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The train museum, tucked away in an old station building to the south of Atocha, right next to Delicias Cercanias and Metro stations, is a fantastic way to spend a morning. On Saturdays from 11.30 until lunchtime they have the mini trains running around a great little landscaped track at the back ?...

I'm not sure you need to worry about the ?before you die' bit, but viviendomadrid.com has put together an interesting list of what you should get up to in the city? Click here to go to the list in Spanish If you want the hit and miss Google translate version (for example, no. 5 Riding a bike in the ...

Next week not one, but two of Madrid's most prominent symbols are going to disappear from its central square. One is the statue of a bear licking (or sniffing) a tree (el oso y el madroño) currently installed a few steps from the Puerta del Sol. The other one, which we wrote about last year, is the ...

Few makeover projects have been handled with such a degree of architectural audacity as the recent transformation of a disused electric station in Madrid's Las Huertas district into a cultural center La Caixa Forum - Madrid. Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron not only gutted the building, remov...