The Ultimate List of The Best Things To Do In Madrid, Spain

1. Visit the Royal Palace of Madrid
2. Take a walk through Retiro Park
3. Rent a row boat at Retiro Park
4. Tour the Prado Museum
5. Visit the Sorolla Museum
6. Eat at Mercado de San Miguel
7. Go to the oldest restaurant in the world
8. Shop along Gran Via
9. Take pictures at Plaza Mayor
10. Get a spa treatment at the Arabic Baths
11. Get drinks with free tapas at Bar El Tigre
12. Party at Teatro Kapital
13. Gaze at the Plaza de Ciebles
14. See “El Rey Leon”, the Lion King, in Spanish
15. See Picasso at The Reina Sofia Museum
16. Get lost in the Thysenn Museum
17. People watch in Puerto De Sol
18. Get pastries at La Mallorquina in Sol
19. Go vintage shopping in Malasana
20. Get drinks at the sandy beach bar in Ojala Cafe
21. Check out the multi-cultural neighborhood of Lavapies
22. Eat on the top floor in El Corte Ingles in Gran Via for a great view
23. Take a free walking tour of the city
24. Take a hop-on-hop-off tour bus
25. Eat pallea
26. Watch the sunset at Templo de Debod
27. Go Spanish wine tasting
28. Go on a Spanish Tapas and Wine food tour
29. Learn how to navigate the metro
30. Attend intercambio classes to learn some Spanish
31. Visit the Museum of Madrid in Tribunal
32. Buy souvenires and gifts at El Rastro fleamarket (every Sunday 9-3)
33. Eat chocolate con churros in La Latina
34. Get dinner in La Latina
35. Take a day tour to Toledo
36. Go inside the Crystal Palace in Retiro Park
37. Get lost in the neighborhoods
38. Drink lots of cafe con leche
39. Have Tortilla de Patata (potato omlette) for breakfast
40. Buy street art
41. Go to a Real Madrid game
42. Get a Tour of Stadium Santiago Bernabeu
43. Buy a Real Madrid jersey
44. Take a ride on the Teleferico
45. Drink blue win at Mercado de San Miguel
46. Read a book outside the Royal Palace
47. Jog in the Botanical Garden
48. Visit the Royal Basillica
49. Buy a Spanish fan to cool off
50. Take a day tour to El Escorial
    

    The library inside the El Escorial Monastery

51. Take your picture with
52. Walk under the Puerta de Alcala
53. Take a train to Alcala
54. Take a Spanish Cooking Class
55. Attend a Flamenco workshop
56. See a Flamenco show
57. Ride a bike through Paseo Del Prado
58. Drink lots of sangria
59. Get foreign groceries at a Spanish Grocery store for -cheap- food
60. Meet some kitties at the cat cafe- La Gatoteca
61. Take pictures of the famous Metropolis building
62. Go bar hopping until 6 AM
63. Get drunk off Vino- but not too drunk.
64. Take a day trip to Chueca to see the hanging houses
65. Listen to street performers in Sol
66. Shop 5 floors of Primark
67. Take a Segway City Tour
68. Visit the National Archaeological Museum
69. Take a Day tour to Segovia & Avila
70. Participate in one of Madrid’s many escape rooms
71. See a concert at the National Music Auditorium
72. Take pictures by the Ciebles Palace
73. Take a city bike tour
74. Explore the huge, plant filled Atotcha train station
75. Visit the Bull Fighting Museum
76. Visit the Cerralbo Museum
77. Smell the Flowers at the Rosadela rose garden
78. Stroll along the Madrid River
79. See the famous Oso y el Madrono statue in Sol
80. Get a panorama view from the Faro de Moncloa
81. Shop along Calle Mayor
82. Explore the depths of the Almudena Crypt
83. Walk across Puente de Segovia, the oldest bridge in Madrid
84. Visit the Palacio de Gaviria (art museum)
85. See the animals at the Madrid Zoo Aquarium
86. Play at Madrid’s theme park
87. Ride rollercoasters at Parque Warner Madrid
88. Eat Jamon Iberico (Those pig legs you see hanging all over the restaurants)
89. Have a picnic in Retiro park
90. Stroll through the Paseo de Recoletos
91. Get a tattoo in Fuencarrall
92. Buy cookies from nuns at Monasterio Del Corpus Christi
93. Try blue wine at el Mercado de San Miguel
94. Search for street art graffiti
95. Go to a bull fight (I personally stand against this, but it is still one of Madrid’s popular attractions)
96. Attend a parade
97. Get a treatment at the Lush Spa
98. Set up an easle in Retiro Park and paint what you see
99. Take a train to Alcala de Henares
100. Have a Botellon in Parque del Oeste 
101. Have a photo shoot in the Royal Gardens

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