• Prado Museum
  

  
  The Museo del Prado is the main Spanish national art museum. One of the finest art collections in the world. It includes many different collections: the Spanish (El Greco, Velázquez, and Goya), the Flemish and Dutch (Rubens, van Dyck, and Brueghel), Italian (Botticelli, Tintoretto, Titian, Caravaggio, and Veronese) and German (Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, and Baldung Grien).
  
  

• Royal Palace of Madrid
  

  
  The Palacio Real de Madrid is the official residence of the Spanish Royal Family at the city of Madrid, but is only used for state ceremonies.
  
  

• Reina Sofía Art Museum
  

  
  The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía is Spain's national museum of 20th century art, mostly Spanish. Highlights of the museum include excellent collections of Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Juan Gris and Joan Miró. Certainly the most famous masterpiece in the museum is Picasso's Guernica.
  
  

• Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
  

  
  The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum contains a large art collection including masterpieces by Monet, Goya, Degas, Renoir, Van Gogh, Picasso, Mondrian, Bacon and Lichtenstein
  
  

• Puerta del Sol
  

  
  Puerta del Sol is the heart of Madrid and one of the busiest places in the city, a favorite meeting spot for locals, a visible area for festivals or political demonstrations, and a opportune location for tour guides and street performers
  
  

• Plaza Mayor
  

  
  Perhaps the best known plaza in Madrid, this impressive square is now one of the main stops on any tourist visit. Originally built outside the city walls, this enclosed square has played host to bullfights, markets, symphonies, tournaments and executions. Today it is ringed with tourist shops, cafes and restaurants. The statue of Philip III sits in the middle across from the Casa de la Panadería, a beautifully painted building with two towers on the north side of the square
  
  

• Caixa Forum Museum
  

  
  CaixaForum is a private museum of contemporary art and culture that is particularly well-known for the "vertical garden" by Patrick Blanc installed on a wall in front of the museum, as well as the quite special architecture of the building itself. The vertical garden can be seen from the street outside, just a block south of the Thyssen-Bornemisza and across from the Prado.
  
  

• Gran Vía
  

  
  Gran Vía is an ornate and upscale shopping street located in central Madrid. Now, the street is known as the Spanish Broadway, and is one of the streets with more nightlife in Europe. It is known as the street that never sleeps.
  
  

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