Local Madrid
Archeological Museum: Atapuerca-Alhambra
The National Archaeological Museum (Museo Arqueológico Nacional-MAN) was born in 1867 to host the most valuable remains of the past found in Spanish ground. The present set up recovers that purpose. Where shall we start from? Visiting the MAN is a vertiginous walk...
Descalzas Reales, a convent for princesses
Madrid Original ®’s private guided tour to the Descalzas Reales monastery will highlight the value of the works of art preserved within the convent’s walls. The paintings and sculptures in their original locations will reveal all their religious symbolism...
Royal Academy, school of artists
The Museum of the Fine Arts Royal Academy of Saint Ferdinand exhibits the collection of the academic institution where, for instance, Goya taught and Picasso took lessons. As this institution existed even before the Prado, works of Art expropriated (for instance, to...
La Encarnación, treasure in stone
Madrid Original ®’s private guided visit to the Encarnación monastery will highlight the value of the works of art preserved within the convent’s walls. The paintings and sculptures in their original locations will reveal all their religious symbolism and...
Lazaro Galdiano Museum: a luxury collection
The Lázaro Galdiano Museum is a little gem held in a Neo-Renaissance palace in aristocratic quarter “Barrio de Salamanca”. The collection housed in this palace was gathered by the couple formed by exquisite Spanish editor José Lázaro Galdiano and...
Walkway by Manzanares waterfront
Madrid Rio is an integral Project to restore the riverfront nature and urban landscape in a part of Manzanares river. Thus, Madrid has recovered part of the historic site, with monuments of all kinds (gates, bridges, fountains, gardens) and periods (from 16th to 21st...
Museum of Romanticism: flashback to 19th c.
Fall 2009: After 8 years of reforms, Madrid recovered its Romantic Museum, renamed National Museum of Romanticism. Its new name revealed its new mission: helping the visitor travel to the very heart of 19th century. More than any other 1800s cultural movements,...
Medieval Madrid: how it all began
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...
Salamanca-Recoletos: Madrid’s first bourgeois neighborhood
Of all the 19th century neighborhoods of Engineer Castro’s Extension Plan for Madrid, Salamanca-Recoletos is the most accomplished. From its very beginning, it became the favorite residential area of the bourgeoisie. Palaces, churches, convents, museums and a...
Lavapiés: a working-class neighborhood through centuries
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
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...FB
Madrid Original - Visitas guiadas
Visitas guiadas y paseos guiados privados en Madrid y alrededores con licenciados en historia del arte.
