In many European novels, Madrid is a mysterious place. The wide boulevard connects the narrow streets, European-style high-rise buildings silhouetted against the Arab-style red tile and white walls - the contradictions are harmonious.
Madrid, an old and new exist side by side, East and West blend of magical places.
GranVia Style
Spain's well-known fashion critic Jieweierma statins (JavierMartinezReverte) is this description of GranVia street: "If someone GranVia walk the streets, he will soon find here the air filled with a kind of pioneer, because there is a complete the hearts of his soul. At the same time, we see the style of traditional and multi-ethnic co-existence, a wandering spirit and character fuse fashion. "
I stood on the plateau overlooking the Liberian Madrid, the first thing that catches your eyes is the huge billboards. This section of Madrid's busiest streets is full of a variety of advertising, from the weekend's performances to the latest cosmetic Matador pictures, varied, everything.
GranVia night on the street is full of flow with one of bustling scene. There are many cinemas and theaters at night markets, a number of lovers waiting for the theater. The street where there are many Internet cafes, a number of young people in the surf. Fall and winter seasons, Madrid often rains at night, bustling crowd in the rain, I took a digital camera to record the city's unique night.
GranVia means "street" from 1910 Alfonso XIII era began to take shape here during the Spanish Civil War is the city center, between the CallaAlcalah and ReddeSanLuis, you can feel the traces of the French style. GranVia Street, known as Madrid's Broadway or the first street, with no special large-scale department stores, Madrid's fashion sense is through some of the details and the overall appearance reflected, and this is Madrid's style.
Leather Products
The reputation of the Spanish leather goods is without any advertising. Madrid's fashion street, Zara store brand is always crowded. Characterized by their goods, which is cheap and suitable for young people to consumption, the models imitated quickly. I just saw a Zegna store price 1000 euros a white kid shirt, put behind companion joked, and had never seen other handsome guy before me. In this house Zara's flagship store, also has a similar style leather shirt, and cost only 100 euros, but the chest is too small to put on and found the cortex also can not compare with the Ermenegildo Zegna. But because full consideration to the young people's spending power, so Zara store is always crowded. This is a Madrid fashion industry, a very typical example, the Spanish fashion brand, always has a value for money, fashion sense and the freshness of the characteristics of popular mid-range consumers.
Zara is a listing of the Spanish Inditex Group's Ortega (Spain's richest man, with assets exceeding the 10 billion euros) of the brand created, 20 years in 41 countries around the world with 1340 stores, the price of fashion in the not to fight advertising, consumer word of mouth alone and the purchase rate, in the highly competitive fashion industry play world, the Spanish fashion became the fashion retail business around the new force. It also reflects the expansion of Spain's real attitude of the fashion business.
In Madrid, you will find leather goods can be done very rich, a leather shop there is a leather wallet especially attractive zero-line of sight, 1 euro 1, barrel, it seems small, but loaded dozens of coins cents No doubt, the colors green, yellow, orange, light blue, it is not put it down.
Square Capital
Madrid has more than 300 square, Puerta del Sol (PuertadeAlcala) is the center of the city, seven to the four radial extension of this street. Establish a central plaza with a unique flower sculpture - one of the bears climb trees escorted, which is the emblem of Madrid city.
Another well-known square is Piazza di Spagna (PlazadeEspana), also known as Plaza Cervantes, Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes (Cervantes) is a monument to mark the Spanish Square.
Cervantes statue was built in 1835. Sitting in a chair on the high-profile writers look solemn, holding the hands of his masterpieces as "Don Quixote." Monument under the "Don Quixote" in the two attendants of his hero Don Quixote and Panza. Don Quixote was wearing a suit of armor, riding a skinny horse, from my close-up shooting under, I seem to see both master and servant is ready to join efforts to teach fighting windmills.
To commemorate this great writer, Miguel de Cervantes's death day - March 23 was set as the Reading Festival, the annual day of national large-scale book fairs will be organized, and presented the highest Cervantes prize for literature.
RITIRO Park (ParquedelBuenRitiro) is located in Madelia Alfonso XII Street (Alfonse Ⅻ) east of an area of 130 hectares, is the largest park in Madrid, is also Spain's kings hiding and resting places. RITIRO in Spanish means "happy retreat", how meaningful name. Park built in the 15th century, in 1868 after the establishment of the First Republic, Spain, the people of Madrid began to open.
In the afternoon, stroll in the RITIRO parks, quiet incomparable. Roads criss-cross the park will be a huge park is divided into more than 10 different colors of the garden park.
The huge park is very quiet, just a few people walking around, like in their own private garden linger. Hundreds of air of different, life-like statues to accompany me, of which the largest is the King and Queen of Spain's ancient white statues, they are still alive, when everything handed to wealth and status, death can also be in such a wonderland of "happy retreat" .
Autumn and winter is low season for tourism in Spain, park management personnel are on the artificial lake (Estanque) to clean up, they have the lake drained, used bulldozed addition to clean silt and debris. Looked dark and the bottom of the lake, I think, next year they will have countless tourists boating around the lake.
Travel reminder
1. Voltage: 220V, power plugs for the two-legged round plug, and in some hotels, the Chinese feet flat plugs can also be used.
2. Fashion Street: GranVia Street, known as Madrid's Broadway or Fifth Avenue, the street, and no special large-scale department stores, specialty shops are more common. In the Spanish Square and Puerta del Sol area, you can also find some interesting shops.
Most of the shops 9:30 to 2 pm business, closing at noon. 5 pm to 8 business (Mon-Sat), major department store is open from 10 am to 9 pm or 10 points. Restaurant around 13:30 to 3:30 lunch, 9 pm to 11 pm for dinner. Of course, most bars and cafes will be operating during the day, usually will provide drinks and some staples.
3. Out the best go hand in hand, to "glance right and left," and pay attention to whether there are suspicious persons; the best passport, air ticket copy, and the original kept separate in order to re-submit documents and air tickets; not to bring too much cash, such as the need to bring in cash, should be decentralized to carry, so that all cash once robbed.
4. In case of a robber, generally do not resist, so life is hurt. Robbed after going to report to the embassies and consulates re-submit the relevant documents and exit.
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