Plaza España Me and my mother-in-law decided, on the second day of my stay in Madrid, to visit the center of the city. This square on the picture above is one of the biggest in Madrid, and is as nice to visit by day as by night, but by night it is something spectacular because of the lights of the city. and the games of light. This Plaza is situated near the Palacio Real (Royal Palace), which I visited with my brother-in-law. He is a fan of the history and explained everything about the history of the buildings in the city and about the most famous places there.
Royal Palace
The Royal Palace or the Palacio Real de Madrid is the official residence of the King of Spain, but he does not reside in this big palace, but in the smallest Palacio de la Zarzuela, on the outskirts of Madrid. The construction of this Palace started in the 1738 and it ended in the 1755. It was built on the location of the previous Old Castle, that burnt down on Christmas Eve in the 1734.
But to return to our Plaza, on the day we visited it, there was a market place just between the Fountain in the photo and near the Monument to Cervantes. The market was represeting craftworks from different South American countries. After checking out each stand from different countries, you know women curiousity to see just everything (but we forgot to take pics, of course, too much to see), we visited the Monument to Miguel Cervantes, writer of the famous Don Quixote de la Mancha and his trusty squire, Sancho Panza. I remeber I was watching, as a small girl, a cartoon about Don Quixote and Sancho Panza and their adventures and their fights against the mills. The book is really amuzing, and now that I speak Spanish, I must take courage to read it in the original language. Well but that day we don't have to fight against mills, but just against technology to take the best pic by night.
Monument to Cervantes
But to return to our Plaza, on the day we visited it, there was a market place just between the Fountain in the photo and near the Monument to Cervantes. The market was represeting craftworks from different South American countries. After checking out each stand from different countries, you know women curiousity to see just everything (but we forgot to take pics, of course, too much to see), we visited the Monument to Miguel Cervantes, writer of the famous Don Quixote de la Mancha and his trusty squire, Sancho Panza. I remeber I was watching, as a small girl, a cartoon about Don Quixote and Sancho Panza and their adventures and their fights against the mills. The book is really amuzing, and now that I speak Spanish, I must take courage to read it in the original language. Well but that day we don't have to fight against mills, but just against technology to take the best pic by night.
Monument to CervantesAnd below is the photo of my mother-in-law, standing between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. She looks worried cause it was hard to get where she stands to take a photo. But this exact point is quite famous for photo shooters, in fact a small queue was waiting to do just the same. Well, who doesn't want to appear near this two characters of the novel.
After visiting the nicest spots in Madrid, my time with part of my family in law ended and my travel continued on the 15th November to my new home country, to Peru.
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