Must-see attractions + guide for one-day trip to Madrid

Madrid is a Spanish city and the capital of Spain. The city here is full of modernity, but what is more desirable is the history of Madrid. Among them, Picasso’s paintings are still worth visiting. This kind of abstract art His works make people dream anew. Here I will share with you the must-visit attractions and travel notes for a one-day trip to Madrid. 1. Royal Palace of Madrid

The third largest royal palace in Europe, well-preserved and beautifully decorated, with a strong imprint of the times

Tickets

Ordinary ticket: 10 euros, reduced price Ticket: 5 euros

Free admission: from Monday to Thursday, two hours before closing

Opening hours

10:00-18:00 (October to March of the following year); 10:00-20:00 (April to September)

Closed days: January 1st, 6th, April 22nd, and 5th each year The museum is closed on November 1st, October 12th, November 9th, December 24th, 25th and 31st. In addition, it is closed when official events are held. What impressed me most is that there is no guide.

It says free admission before closing. The staff said that free visits are the rights of the European Union. Asians don't have it. The problem is that this explanation cannot be found in the venue! I also asked when this rule came into existence.

I think it may have just been implemented. As a result, people say it has always been like this!

Almost all Western palaces are must-visit places for tourists. I originally didn’t have much interest in Western culture, but because I like Madrid, Real Madrid, and the Bernabeu, I love the house and the U.S. I feel that I must go to the palace. I think Madrid is the best place to have fun. I get off the plane and go directly to the hotel I booked. The hotel is not far from the Puerta del Sol and not far from the Royal Palace. They are all within walking distance. It is also very close to the subway station. The hotel is called a hostel. You can make a reservation through Woda.com. The subway in Madrid is also very convenient. A daily ticket can travel for a whole day, which is very economical and not tiring. Several of the attractions we visited can be reached by taking the subway. Let’s come back and talk about the palace. It is very luxurious inside. We rented a Chinese guide and listened to the explanation along the way. We visited very carefully. This requires tickets. I booked two tickets online before going. It is very convenient. You can enter directly by putting the QR code on your phone. It’s not for nothing that Madrid is incredible. It was the hottest time, with a high temperature of 39 degrees, but our enthusiasm for visiting was still very high. The palace has a square structure and is magnificent in appearance. There are countless gold and silver vessels, paintings, porcelain, tapestries and other royal supplies inside the palace. It is a representative cultural relic of Bourbon and one of the best among the royal palaces in Europe. Now, the palace has been turned into a museum. What makes me most proud is that there are many Chinese elements in it. The palace is very big, and it takes quite a while to walk around it. You can also visit the armory, but the place is very strict and tight for photography, so I didn’t leave too many photos.

Madrid is a lively but a bit dirty city. The major squares are a bit dark, and the ground has a bit of a coal city feel. However, the Royal Palace of Madrid is not bad and worth a visit. Ages 16 to 25 You can buy half ticket. Meeting a scammer in Madrid proved that I don’t have enough life experience. The sun was shining brightly at 5 or 6 pm at the end of July. My daughter and I went back to rest to avoid the peak sun. We went out refreshed at 7 pm. When we were crossing the road on our way back at 8 pm, we met two white men on the opposite side who were very well-dressed. The man was in his 40s and the woman was in her 20s. They pretended to be tourists. They walked past us a little bit and then came back and asked if there was any Chinese food nearby. Then they said they had been to Beijing and Shanghai, China. Occasionally they said something in Chinese that was not fluent, and they looked harmless. Asked about China’s exchange rate, he smiled and pointed to a boutique store just a stone’s throw away and told them to take us in. Because we wanted to maintain the friendly image of the Chinese people, my daughter and I kept smiling and answered. The woman didn’t know what she had told her daughter. What took her to the front, the man kept asking about the exchange rate, occasionally saying a word or two in Chinese, and finally said that he wanted to see what the RMB was like, because there were cameras everywhere in the boutique, so I took out my wallet and took out a 100 I showed him a look, and he rambled on about the exchange rate. At the same time, he took out the 100 euros in his wallet and took the money in my wallet, which seemed to be how many euros and renminbi. I became alert when I saw my money, and he immediately took the money. Put it in my wallet. I immediately put the wallet in my bag and looked for my daughter nervously. He was very friendly and took me there. After looking for my daughter, they asked me about her wallet. We said no, but I felt something was wrong along the way. After a few minutes, I thought of checking the money in the supermarket, and sure enough, the 300 euros were gone. I never figured out how he took the money so quickly. Although there were cameras in the store, the police had to take action. It was already late, and there was another one the next day. We set off to Barcelona early in the morning. There were very few staff in Spain who knew English. After thinking about it, I decided not to go. There are so many scammers out there. 2. Retiro Park

