Madrid
9 attractions
Madrid is a stop on 2 slow-travel rail routes in this guide. Here is what to see and how to reach each sight on foot from the station.
Attractions in Madrid
Museo del Prado
Velázquez, Goya and Bosch under one roof — free the last two hours.
🚶 14 minNavigate 🧭
Royal Palace of Madrid
Europe’s largest working royal palace, 3,000 rooms of frescoes above the Manzanares.
🚶 12 minNavigate 🧭
Plaza Mayor & Mercado de San Miguel
Arcaded square opening onto an iron-and-glass hall of oyster and croqueta stalls.
🚶 4 minNavigate 🧭
Templo de Debod
An actual Egyptian temple, gifted to Spain, mirrored in a pool at sunset over the Casa de Campo.
🚶 19 minNavigate 🧭
Gran Vía & Metrópolis
Madrid’s Broadway of 1910s facades, crowned by the winged-Victory dome of the Metrópolis.
🚶 5 minNavigate 🧭
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
The third point of the ‘art triangle’, eight centuries from Holbein to Hopper in one collection.
🚶 10 minNavigate 🧭
