DID YOU KNOW?
Museums in Madrid are free after 19:00
Our second day in Madrid was a rainy day – which meant it was the perfect day to visit museums! Madrid has an entire street dedicated to art museums called El Paseo del Arte. There are four major museums worth noting: Museo del Prado, Museo Reina Sofía, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, and CaixaForum. Continue reading “Rainy Days Call For Museum Dates”
TRANSPORTATION:
Airport to Atocha Renfe
Express Bus (Yellow) One-Way: €5
Travel Time: 40 minutes
Cash only
One of my friends and I arrived to Madrid early in the morning (we took the evening flight from JFK). Our other friend was planning on joining us on our last day in Madrid so we were on our own for the first two days. I found an Airbnb fairly close to the Atocha Renfe train station since we were planning to take the train to Sevilla from Madrid and it just so happened to work out that it was also a bus stop for the Express bus from the airport! Continue reading “Welcome to Madrid!”
I have always wanted to visit Spain ever since I was interested in architecture as a child (I went through a period of being obsessed over flying buttresses, which flourished during the Gothic period). Spain is known for its myriad of pure Gothic cathedrals in the north and Islamic architecture in the south. Even in my 10th grade Spanish class, we learned about the history of Spain, about Catalunya, and Andalucía with its Islamic influence. Continue reading “Bienvenido a España”
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