There is a statue of a fallen angel in the park, one of the few devil statues in the world

Tickets

Free, cruise 45 minutes/4 euros

Opening hours

6:00-24:00 (May-September); 6:00-23:00 (October-Thursday of the following year) Month)

When I first heard about Rechi Park, I always felt like a big Shanghai... Only when I arrived did I realize that the characteristics of each park scenic spot are different. I love the glass house the most, it is really beautiful.

Retiro Park is the largest and most beautiful royal garden in Madrid. It is now the favorite leisure and entertainment place for the people of Madrid. The pools, fountains, gardens, sculptures, and lawns here are all very beautiful. Boating and picnicking are the most common forms of leisure here. You can’t miss it when you come to Madrid. It’s really comfortable to go boating on the lake and see the beautiful scenery and people around you. The last time I went there, I went through a customized tour company. From insurance, air tickets, hotels, to itinerary, transportation, attraction tickets, etc., everything would be taken care of for you. We will also provide you with an electronic tour guide.

Overseas, all navigations are in Chinese! The round-the-clock remote help is so considerate. Even if you don’t understand the language, you only need to take a photo or send a voice message to translate it. !The name is also very cute, called Frog Journey.

It takes ten minutes to walk from the apartment where we live to Retiro Park. It is an open attraction and no tickets are required.

The park is large and has two artificial lakes. The large artificial lake can be used for boating, but few people play in winter. There are many green plants and flowers in the garden, especially trees of various shapes, which are suitable for taking various beautiful photos.

Like other attractions in Spain, various sculptures are also indispensable.

The Glass Palace is undoubtedly the most beautiful scenery in the park. The surroundings and dome are made of glass, which is particularly transparent. There are many carvings and brightly colored murals on the columns of the outer walls.

There are some mandarin ducks and turtles in the artificial lake in front of the Glass Palace, bringing life to this place.

What impressed me most was that I visited an indoor furniture exhibition. The strange-shaped furniture in it seemed not to be used by people, but just as works of art for people to appreciate. The tour lasted 2 hours. 3. Santiago Bernabeu Stadium

The home stadium of the Spanish football club Real Madrid, one of the most famous football stadiums in the world

Tickets

Sports game tickets

Tickets for La Liga, Champions League, Copa del Rey and other events can be purchased on Real Madrid’s Chinese official website, or at the stadium ticket office (gate 42). Ticket prices will vary greatly depending on the level of the event and the seats selected, ranging from more than a dozen euros to several hundred euros. For details, please refer to the official website.

Tickets for the Bernabeu Tour (stadium tour)

Tickets can be purchased at the Bernabeu Tour or at the ticket office at Gate 7 of the stadium.

Adult tickets are 19 euros; children under 14 years old are 14 euros.

About Club Members

After becoming a member of Real Madrid Club, you can enjoy priority purchase of game tickets and discounts, and you can register on the Real Madrid global membership registration page.

Opening hours

The stadium is open to the public every day except December 25th and January 1st.

The opening hours on non-match days are 10:00-19:00; on public holidays, the opening hours are 10:30-18:30.

