Advantages: Beautiful surrounding, nice shops, good food at reasonable prices Disadvantages: Not really in the league of some of the museums, too many people exhibiting themselves
...The Plaza Mayor is one of the most beautiful squares in the city of Madrid. It is surrounded by buildings, which are mostly around three or four stories high. On the ground floor of most of these buildings, there are restaurants and shops. The restaurants sell good food at fairly reasonable prices. The Plaza Mayor bustles with life and vigour; many people can be found exhibiting themselves, having sprayed themselves with silver paint and other such things. In the centre, there is a statue of Felipe the Third, who was unsuprising the king at the time. The buildings in the square are architectually stunning; a certain building is covered in fantastic murals. The nearest metro station to the Plaza Mayor is Sol. Personally, I believe that the Plaza Mayor is a fantastic place to visit over lunch one day, where you can sit and enjoy...
edward_stapleton
01.01.1970 ·Read review
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Review of PlazaMayor, Madrid
...Hi everybody!
I'm spanish and i've visited Plaza Mayor very much all my live...
It's in the austrias's Madrid at sol zone.
Plaza Mayor is a square with the Felipe III statue at center...
At XVI century the square was used for bullfights and jugdments, but now...
In this hollydays you can found there a market with christmas's objects and really tipical food.
For example you can enter at caņas y tapas and eat a really good "tapa" of ham or cheese with red wine of our country... mmhhhh delicious!
And the most tipical in madrid... Squid sandwichs!! (Bocadillo de calamares)
At the street the ambient is magnific, very different people in a fantastic place.
You can found too ambulant shops with chestnuts, and corn... and if you come for summer the bars are out! yeah in the streets...
The price is more expensiva that other...
Dark_soul
01.01.1970 ·Read review
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Advantages: Continental Christmas comes to the capital Disadvantages: None - if you like Christmas
...Around this time of year, Mrs P and myself have been known to visit one of the Christmas markets in Germany. So, it's nice that a German Christmas market has gone to the trouble of paying us a return visit.
Well, to be fair, they haven't gone to all that effort solely on our behalf, that would just be ridiculous. But the fact of the matter is, Edinburgh plays host to its very own, authentic GCM thereby saving us the expense of a flight to the continent. It could be said that we are also spared the time-consuming journey, but not by anyone who has ever tried to drive into, and park in, central Edinburgh - it's only marginally quicker than making your way to Frankfurt!
Of course, you could always let the train take the strain, and arrive in the city in what is probably the best way, climbing up to Princes St from the subterranean...
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