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Travel guides, landmarks and museums in Madrid: what to see and do.

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the monastery of el escorial seen from the friars’ garden, a huge grey granite building with the basilica dome, corner towers and slate roofs, the low-hedged garden in front and a lawn with bare trees in the foreground
Monuments & landmarks

The Monastery of El Escorial: Philip II’s palace-convent, fifty kilometres from Madrid

9 min read
the main façade of the liria palace in madrid, long and sand-coloured, with columns, balustrades and statues on the roof, behind a lawn and a large cedar
Monuments & landmarks

The Liria Palace: the Dukes of Alba’s home in Madrid, burned in 1936 and open daily since 2019

8 min read
a long room in the royal collections gallery, with a pale beamed ceiling, portraits, tapestries and landscapes on dark walls, display cases with armour and velazquez’s white horse at the far end
Museums & masterpieces

The Royal Collections Gallery: the museum of the kings of Spain, dug in below the Royal Palace

7 min read
the façade of the royal palace of madrid on the plaza de la armeria, in pale stone, with the columns, the clock and the spanish flag in the centre and the large paved square in front
Monuments & landmarks

The Royal Palace of Madrid: the largest royal palace in Western Europe, where the king does not live

8 min read
young knight in a landscape by carpaccio, a boy in armour standing in a flowering meadow, with a horseman and a castle in the background and birds in the sky
Museums & masterpieces

The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum: two barons’ collection, with the painters the Prado lacks

9 min read
las meninas by velazquez, with the infanta margarita in the centre, her maids of honour around her, the painter on the left before a large canvas, a dog lying in the foreground and a bright mirror on the back wall
Museums & masterpieces

The Prado Museum: eight works to see, from Las Meninas to Goya’s Saturn

10 min read
Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid
Museums & masterpieces

Reina Sofia Museum: 9 works to discover contemporary art in Madrid (updated 2026)

20 min read
The Crystal Palace in El Retiro Park, Madrid
Monuments & landmarks

El Retiro Park in Madrid: the green lung between the Crystal Palace and history (updated 2026)

7 min read