On game days, full tours will be available until 5 hours before each game. Thereafter, until 3 hours before the start of the game, you can only visit the best club area of ??the historical exhibition hall, the Di Stefano Memorial area, the trophy exhibition area and the stadium panoramic exhibition area. Santiago Bernabéu Stadium (English: Santiago

Bernabéu

Stadium) is the home stadium of Real Madrid Football Club and a UEFA five-star football stadium. Although I am not a qualified football fan, visiting the stadium in Madrid is the most important place in the itinerary. The subway in Madrid is very easy to ride. Just get off line 10 at Santiago

Bernabéu. When I saw the name of this station when I went there, I transliterated it as Bernabéu, and I felt inexplicably excited. I didn't even get a good night's sleep the night before. You have also booked your e-ticket online in advance and can go directly to Area B to enter. Visitors can directly enter the top-level visiting area through the escalator and can directly overlook the entire Bernabeu Stadium. Unfortunately, the grass of the stadium was being renovated and maintained that day. The entire stadium was now a khaki color, but it could not hide the grandeur of the stadium. The stadium records the glory of Real Madrid and various trophies. I believe fans who like Real Madrid will love this place. In addition to visiting the stands, you can also visit the players' tunnel, rostrum, bench, players' rest area, etc. The stadium is very user-friendly and the passage up and down from the stands is very regular. It's a pity that I didn't watch a Real Madrid game during the offseason. I look forward to next time.

Although I am a Barcelona fan, I really have to obey the Bernabeu. The stadium tour is better than Camp Nou, and the San Siro is completely incomparable. The tourist experience is too good.

Enter from the museum, from the introduction of the team's history to the trophy exhibition, to the pre-match lounge, the mixed gathering area of ??the press conference, and even sit on the chairs on the coaching bench and the bench, the route The arrangements are very reasonable to satisfy tourists' mentality.

I envy Real Madrid fans.

Recommended by a friend

I booked this trip in advance when I was in China. It was arranged by a self-guided travel customization company. They had travel experts who lived in the local area and planned the itinerary according to my requirements. There is also online help all day long. If I encounter a street sign that I can’t understand, I can take a photo and it will be translated for me. It's called Frog Journey.

4. Prado Museum

The museum with the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of Spanish paintings, especially Goya's works

Tickets

General admission 14 Euros, purchased in advance at the ticket office or online; 23 euros for a pass plus museum explanation, purchased in advance at the ticket office or online, 7 euros for EU citizens over 65 years old or youth card holders, and 20 euros for a double ticket per year.

Free admission: 18:00-20:00 (Monday-Saturday); 17:00-19:00 (Sunday and holidays); May 18 (International Museum Day), 10 November 12 (Spain National Day), November 19 (Prado Museum Day)

Opening hours

10:00-20:00 (Monday-Saturday);10 :00-19:00 (Sundays and holidays)

Closed on January 1st, May 1st, December 25th

December 24th, 31st, January 6, 10:00-14:00. Ticket sales stop 30 minutes before closing, and clearance starts 10 minutes in advance. You have to buy tickets in advance for a whole day to see the flowers.

The queues at scenic spots in Spain are scary, so be careful not to take the wrong photo. There are rules to buy tickets. After booking your tickets online, you can go directly to the entrance security check. After entering, you can come out and go in again, but you have to tell the doorman and they will say yes.

And don’t take too long to come back in a short time. All museums are like this. It is divided into permanent exhibition halls and temporary special exhibition halls. Some special exhibition halls require separate tickets. When booking online, you should ask clearly when booking online. Buy the most comprehensive and expensive one.

When I went there, it happened to be a special exhibition at Bosch. I cried. The whole life series.

The Prado Museum is considered one of the greatest museums in the world. The usual ticket is 16 euros, Monday to Saturday 18:00-20:00, Sunday and holidays 17:00-19: 00 is the free visiting time, but the visiting content only includes permanent exhibitions. For people like us who don’t know much about this aspect, it’s enough to see.

