Visitas guiadas y cursos en Madrid y alrededores

History

Medieval Madrid: how it all began

Medieval Madrid: how it all began

Experience:

Madrid Original ® proposal for a guided tour through Medieval Madrid consists in a 2-hours walked tour from the old walls of the 9th century Islamic fortress to the 15th century palaces facing Alvaro de Bazán’s statue. We would see religious and civil...
Lavapiés: a working-class neighborhood through centuries

Lavapiés: a working-class neighborhood through centuries

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The neighborhood of Lavapiés was historically the proletarian neighborhood of Madrid, even long before the first factories appeared in late 18th century with a first wave of the Industrial Revolution. It played, therefore, a very relevant part in the social, economic...
Maravillas or Malasaña: a two-faced neighborhood

Maravillas or Malasaña: a two-faced neighborhood

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The east-end of the “Barrio de Universidad” is what is popularly known as Malasaña, at least, since the 1980’s. Before that, the area was generally referred to as Maravillas, because of the old convent that still stands in its very heart. The whole...
Conde Duque: monks, soldiers and students

Conde Duque: monks, soldiers and students

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Conde Duque is, roughly speaking, half of the “Barrio de Universidad”, one of the neighborhoods within Madrid’s Central District of Madrid . Because of its La zona de la ciudad popularmente llamada barrio del Conde Duque es la mitad occidental del...
Museo del Traje: the dress of History

Museo del Traje: the dress of History

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Place:

If our clothes say a lot about us, the history of garment is our history. Let’s focus on our past in a different way, through Madrid’s Museo del Traje (Garment Museum). From the sociological point of view –for the amount of information on a society provided by...
The “Capricho” of Osuna: rococo and romantic garden

The “Capricho” of Osuna: rococo and romantic garden

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“Capricho”, the Spanish word for caprice or capriccio, is often used in the artistic context to designate an eccentricity of any kind, but most particularly musical or architectural. In gardens, it may refer to a specific spot, such a fancy building or a...
Letras: bohemian and literary Madrid

Letras: bohemian and literary Madrid

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From its very origins in 16th century, the “Barrio de las Letras” (literally, “Neighborhood of Letters”) was associated with theater and related activities. Golden Age writers fixed their residences around the theaters where they expected to achieve success and passed...
Justice around Chueca: an area of contrasts

Justice around Chueca: an area of contrasts

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The neighborhood of Justicia (literally, Justice, because of The Supreme Court of Justice) has always been an area of contrasts: born as an industrial area in 18th century, it became aristocratic in the 19th; later, from being a conservative neighborhood around the...
El Escorial: the pride of the Habsburgs

El Escorial: the pride of the Habsburgs

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El Escorial, more than a palace or a monastery, was since the beginning a monument, actually an architectural complex built and decorated to commemorate a victory (Saint Quentin), to pay a filial tribute from Phillip II to Charles V and to serve as symbol of the...
El Pardo, a hunter’s palace

El Pardo, a hunter’s palace

Experience:

El Pardo was in the beginning a Royal Hunting Ground, but today History is the biggest game you can hunt. Residence of Charles V, Phillipe II, Charles III, Ferdinand VII, Franco…. there are traces of all them: architectures, paintings, tapestry, furniture are...