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FURTHER AFIELD

Several of Madrid’s best sights, including some de Salamanca. The districts around Old Madrid,
interesting but little-known museums, lie especially Malasaña and La Latina, offer a more
outside the city centre. The axis of modern typically authentic madrileño atmosphere. On
Madrid is the Paseo de la Castellana, a long, Sundays, some of the old streets are crowded
wide avenue lined by skyscraper offices and with bargain hunters at the sprawling second-
busy with traffic. A journey along it gives a hand market, El Rastro. If you need to escape
glimpse of Madrid as Spain’s commercial from the bustle of the city for a while, west
and administrative capital. La Castellana of Old Madrid, across the Río Manzanares, is
skirts the Barrio de Salamanca, an upmarket Madrid’s vast, green recreation ground, the
district of stylish boutiques, named after the Casa de Campo, with its pleas ant pine woods,
19th-century aristocrat who built it, the Marquis boating lake, amusement park and zoo.

Sights at a Glance
Historic Buildings Streets, Squares and Parks Key
6 Templo de Debod 1 El Rastro Madrid city centre
9 Palacio de Liria 2 La Latina Parks and open spaces
y Real Fábrica de Tapices 3 Plaza de la Paja
Churches and Convents 4 Casa de Campo Motorway
0 Malasaña
5 Ermita de San Antonio r Paseo de la Castellana Major road
de la Florida t Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas Minor road
Museums and Galleries u Parque de El Capricho
7 Museo de América
8 Museo Cerralbo
q Museo de Historia de Madrid
w Museo Sorolla
e Museo Lázaro Galdiano 0 kilometres 2
0 miles 1

A2
Sights Outside the City Centre Burgos Aeropuerto
CALLE DE BRAVO MURILLO M30
Segovia PASEO DE LA CASTELLANA
El Escorial CALLE DE JOAQUIN COSTA AV D A DE AMERICA

SERRANO Aeropuerto
M500
DE CALLE DEL PRINCIPE DE VERGARA
CALLE ALCALA
M30
AVDA DE VALLADOL ID
CALLE DE LA PRINCESA
Manzanares
Principe G RAN VIA Recoletos DE
Pio CALLE PAZ
Sol
CAL LE MAYOR
A5 CALLE DEL DOCTOR ESQUERDO AVENIDA DE LA
CALLE DE TO L EDO CALLE DE ATOCHA CALLE DE ALFONSO XII
Badajoz
Atocha A3
Renfe
DE LA CABEZA
VIA CARPETANA M30 PASEO SANTA MARIA PASEO DE LAS DELICIAS CALLE DE MENDEZ ALVARO Estación M30 Valencia
PASEO IMPERIAL
Sur
Toledo
AVDA DE LA CIUDAD DE BARCELONA
Detail of the Plaza de Toros, with its ornate tilework decoration For keys to symbols see back flap
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