Prado, El Retiro and “Landscape of Light”

Nearest audio-route stop: Puerta del Sol — 150 m in a straight line, route Madrid of Kings and Citizens

Nearest audio-route stop: San Jerónimo el Real Church — 10 m in a straight line, route Prado, El Retiro and “Landscape of Light”

Nearest audio-route stop: Calle Mayor — 140 m in a straight line, route Madrid of Kings and Citizens

Nearest audio-route stop: Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid — 80 m in a straight line, route Prado, El Retiro and “Landscape of Light”

Nearest audio-route stop: Puerta del Sol — 130 m in a straight line, route Madrid of Kings and Citizens

Nearest audio-route stop: Plaza de las Cortes — 90 m in a straight line, route Barrio de las Letras: Writers, the Stage, and the Right to Speak

Nearest audio-route stop: Plaza Mayor — 10 m in a straight line, route Madrid of Kings and Citizens

Nearest audio-route stop: San Jerónimo el Real Church — 110 m in a straight line, route Prado, El Retiro and “Landscape of Light”

Nearest audio-route stop: Prado Museum — 70 m in a straight line, route Prado, El Retiro and “Landscape of Light”

Nearest audio-route stop: Plaza de la Armería and the Royal Palace of Madrid — 150 m in a straight line, route Madrid of Kings and Citizens

Nearest audio-route stop: Plaza de Cibeles — 100 m in a straight line, route Prado, El Retiro and “Landscape of Light”

Nearest audio-route stop: La Almudena Cathedral — 140 m in a straight line, route Madrid of Kings and Citizens

Nearest audio-route stop: Plaza de Cibeles — 140 m in a straight line, route Prado, El Retiro and “Landscape of Light”

Nearest audio-route stop: Cuesta de Moyano — 90 m in a straight line, route Prado, El Retiro and “Landscape of Light”

Nearest audio-route stop: Plaza de Cibeles — 20 m in a straight line, route Prado, El Retiro and “Landscape of Light”

Nearest audio-route stop: Puerta de Alcalá — 20 m in a straight line, route Prado, El Retiro and “Landscape of Light”

Nearest audio-route stop: Plaza de Santa Ana — 40 m in a straight line, route Barrio de las Letras: Writers, the Stage, and the Right to Speak

Nearest audio-route stop: Cuesta de Moyano — 140 m in a straight line, route Prado, El Retiro and “Landscape of Light”

Nearest audio-route stop: Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid — 40 m in a straight line, route Prado, El Retiro and “Landscape of Light”

Nearest audio-route stop: La Almudena Cathedral — 90 m in a straight line, route Madrid of Kings and Citizens

Nearest audio-route stop: Prado Museum — 100 m in a straight line, route Prado, El Retiro and “Landscape of Light”

Nearest audio-route stop: Plaza de la Armería and the Royal Palace of Madrid — 100 m in a straight line, route Madrid of Kings and Citizens

Nearest audio-route stop: Royal Academy of History — 90 m in a straight line, route Barrio de las Letras: Writers, the Stage, and the Right to Speak

Nearest audio-route stop: Plaza Mayor — 140 m in a straight line, route Madrid of Kings and Citizens