The Authors
Christopher & Melanie Rice have travelled throughout Europe writing guides to destinations from the Algarve to the Turkish coast. They have been visiting Madrid for more than 20 years and have now decided to make it their home.
Additional Contributor Mary-Ann Gallagher
Publishing Director Georgina Dee
Publisher Vivien Antwi
Design Director Phil Ormerod
Editorial Michelle Crane, Alice Fewery, Rachel Fox, Fay Franklin, Freddie Marriage, Fíodhna Ní Ghríofa, Scarlett O’Hara, Sally Schafer
Cover Design Maxine Pedliham, Vinita Venugopal
Design Sunita Gahir, Rahul Kumar
Picture Research Susie Peachey, Ellen Root, Lucy Sienkowska, Oran Tarjan
Cartography Suresh Kumar, Casper Morris, Reetu Pandey
DTP Jason Little, George Nimmo
Production Linda Dare
Factchecker Lynnette McCurdy
Proofreader Laura Walker
Indexer Hilary Bird
Illustrator Chris Orr & Associates
First edition created by Sargasso Media Ltd, London
Commissioned Photography Barnabas Kindersley, Lisa Linder, Rough Guides/Ian Aitken, Rough Guides/Tim Draper, Rough Guides/Lydia Evans, Kim Sayer, Clive Streeter; John Whittaker, Peter Wilson.
Revisions Parnika Bagla, Mohammad Hassan, Sumita Khatwani, Shikha Kulkarni, Arushi Mathur, Bandana Paul, Vagisha Pushp, Laura O’Brien, Rada Radojicic, Lucy Richards, Rohit Rojal, Anuroop Sanwalia, Azeem Siddiqui, Mark Silas, Rituraj Singh, Beverly Smart, Priyanka Thakur, Manjari Thakur, Stuti Tiwari, Vinita Venugopal, Tanveer Zaidi
Picture Credits
The publisher would like to thank the following for their kind permission to reproduce their photographs:
Alamy Images: age fotostock /David Miranda / Guillermo Navarro /José Ramiro / Lucas Vallecillos; Peter Barritt; Ian Dagnall; Emma Durnford; Factofoto; Kevin Foy; Maria Galan; geogphotos; Kevin George; Steve Hamblin; Hemis; Heritage Image Partnership Ltd; Phil Hill; Peter Horree; INTERFOTO/Monasterio de Las Descalzas Reales, Madrid La Dolorosa, by Pedro de Mena /Museo del Prado, Madrid The Adoration of the Shepherds (1612) by El Greco; JOHN KELLERMAN; Stefano Politi Markovina; Masterpics/Prado Museum Carlos III (1761) by Anton Rafael Mengs /Prado Museum Self Portrait (1498) by Albrecht Durer, /Prado Museum Autodafe on Plaza Mayor with Charles II (1680) by Francisco Rizi; Melba Photo Agency; North Wind Picture Archives; PjrTravel; PjrTravel; Prisma Archivo, Battle of Turin, 1706 by Joseph Parrocel; RosaIreneBetancourt 6; SAGAPHOTO.COM/Patrick Forget; Alex Segre; Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo/Giribas Jose; Lucas Vallecillos; World History Archive; Zoonar GmbH.
Jamones Julián Becerro
El Bocaito
Bridgeman Images: De Agostini Picture Library; Museo Lazaro Galdiano, Madrid The Adoration of the Magi (1567-70) by El Greco (Domenico Theotocopuli); Prado, Madrid Las Meninas or The Family of Philip IV (c.1656) by Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez.
Café de Oriente
Capas Seseña
Casa Alberto
Casa Museo Sorolla: Walk by the Sea (1909) by Joaquin Sorolla; The Horse’s Bath (1909) by Joaquín Sorolla.
Casa Patas
Corbis: Arcaid/Richard Bryant; Eye Ubiquitous/Bennett Dean; The Gallery Collection; Hemis/René Mattes; Leemage/Prado Museum The Spinners or The Fable of Arachne (c.1657) by Diego Velazquez.
