The ministry of telecommunications - this thing is a post office. Madrileños jokingly call it “Our lady of telecommunications.”
Entrance to El Parque del Buen Retiro
Alcalá
Monumento Alfonso XII
El Palacio Real (left) and El Catedral Nuestra Señora De La Almudena (center)
El Palacio Real from Los Jardines del Sabatini
Atop the front entrance to El Palacio Real
Catedral Nuestra Señora De La Almudena
Valle de los Caidos- Franco's monument to Fascism's victory over Democracy/Communism. Monument, Basilica, and Monastery all in one.
Entrance to the cavernous Basilica built inside the mountain. We went while Sunday mass was going. It was enormous inside, and the monks' singing and prayers sounded beautiful. The whole site was built over 30 years by maltreated Republican prisoners. Buried inside the walls and floor are the remains of over 30,000 who died in the Spanish civil war.
One of the distant stations of the cross.
El Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial - built by Felipe II in the 16th century. It's huge: 11 miles of hallways inside, with a functioning monastery and school for 1,200. All of the Spanish kings and queens have been buried here in el Tumbo de los Reyes. Also houses the second most important Catholic library in the world.
Plaza Mayor, Madrid
El Palacio Real
