Plaza de la Villa The Plaza de la Villa is located in the historic center of Madrid ( Spain ), next to the street, which forms its northern face. It originated three small streets, for the primitive medieval streets of the city: Elbow appears in the east, the Cord to the south and the west of Madrid. Around it are the main facades of three buildings of great historical and artistic value, erected in different centuries. The oldest is the House and Tower Lujan...

There is a very good reason why this blog has ground to a halt. We've spent so much time eating and drinking in Madrid that there just isn't time to write. We go to el minniBar most nights and yesterday for lunch went to Platea. A picture theatre that used to have three seating levels has been converted into: http://translate.google.es/translate?hl =en&sl=es&u=http://www.espaciom adrid.es/%3Fp%3D26296&prev=search Tonight is our last in Madrid, so ...

triBall,Madrid The near-naked woman in the string vest is laughing about the day she saw herself on television. She was in a bar in the neighbourhood where she plies her trade and suddenly there she was on the bar's TV, standing on the corner of the street, waiting for business. There had been a lot of journalists around that day because it was the inauguration of a project to bring new life, wealth and art to the rundown triangle of central Madrid located betwe...

A rainy day in Madrid isn't enough to clear the streets. Every street and plaza was filled with people. I forgot my umbrella and paid E5 for one designed to last for a day, which it barely did. We walked for miles, we were cut off by a marathon or fun run but didn't see much evidence of fun. We reached the Archaeological Museum and wasted 30 minutes of our 1.5 hours free time (Free Sunday afternoons for a few hours) in the cafeteria having a coffee. Spent the bes...

We had failed to find the tourist information office on Friday night, so decided to try to find the one in Plaza Mayor. As there are not two streets in Madrid that are parallel and the liklihood of getting lost for a week highly likely, we used the primitive map in our apartment to identify a staight street running from the bottom of our street (50m) past the front of the Palacio Real for 400m to Calle Mayor and then up Calle Mayor to Plaza Mayor. How easy was th...