Free Madrid Landmarks Tour - New City

Witness the push of both Madrid and Spain to become a more modern country, and how it transformed itself from the end of a decaying empire to today’s modern democracy.

Observe how the new Frenchified order seeks to enlighten the new city with the rays of reason, as you walk around the very symbolically-charged new urbanism, heavily influenced by the classical period. See the French king’s use of the rich cultural heritage (which was inherited from the Austrian kings) with the creation of museums and academies, which today translates to the famous Art Triangle. It’s here where in only a few hundred meters apart you have three of the most important art galleries in the world: The Prado Nacional Museum, The Reina Sofia and the Nacional Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza. Visit the fountains in which Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid celebrate their numerous titles.

Cross La Puerta del Sol (The Gate of the Sun), centre of the city, the beginning of all roads in Spain, and a symbol of the new enlightened order from where Charles III would pronounce the sentence that would guide his entire reign: “Everything for the people, but without the people.”