Dreamstime.com: Alezia; Anibaltrejo; Bpperry; Btlife; Dennis Dolkens; Dinozzaver; Drfail; Epalaciosan; Gil7416; Gilles Gaonach; Gregory108; Hect; Hemeroskopion; David Herraez; Icononiac; Jackf; Lestertairpolling; Lukasz Janyst; Javierespuny; Justinmetz; Karsol; Lawmoment; Pavel Losevsky; Macsim; Andres Garcia Martin; Miff32; Milosk50; Carlos Mora; Mtrommer; Nikolais; Outsiderzone; Pabkov; Paha_l; Narcis Parfenti; William Perry; Jozef Sedmak; Sedmak; Siempreverde22; Slowcentury; Andreas Steidlinger; Tomas1111; Tupungato; Vwalakte.
El Buda Feliz: Cali Bibang.
Getty Images: DeAgostini; Pablo Blazquez Dominguez cb; Hulton Archive, /Culture Club; Daniel Hernanz Ramos; Rafa Samano; UIG/MyLoupe; Universal Images Group/Jeff Greenberg.
Hotel ME Madrid: Radio.
iStockphoto.com: fotoVoyager, JJFarquitectos; miralex; SeanPavonePhoto; TkKurikawa; Yasonya.
Licores Madrueño S.L.
Madrid Destino: Sofía Menendez.
Manuel Gonzalez Contreras
Mercado de San Miguel
Meson Cuevas Del Vino
© Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid: Young Knight in a Landscape (1510) by Vittore Carpaccio; Swaying Dancer (1877-9) by Edgar Degas; Christ and Woman of Samaria at the Well (1310-1) by Duccio di Buoninsegna; The Annunciation (c.1567-1577) by El Greco; Portrait of Henry VIII of England (1537) by Hans Holbein The Younger; Hotel Room (1931) by Edward Hopper; Still Life with Instruments (1915) by Liubov Popova; Woman with a Parasol in a Garden (c.1873) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Museo Arqueologico Nacional: Santiago Relanzón.
Museo Cerralbo: Latova José Fernández-Luna.
Museo Chicote: Emilia Brandao, emiliabrandaophoto.
Museo del Romanticismo: Pablo Linés Viñuales.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía: Joaquin Cortes/ Roman Lores; Mujer sentada I (Seated Woman) (ca. 1935) sculpture by Julio Gonzalez; Retrato II (1938) by Joan Miro © Successió Miró/ADAGP, Paris and DACS London 2016; Guernica (1937) by Pablo Picasso © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2016; Accidente Also known as Self-portrait (1936) by Alfonso Ponce de León; Le tertulia del Cafe de Pombo (1920) by Jose Gutierrez Solana © DACS 2016.
NH Hoteles/Estado Puro: Gonzalo Arche.
Palacio de Cibeles
La Parra
Ramses Life
Reserva y Cata: Leonardo Castro.
Restaurante Botín
Restaurante Horcher
Robert Harding Picture Library: Hugo Alonso; Barbara Boensch; Jeremy Bright; Adrian Dominguez; Elan Fleisher; Juergen Richter; Arturo Rosas; White Star/ Monica Gumm, / Alberto Mateo.
Salvador Bachiller
SuperStock: age fotostock; Album/Joseph Martin; Classic Vision/age fotostock/Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando Self-portrait Goya at 69 years of age by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes; Fine Art Images/Museo del Prado The Third of May 1808 (1814) by Francisco de Goya, The Three Graces (16350 by Pieter Paul Rubens, c., Parnassus (1631) by Nicolas Poussin; Joseph Martin; Peter Barritt; Travel Library Limited.
Taberna de Antonio Sanchez: Picasa.
Taberna del Alabardero
Teatro Real: Javier del Real.
La Violeta
Xanadu
Cover
Front and spine: iStockphoto.com: Yasonya.
Back: Alamy Stock Photo: Maria Galan; Dreamstime.com: Erix2005, Konstantin Kopachinskii, Sean Pavone; iStockphoto.com: Yasonya.
Pull Out Map Cover
iStockphoto.com: LucVi.
All other images © Dorling Kindersley
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As a guide to abbreviations in visitor information blocks: Adm = admission charge; D = dinner; L = lunch.
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