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It is the most beautiful and best-decorated set of all known me theaters - the sky of Madrid./ Alexandre Dumas /Once upon a time there was the market, and on holidays spent bullfight. Community center of the city should be priglyadnym - so,...
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From journal Madrid and Its Surroundings
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The Plaza Mayor, a grand arcaded square in the center of Madrid is very popular with tourists and locals alike. It is a place that we gravitated to repeatedly when we were in Madrid. The symmetrical rectangular square features a uniform...
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From journal Madrid- More Highlights
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This huge square was initially built between 1617 and 1620 at the request of King Felipe II. After a terrible fire, it was totally redesigned in 1790. Here there are some shops, a lot of cafés and restaurants, and a tourist office.
From journal Madrid
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Plaza Mayor dates back to 1620 when it was completed under the order of Felipe III, whose statue dominates the center of the square. After a series of fires, modifications completed in 1853 resulted in the structure that exists today. Once the sight...
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From journal Madrid From Kilometer Zero
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Madrid has a lot of architectural styles and Plaza Mayor is one of the bright representatives of Madrid of the Hapsburgs (de los Austrias as they are called in Spanish) -– the Spanish variation of Italian Renaissance. Other examples of Madrid of the...
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From journal Travels to Spain - Madrid, Part III
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Very nice place to go in X-mas time, nice X-mas decorations, some home-made, "nacimientos", jokes for "Dìa de Los Santos Inocentes" (28th Dec), similar to "April Fool's Day."
There are very nice bars around to have a typical "bocadillo de...
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From journal Madrid de Tapas
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A square with life and with a soul. It's the place where everyone is drawn to... because it's in the heart of madrid, because its frescos are of suc beauty that one can't keep away from them, because it's large and everyone meets there... and also...
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From journal small & big wonders of Madrid
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Austere and grand, this 17th-century arcaded square in the heart of Old Madrid is an attraction in itself with its baroque architecture and eye-catching kaleidoscopic-coloured murals.
Once the sight of bullfights, public burnings of heretics,...
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From journal Madrid, the city that never sleeps
What Others Are Saying About Plaza Mayor:
- The Attraction
- Lovely. - qype.co.uk
- The Attraction
- What a lovely place. - qype.co.uk
- The Attraction
- This was a very grim place. - full attraction review at Yahoo! Travel
- The Attraction
- Calm and excellent place - full attraction review at Yahoo! Travel
- The Value
- Some places have great prices others do not. - full attraction review at Yahoo! Travel
- The Value
- The cafes are pretty stupidly expensive - qype.co.uk
- The Views
- I like the atmosphere and the view. - full attraction review at Yahoo! Travel
- The Views
- Madrid doesn’t have a nice river like Paris...that’s what... - qype.co.uk