The trip, in order
Follow the route day by day. Times and prices can change, so check official information before you travel.
Old Madrid and the palace
Madrid
- 1
Royal Palace of Madrid
Tour grand state rooms, armoury displays and palace interiors at the western edge of the historic centre.
- Duration
- 120 minutes suggested
- Price
- Check current admission
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
- 2
Plaza Mayor, Madrid
Experience one of Madrid’s defining enclosed squares and connect easily to the old centre on foot.
- Duration
- 45 minutes suggested
- Price
- Free public access; paid activities may apply
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
- 3
Temple of Debod
Combine unusual ancient architecture with sunset views over western Madrid.
- Duration
- 75 minutes suggested
- Price
- Free public access; paid activities may apply
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
The great art museums
Madrid
- 1
Museo del Prado
See a concentrated survey of Spanish and European painting, especially Velázquez, Goya, El Greco, Rubens and Bosch.
- Duration
- 120 minutes suggested
- Price
- Check current admission
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
- 2
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Follow European art from early painting through Impressionism and 20th-century movements in a comparatively manageable museum.
- Duration
- 120 minutes suggested
- Price
- Check current admission
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
- 3
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
See Picasso’s Guernica and major Spanish modern-art collections in a large museum near Atocha.
- Duration
- 120 minutes suggested
- Price
- Check current admission
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
Park and football Madrid
Madrid
- 1
Buen Retiro Park
Use it as a relaxed break between museums, with lakeside walks, monumental avenues and exhibition pavilions.
- Duration
- 90 minutes suggested
- Price
- Free public access; paid activities may apply
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
- 2
Santiago Bernabéu Stadium
Visit one of Europe’s best-known football grounds for a stadium tour or match-day atmosphere.
- Duration
- 150 minutes suggested
- Price
- Check current admission
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.