Tuesday, 1 December 2015

Weekend in Madrid


Madrid is a south-western European city and the capital and largest municipality. The city is located on the Manzanares River in the centre of the country. While Madrid possesses a modern infrastructure, it has preserved the look and feel of many of its historic neighbourhoods and streets. Some of its historical buildings and important places are: the Royal Palace of Madrid; the Royal Theatre with its restored 1850 Opera House; the Retiro Park, founded in 1631; the 19th-century National Library building Golden Triangle of Art, Prado Museum, the Reina Sofía Museum, a museum of modern art, and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and the Cibeles Palace and Fountain have become the monument symbol of the city of Spain. We are going on a trip with our family to Madrid on 19th (Saturday) and 20th (Sunday) of December.
We are going by car and we leave from Granada the 18th in the afternoon to arrive to Madrid at night. We will sleep in a Hotel called Hostal Rayuela situated in Fuencarral,in the center of Madrid.



We will sleep there two nights and the price is 26€ per night. We have booked a room for three people.



The 18th, when we arrive we will leave the baggage in the hotel and we will go to have dinner in a restaurant near it, called Las Noches de Moscú. We will have a 20€ menu.
  



The next day we will go to Las Rozas village that is a shopping centre with many expensive brands that has articles of old collections so everything is cheaper.









After that we will go to a shopping centre called Heron city, that is next to Las Rozas, to have lunch in a Fosters Hollywood, we will have a 15€ menu.



 






In the afternoon we will go to the city centre and go for a walk there to see the city. In the evening, we will have dinner in a resturant called La Esquina del Real and at night we will take the subway and return to the hotel.




  


                                                                   






On Sunday, we are going to the Rey León musical in the Lope de Vega theatre. The tickets cost 49€ per person in the second amphitheatre.


When it finishes we will have lunch a 10€ menu, in a restaurant called Nebraska. Then, we will return to Granada.

Trip to Nerja

We leave from Granada at 8.30. When we arrive we will have a guided visit by the Caves of Nerja. The entrance costs 9 euros.
 
The Caves of Nerja are a series of caverns close to the town of Nerja in the Province of Málaga. The caverns are one of Spain's major tourist attractions. Concerts are regularly held in one of the chambers, which forms a natural amphitheatre.
The caves were re-discovered in modern times on 12 January 1959 by five friends who entered through a narrow sinkhole known as "La Mina". This forms one of the two natural entrances to the cave system. A third entrance was created in 1960 to allow easy access for tourists. The cave is divided into two main parts.

After visiting the caves, we are going to the centre of Nerja and we are having lunch there in a restaurant called La Marina, in which we will have a 15€ menu, that is at 200 metres from the "Balcón de Europa".


The "Balcón de Europa" was built where before was the destroyed fortress in 1812, during the Independece War. It is situated at the end of a large avenue. There, we can see a panoramic view of the Nerja coast.

Finally, we are going for a walk around the city center and we return to Granada at 6.00.