Photos Madrid/Spain

cityskyscrapers · #1 Posted **Mar 13, 2007, 10:15 PM**

All photos: 9-12 March 2007.

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2. Puerta de Europa (the two slanted towers at the left) and the four new skyscrapers.

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4. Amposta district, part of city district San Blas.

5. Covered market hall of Amposta/San Blas.

6. Universidad district in the city center.

7. Sunday market El Rastro.

8. Plaza del Campino del Mundo Nuevo at El Rastro, where youths exchange collector cards, mostly Magic cards.

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12. Sunday afternoon in Parque del Buen Retiro.

13. Retiro: Monumento a Alfonso XII.

14. Retiro: Palacio de Cristal.

15. San Pascual district, part of city district Cuidad Lineal.

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19. Shopping street Calle de Alcalá in Quintana district, part of city district Cuidad Lineal.

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23. Valdeacederas district, part of city district Tetuán.

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28. Universidad district in the city center with in the background part of Edificio España, a skyscraper of 117 meter built in 1953.

JivecitySTL · #2 Posted **Mar 13, 2007, 10:46 PM**

AMAZING. I'll be there next month!

ratbear · #3 Posted **Mar 13, 2007, 10:50 PM**

Love Madrid! I have wanted to go back since I visited in 2001.

Jularc · #4 Posted **Mar 13, 2007, 10:54 PM**

Wow these photos are so good! Madrid is a wonderful city.

PDX City-State · #5 Posted **Mar 14, 2007, 6:42 AM**

Es obvio que eres de Madrid. Si no vivieras alli, por supuesto no conocerias el barrio Tetuan. Echo muchisimo de menos Madrid. Es la hostia.

crisp444 · #6 Posted **Mar 15, 2007, 4:44 AM**

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Originally Posted by PDX City-State

Es obvio que eres de Madrid. Si no vivieras alli, por supuesto no conocerias el barrio Tetuan. Echo muchisimo de menos Madrid. Es la hostia.

Haha "la hostia" - that's something you really don't hear outside of Spain. You must have lived there as well.

Anyways, I was more surprised that the tour covered Pueblo Nuevo / Ciudad Lineal than Valdeacederas / Tetuán. Lots of tourists seem to go up there by Plaza de Castilla nowadays because the towers are being built a little north of there. Pueblo Nuevo though... that's a little out of the way and even I don't know it that well. I was quite impressed with not only the pictures but with the accurate labeling of the districts and neighborhoods. Again, nice pics!!

excel · #7 Posted **Mar 14, 2007, 7:29 AM**

Wow great pics, dont see many of Madrid.

crisp444 · #8 Posted **Mar 14, 2007, 4:46 PM**

Thank you very much for the photos! I used to live here:

... and go here on Sunday mornings:

city dweller · #9 Posted **Mar 14, 2007, 11:03 PM**

Awesome thread - awesome city. I visited last summer and the place blew me away. I was surprised by how arid the area surrounding the city was. The palacio de cristal is incredible.

This one's my favorite (the combination of the old woman sitting outside her 1-story house and the huge skyscrapers off in the distance, with a foreboding way about them, makes the pic really work:

gatt · #10 Posted **Mar 14, 2007, 11:06 PM**

the streets looks very busy.good job!

mthq · #11 Posted **Mar 15, 2007, 7:46 AM**

intense. Can't wait to get my buns there.

SHiRO · #12 Posted **Mar 15, 2007, 11:16 AM**

Amazing pics!