Start your holiday taking in Madrid's vibrant streetlife at Puerta del Sol square's pavement cafes. See European masterpieces at Paseo del Arte's world-class art galleries, then escape Madrid's holiday crowds in verdant Retiro Park's botanical gardens. If there's time during your holidays in Madrid, take a daytrip to medieval Toledo's mountaintop monuments.
On your holiday in Madrid, admire the Prado Museum's unrivalled Spanish art collection and gaze up at Picasso's Guernica in the Reina Sofia Art Museum. Then soak up Madrid's buzz on Plaza Mayor square, and stroll among buskers in green oasis Retiro Park on your Madrid holidays. Watch star-studded football at Real Madrid's Santiago Bernabéu Stadium.
Enjoy sophisticated cafe culture on your Madrid holiday on picturesque Plaza Santa Ana square. Join in the Madrid institution of bar-hopping in the Latina, Austrias and Sol districts, sampling different Spanish tapas snacks in each place. Try Madrid's innovative Spanish fusion dishes in the fashionable Malasaña area and Chueca's quirky hangouts. Splash out on Basque cuisine in the Salamanca district on holidays in Madrid.
The party starts late in Madrid, so begin with early evening drinks in Austrias' and Sol's historic bars on your holidays. Follow the midnight crowd to music-fuelled Malasaña or Lavapiés' area's slinky lounge bars. Head to cool gay quarter Chueca for hedonistic holidays in Madrid, and watch the sunrise from outside pulsating Huertas dance clubs.
Travel south-west from Madrid on your holiday to see medieval Toledo's synagogues, churches and mosques. Enjoy long holiday lunches in sleepy, tumbledown Chinchón with its pretty porticoed square. Visit 16th-century monastery-palace El Escorial, north-east of Madrid, the resting place of kings and queens of the Habsburg and Bourbon dynasties.
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