Top sights/attractions in Madrid, Spain?

There are so many things worth seeing you could stay for months and not visit everything...

If you like museums...You have

MUSEO DEL PRADO

MUSEO THYSSEN

MUSEO REINA SOFÍA (modern art)

All within walking distance of each other...

There is a smaller museum dedicated to the painter Sorolla

A Military museum and a Natural Sciences Museum, and another contemporary art museum.

Near the Prado (just next to it) you have the Botanical Gardens

And El Parque del Retiro, with its lake is just behind El Prado...

Then you have the Palacio Real and the Almudena Cathedral (where the crown prince was married).

The Plaza Mayor (if you go on a sunday morning there is a street market with philatelists and others collectors items), there are small restaurants all around the plaza and on the lower level on the streets surrounding, great places for typical spanish food... La Cueva de Luis Candelas is the most reknowned.

On the Gran Via you have the chic shops, and at Callao there is a big department store called "El Corte Inglés", great for shopping. This is within walking distance to the City Hall building in La Puerta del Sol. And the little side streets in this area are interesting with lots of nice shops too. The main city hall is the beautiful building on the corner across from the Cibeles fountain. (it used to be the main post office andhase been refurbished and converted into the Ayuntamiento).

If your spanish is good there are plenty of theaters with excellent shows.

Then there is a fantastic zoo, and you have a Warner Bros. Theme park just on the outskirts of the city.

(Watch your purse and mobile phone, there are a lot of eastern european immigrants that have decided that Madrid is a great place to earn a living by purse-snatching. It's not really dangerous, but be careful anyway...)

Then you have nearby towns worth seeing...There is a beautiful palace in Aranjuez, the palace of San Lorenzo del Escorial, the whole of Toledo is magnificent, Segovia with the aqueduct. And many more.

If you want to take the sight seeing bus, you can get the tickets and start out from just across the street from the main entrance to El Prado museum. You can hoip on and off as you see fit, your ticket is valid all day.

The weather permitting, people in Spain have a tendency to go out in the evening for a tapa and a cool drink, you will find lots of places open until late with plenty of patrons. Enjoy the ambiance!

And enjoy your visit...Madrid is one of the loveliest cities in Europe!

Top Sights In Madrid

Plaza Mayor at night especially in the summer, they always have some sort of event or concert.

Museo del Prado which houses some of the most famous works of art in the world (Goya, Greco, Velazquez---top spanish painter's works to see)

Queen Sofia's Museo of art--- PICASSO's work is housed here!!!

I always had fun at the Museo de Cera (wax museum)--- good history lesson

Make sure to get a bus pass around the city, it will take you anywhere and everywhere until 10 o'clock (i think) i would go with MADRID VISION--its a big red bus you cant miss the stops or the main office

***Madrid is a wonderful city and full of wonderful cultural experiences i only named a few of the amazing things to do there.

Lastly... EAT AT A TAPAS BAR!!!!!!

I've just come back from Madrid (I stayed there last weekend, from May 1st to May 3rd) and my top things to see are:

1. Prado Museum

2. Puerta del Sol Square

3. Buen Retiro Park

4. Rastro Market

5. Royal Palace

6. Restaurants along Carrera de San Jeronimo

Have fun! Madrid is wonderful!

6 times.

Some of the 'must sees' include

Museo del Prado

Museo Thyssen Bornemisza

Plaza Mayor

Puerta del Sol

Chueca...great buzzing area with restaurants and bars

Parque del Buen Retiro

If you google any of the above, you'll get the info on them

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