Our free tour time that day started at 18:00. Because there were really many people going to visit, we really had to line up at 5 o'clock. We planned to arrive at 5 o'clock, but it was too late. When we got there at half past three, there was already a long queue. Fortunately, once the opening time came, the first batch of people were let out very quickly, and then the speed started to slow down. So if we queued there at 5 o'clock, the first batch would definitely be able to get in. We missed it and had to wait for a long time. Time just goes in.

But as other people’s travel notes have said, it doesn’t matter how long you wait in line in Spain. Why? Because there are so many handsome guys, one on the left and one on the right, and you can grab one with each hand as you come and go. Just look at it and you will be in line

Every backpack with a size of 40x40 or above must be stored inside. It is really interesting inside. People who don’t understand art will find it shocking, just because of physical strength. , we also came out after a brief tour, so we didn’t rent a tour guide. 5. Puerta del Sol

There is a famous sculpture of a bear eating grapes, which is the city emblem of Madrid and one of the symbols of Madrid

Tickets

Free

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Opening hours

All day long This is a central point recognized throughout Spain. It is customary to have a statue of a figure in every square. The protagonist of the Puerta del Sol is Carlos III--

The best king in the minds of Madrid people, called "the greatest mayor". However, here his limelight was overshadowed by Strawberry Bear and Zero Point, and few tourists passing by paid attention to him.

There are relatively few people in the Puerta del Sol before 9 o'clock. The tour group activities are basically after 9 o'clock. If you want to take a photo alone with the strawberry bear, the emblem of Madrid, please remember to come before 9 o'clock. . The sculpture located in the corner of the square is really MIN.

Returning to Madrid from Toledo, the subway station is right at the Puerta del Sol. Puerta del Sol is located in the center of Madrid. It is a semicircle with ten streets extending radially outward. Puerta del Sol is the activity center of the citizens, with people coming and going and being bustling with people. There is a relatively simple circular flower bed in the center of the square, and some citizens and tourists sit on the edge to rest.

The sculpture of a bear eating grapes and the statue of Carlos III attract tourists to stop and take photos.

In front of a performing band holding an organ, violin and trumpet, there are always many people surrounding it. Whenever a show ends, the band members will hold their hats and collect money from tourists. Anyway, it is voluntary. You can give it if you want to, or it doesn't matter if you don't.

There are also some real sculpture performances in the square, and you must pay money to take photos with them.

The Puerta del Sol is also a commercial center. There are rows of commercial shops built around it. The ten streets radiating from the square are all commercial streets. The famous El Corte Inglés department store is nearby.

Four o'clock in the morning, still awake. Just get up, take a hot bath, make yourself a decent breakfast, drink coffee, and listen to the wind blowing the leaves outside the window.

Like a woman, I try on a few sets of clothes. When I am satisfied, I take the things I packed and go out. I expected the cold in Madrid, so the wind at six o'clock in the morning in Barcelona in winter blew on my body, which made me feel a little chilly.

There were people going out early in the morning and driving by in the wind. Winter does not pose many difficulties to people with ideals.

This may be the moment in my life that I need to grasp most, and I should cherish it. As I walked, I thought, after all, I have missed too many opportunities. If I come back again, I must cherish it.

I wanted to sleep on the train, but it was hard to fall asleep when I closed my eyes. I listened to the classical music played on the train and looked at the bright scenery outside the window, and I was a little moved for a moment.

The nameless person, for no other reason than a creature that doesn’t understand music, would be so fascinated by classical music.

Picasso's "Guernica"

I can't remember the first time I went to Madrid. Like many capitals, Madrid did not leave a great impression on me. Domestic tourists often ask me, how is Madrid? I give the same answer: except for museums and palaces, there is nothing in Madrid.

