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History in Madrid

Madrid, Spain's capital, layers its history across a wide range of sites. The Convent of Las Descalzas Reales and the Church of San Ginés de Arlés reflect the city's deep religious heritage, while Castillo Nuevo de Manzanares El Real speaks to the medieval architecture of the surrounding region. The Colegio Mayor de San Ildefonso and the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Conde Duque connect threads of civic and academic history. El Retiro Park and El Capricho Park preserve traces of aristocratic landscape design, Estación de Atocha marks the industrial era, and the Faro de Moncloa together with AZCA illustrate Madrid's twentieth-century urban development.

50 places · Madrid, Spain · Editorially curated