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Dear, I finally made it^^ so i hope yo enjoy it!
We start from our start point: Atocha station, very centered in Madrid and it's where I start every day after going down of the train that takes me from home to Madrid.
Beleve it or not, this is also part of the station.....Inside, a lot of trains to evey part of Spain are taken, but also, there is place for this little show of splendid nature^__^
forget about the Graffitti, I thoguht I'd be interesting to show you one of the many mail boxes in Madrid, as it's a thing that it's different in every city of the world.
This busy Street is called Gran vía, the most important road in the downtown, it's ALWAYS full of people and cars, even at night.
the same place, from the apposite view.
If you walk down Gran vía, you can find places like this. the Metropolis building is property of "Metropolis Insurance, Inc". And it hs been the inspiration of many artist. Curiously, in that left side of the street, the círculo de Bellas Artes(Fine arts group) has it's headquarters.
Here, Cibeles Square "plaza de Cibeles" ,right after Gran Vía. This fountain is the symbol of Madrid. Sadly, everytime our local football team (Real Madrid) wins a championship, all the players stomps over the monument...-_-. I love this place.
this, walking a bit more, we can found buildings as this one...this is Madrid's Stock Market....
Oh almost forgot!!!!XD This may make you laugh! ( all indications of monuments are starting to look like this one)
this is "La Puerta de Alcalá", roughly translated as "Alcalá's Gate", another symbol of Madrid. In fact both Puerta de Alcalá and Cibeles can be shoot in one single photo from an speciphic point and it looks as if the fountain were under the Gate.
Ooooh, Callao Square. hehe, this place...I think it's the meeting place for almost all people who wants to go for a walk in the downtown. the big buindings are Stores.
Have you ever wondered how Underground is in Madrid? Here, a shoot from the inside...
...and the outside!
Famous Ventas bullring, the most important one in the country. I hate bullfighting, but the place is just beautiful.
Oh my, look at that temperature....it's, of course, wrong, but we can reach that and more in August.
A Neighboorhood under construction..this is the sight at my parent's place windows.
this is the "Army Museum" from the outside....^^ Lors of armors and ancient weapons there.
The Liria Palace, right in front of my jobplace. this used to be the residence of the Duchess of Alba, the person who holds the largest amount of noblity titles,( even more than the King), in the world!!
One modern part of Madrid... Plaza de Castilla ( no, not the japanese cakesXD).
"Plaza de España". there is a Don Quijote Statue here ( the same one that is copied in Tokyo's Parquespaña!), and many fountains^^ it's a great little park to be cool.
tha same place^^
Preciados Street, there used to be a very famouses department store here, but now there another one even bigger...in summer they place pieces of clothes in the top to protect people from the sunlight and hot.^^
This statue is one you can find very close to Liria. Randomness is coolXD
Let's end with my favourite park. Retiro Park. this is an example of the interest that Madrid got into Egyptian art around XVIIth and XIXth century...we also have a Egyptian Temple, but I didn't get photos of it, Tell me if you'd want to see it.
One of the main walks, I love this park, I'll just post every photo so you can see how wonderful it is.
Veleazquez's Palace
and that's all, I didn't get Royal Palace and many other places, but...^^u If you want to see them, just ask and let me see what can be done, ok?
I hope you enjoyed the trip;)
We start from our start point: Atocha station, very centered in Madrid and it's where I start every day after going down of the train that takes me from home to Madrid.
Beleve it or not, this is also part of the station.....Inside, a lot of trains to evey part of Spain are taken, but also, there is place for this little show of splendid nature^__^
forget about the Graffitti, I thoguht I'd be interesting to show you one of the many mail boxes in Madrid, as it's a thing that it's different in every city of the world.
This busy Street is called Gran vía, the most important road in the downtown, it's ALWAYS full of people and cars, even at night.
the same place, from the apposite view.
If you walk down Gran vía, you can find places like this. the Metropolis building is property of "Metropolis Insurance, Inc". And it hs been the inspiration of many artist. Curiously, in that left side of the street, the círculo de Bellas Artes(Fine arts group) has it's headquarters.