Reina Sofía Art Center in Madrid

This may be my bias. After all, during the few times I went there, it was either snowing in winter and extremely cold, or it was the dog days of summer. The ground temperature inside exceeded 40 degrees Celsius, which was surprisingly consistent with what I experienced when I went to Beijing. Once, I passed through Madrid without wanting to go in. After staying one night in the suburbs, I returned to the sunshine of the Mediterranean in Barcelona.

But I still remember the first time I went to Madrid. I accompanied my former domestic colleagues. We took the night train, so I have a poem to prove it,

"Night Train to Madrid"

The passing night

The stars falling in the fields

I don’t understand

The silence of the carriage

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It is a reflection of loneliness

Strangers are imprisoned

The gap of mutual protection

The paradox of talking freely

lies in Intimacy without a name

Travel is an affair of the heart

Like cars meeting each other

Each of them remains parallel

and forever The disjoint distance

whistled past

the increase

is nothing more than the noisy decibels

After wandering around Madrid, we almost I personally plan to visit Toledo, the former capital of Spain. In fact, it is not correct to say this. It mainly depends on whether you are on the side of the Visigoths and the Spanish Catholic Restoration Movement or on the side of the Muslim Caliphate. For the former, the former capital is naturally Toledo, while for the latter It's Córdoba.

As soon as we got off the train, we saw a mountain city surrounded by water on three sides. I had an inexplicable fondness for Toledo. We walked all the way around along the moat outside the mountain, like hiking up a mountain, and finally reached the center of the city from the back mountain.

Outer City of Toledo

At that time, Toledo did not have many Chinese tourists. All we saw were groups of gray-haired Japanese elderly people in Toledo’s main church. Pictured in front. But I always associate the shallow sunlight in front of the church here with the poem I wrote for my old friend, so I named it:

"Shallow Sunshine"

Flowers Fall After the Rain

Love disperses with the wind

A room for one person

It’s too big

It can’t fit in it

Lonely

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The moment you dripped

Silent

But like a birthmark

Imprinted on the land where I grew up

Gradual penetration

Genli

I said

Love is easy to deceive

You shake your head

Friends are not unforgivable

Betrayal

Night melts day’s disguise

The world of two people

It’s very small

The net is endless

Laughter

The sunshine through you in the afternoon

The sunshine in the bun

Shallow

Ten years ago

I gave my youth

to foster care

Now you give it to me

A valley of green fields

Toledo Ancient Alley

After Toledo, my former colleagues returned home, leaving me alone.

I decided to visit Segovia in Linda's book "Spanish Travel Notes".

In Segovia, I did not find the picture in their book of wandering painters painting for tourists under the interlacing sunlight and shadow.

On the contrary, what I remember most clearly is that I ate the most delicious pizza in a pizza shop when I was very hungry. I am still a loyal customer of this shop to this day.

The Roman Aqueduct in Segovia

It is probably like the Rambla Street in Barcelona written by Yu Qiuyu. Every time I walk by it, I don’t feel any deep melancholy, not even a little bit. There is no hypocritical compassion. It doesn’t matter, a trip is always related to a person, and a city is always connected to our own experience.

I didn’t regret that I didn’t go in to see the Royal Palace in Madrid. Apart from the classicism in oil paintings, I have always been disgusted with the symmetry, uniformity and meticulousness of classical architecture. The (neo)classical style naturally After Greece, they were highly sought after by totalitarians. This is true from ancient Rome to 19th century Paris, from London to Moscow, from France to Spain.

But the two museums in Madrid are my favorites. The Prado and the Sofiari collect the works of all Spanish painters that you recognize and know their names, whether it is hand-drawn sketches when they were young or ignorant, or It is a work of anger after the desolation of old age.

In the end, the train heading towards Madrid with confidence did not take me to the ideal destination.

Of course, why should we care about one or two inaccurate trains? After all, you don’t want to get on the "Snowpiercer" train that you will never get off.

A sculpture on the streets of Segovia