Park · Jerónimos, Retiro district, Madrid, Community of Madrid
El Retiro Park
Parque del Retiro · Parque del Buen Retiro
El Retiro Park (Parque del Buen Retiro) is a historic city park of over 125 hectares in central Madrid, with gardens, monuments and a large artificial lake.
Why go
Madrid's city tourism site describes El Retiro as covering over 125 hectares with more than 15,000 trees, a large artificial lake where rowing boats can be rented, the Monument to Alfonso XII and gardens including the Rosaleda rose garden. It says that on 25 July 2021 El Retiro and the Paseo del Prado, together called the Landscape of Light, were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site; that designation covers the wider area and is not this record. The Palacio de Velázquez and the Palacio de Cristal inside the park are exhibition spaces of the Museo Reina Sofía and are separate places. The same site says El Retiro may close in severe weather, and that screens beside the park's accesses announce a full or partial closure.
Near El Retiro Park
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Museo del Prado
The Museo del Prado is Spain's national art museum, on the Paseo del Prado in central Madrid, housed in the Villanueva building and an extension by Rafael Moneo behind it.
1 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
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Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza is an art museum in the Villahermosa palace at Paseo del Prado 8 in central Madrid.
1 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
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National Archaeological Museum of Spain
The National Archaeological Museum (Museo Arqueológico Nacional) is a public museum of archaeology founded in 1867, at Calle Serrano 13 in Madrid.
1 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
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Museo Reina Sofía
The Museo Reina Sofía is Spain's national museum of modern and contemporary art, with its main site in the Sabatini and Nouvel buildings on Calle Santa Isabel and Ronda de Atocha in central Madrid.
1 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