Here, Cibeles Square "plaza de Cibeles" ,right after Gran Vía. This fountain is the symbol of Madrid. Sadly, everytime our local football team (Real Madrid) wins a championship, all the players stomps over the monument...-_-. I love this place.
this, walking a bit more, we can found buildings as this one...this is Madrid's Stock Market....
Oh almost forgot!!!!XD This may make you laugh! ( all indications of monuments are starting to look like this one)
this is "La Puerta de Alcalá", roughly translated as "Alcalá's Gate", another symbol of Madrid. In fact both Puerta de Alcalá and Cibeles can be shoot in one single photo from an speciphic point and it looks as if the fountain were under the Gate.
Ooooh, Callao Square. hehe, this place...I think it's the meeting place for almost all people who wants to go for a walk in the downtown. the big buindings are Stores.
Have you ever wondered how Underground is in Madrid? Here, a shoot from the inside...
...and the outside!
Famous Ventas bullring, the most important one in the country. I hate bullfighting, but the place is just beautiful.
Oh my, look at that temperature....it's, of course, wrong, but we can reach that and more in August.
A Neighboorhood under construction..this is the sight at my parent's place windows.
this is the "Army Museum" from the outside....^^ Lors of armors and ancient weapons there.
The Liria Palace, right in front of my jobplace. this used to be the residence of the Duchess of Alba, the person who holds the largest amount of noblity titles,( even more than the King), in the world!!
One modern part of Madrid... Plaza de Castilla ( no, not the japanese cakesXD).
"Plaza de España". there is a Don Quijote Statue here ( the same one that is copied in Tokyo's Parquespaña!), and many fountains^^ it's a great little park to be cool.
tha same place^^
Preciados Street, there used to be a very famouses department store here, but now there another one even bigger...in summer they place pieces of clothes in the top to protect people from the sunlight and hot.^^
This statue is one you can find very close to Liria. Randomness is coolXD
Let's end with my favourite park. Retiro Park. this is an example of the interest that Madrid got into Egyptian art around XVIIth and XIXth century...we also have a Egyptian Temple, but I didn't get photos of it, Tell me if you'd want to see it.
One of the main walks, I love this park, I'll just post every photo so you can see how wonderful it is.
Veleazquez's Palace
and that's all, I didn't get Royal Palace and many other places, but...^^u If you want to see them, just ask and let me see what can be done, ok?
I hope you enjoyed the trip;)
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How nice would it be to meet up at the station under those tropical greens - I would probably get there early and be glad to wait for hours with a book.
Madrid is such a beautiful place - I can see a mix of traditional and modern structures and buildings, timelessly gorgeous. The metropolis building and the monument at Cibeles Square remind me of some famous paintings. Oh and the Ventas bullring! I could hear uproar and cheers just by looking at the building. I'd love to touch the rusty red wall once in my life.
Is Madrid that hot in Summer? 47C?! I felt like passing out last year when the area I live in went up to 37C. I hope it's not humid as well, 'cuz hotness and humidity just don't go along.
Liria - what a nice name for a palace. I would have called myself Liria instead of Lillithium if I had known it earlier.
I had an interesting conversation with the teachers at my school about Castilla the other day. According to their dictionary, カステラ is Sponge Cake, but it just doesn't look like sponge cake to me, so we searched for its origin. We found that カステラ cake might have come from either Spain or Portugal.
The picture of Preciados Street reminds me of my home country, a place where I have left for more than 10 years and visited only sparingly. I miss home, although I don't know whether or not it's still my home anymore.
I share your love for Retiro park. I would love to walk under the shades in that blinding sunlight, or sit along the river edge and enjoy the coolness of water.
Once again, thanks for opening up my eyes. I'm going to put Madrid in the list of must-go places that I'm determined to visit in my life. Thank you so so much. *bear hug*
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I have loved the Center of Madrid since I was a little girl. My family always went on Christmas time around there, what is all with lights, and a lot of stands with presents, joke articles and stuff it is VERY nice.
For your info, Madrid's typical breakfast is hot choco( veeeeeery dense choco) with churros ( wich is a sugary "bread", I'd define it more as a pasta.....imagine a pretzel, but soft and sweet and squeezyXD.
Retiro parks is just a wonderful place, it's called "Retiro" (Retirement) because Kings and wueens of the XVIIth Century builded it for Retire the summer time...it was not in the city then....and now it's in the centerXDDD
oh, here's antoher photo for you
One of the sweetest stores I've ever seen
Castilla is a place in Spain, and was the main Kingdom back at the time of the Discovery of America, it's a plain place with lots of interesting places to visit and a lot of important towns, very historic.
If you ever decide to come, here you have a place to stay^^ you could stay with us at home!
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Ah, outdoor-cooking fun! Best of all, it's energy savvy. :-)
Hot choco + churros for breakfast? I think I might suffer from an insulin shock. :-) I've seen churros before, in California, where I remember there were many Mexican restaurants. Never tried one, though.
Loved the pic of the sweet store! I don't eat sweet often, but I love browsing funky candy stores and cake shops. The little confectionaries are so exotic, elegant, and pretty.
Here's a pic of "Castilla"(カステラ) cake.
From http://www.shooken.com/
The ones that I've tried are too sweet to my taste - like a floury block of sugar. Most of the Japanese sweets are too sweet for me - perhaps it's because Japanese people like to eat their sweets with powdered green tea, which is intensely bitter.
Thank you very much for offering me a place to stay, sweetie. And if you ever decided to come visit Japan, you know who to call. :-)
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Retiro has not a river, It's a lake, with boats for rent^__^ I used to go with my grandfather when I was young. We also have a river, Manzanares (It comes from Manzano,apple tree, and I hate to translate all the names,XD but it's for everybody to understand, it could be called, roughly " the apple tree field river"), but we call it "River's apprentice" as it's small ^^.
Retiro park now is cool because it holds the annual book Fair, and it's all full of stands with books every May and June. It also has a lot of musicians, magicians, icecream posts and a rose field so so beautiful!....and many things more...I love it, really^^ (sometimes you get to make squirrels eat from your palm^^).
I'd like to have some Castilla sometime:P it loos like a very good cake!.
the bullring is relatively new...two centuries or so, and it has been moved several times. It also holds concerts and events, not only bullfighters. In spain, for a bullfighter, to fight the bull in Ventas is like the greatest dream they can have. Something like....playing in the tokyo dome for rockers in Japan....(allrightXD allways comparing Japan thing with oursXd but it's something we both know about, don't we?).
there are many other beatiful palaces in Madrid, along with incredible churches and squares. I think I'll take out again my camera and take new photos only to make you see how much I love this place.
Oh and under Plaza de España there's a chinese restaurant that it's absolutely delicious, it's chinese food for chinese people so it tastas a lot different and it's so cheap!!
then its settled! I'll try to get new ^photos^^
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What a perfect place to host a book fair. Reading books while smelling the roses... *dreams away* Musician + magicians + ice-cream posts? Sounds like a carnival!
To me Castilla is more like a Japanese cake than a foreign invention. Besides plain, it comes with flavors like Macha, Aduki beans, Yuzu (a citrus that looks like miniature orange). I don't know how perishable it is. If I manage to find some vaccum-sealed that can survive for months, I'll send it to you (together with the rest of the Japanese textbooks, of course).
I haven't eaten REAL chinese food for YEARS and I definitely miss it. I still haven't been able to find real Chinese food in my area, despite the proximity to China and the southeast asia.
Thanks very much again. Let me know when you run out of Japanese practice exercises. :-)
♥
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damn, I forgot to photograph the DEvil's statue.....in retiro Park....
here you are, internet sourced
http://www.luispita.com/uploaded_images/angel_caido1-704759.jpg
It's the only statue of Satan in the world, aren't we original?XD
I've taken mor photos today, a pair of fountins, Palza de españa (more on it) and Debod Temple(Our Egyptian Monument)^_^ I'll try to get pictures of the royal Palace soon^^
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The mailboxes are cool. But the dutch ones are prettier.
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And yes, you've been here^and I hope you all come back soon!!
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I hope I come back soon. I miss Spain. I miss the internet café with it's lovely salades and I miss the Moustached Waiter from Miau and I miss you and Gavner and Sparky and even the noise.
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