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In August, Madrid celebrates its most traditional fiestas: San Cayetano, San Lorenzo and La Paloma.

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I have been living in Spain for more than a year (Barcelona, Madrid), but since I’m working for an American company, my Spanish is still at beginner level. Of course I can say ‘one-two-three’, ‘beer’ and ‘hello’, but I’m often confused in hotels and restaurants. The last few months in Madrid, I’ve been using XS2Madrid on my cell phone. Spanish people tend to react a little strange in the beginning, but they really appreciate your effort to get to know their language. Especially when going out with friends, we had a lot of fun with the fun & flirt sentences. The best thing is that you can add some phrases you use often to your ‘favorites’ section, and after a while, I started knowing them by heart. Besides that, the city guide provides some excellent reviews and insider tips about Madrid’s hotspots, restaurants and clubs, some of which cannot be found in the regular city guide books.

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Museo del Prado Address Paseo del Prado Open Tues-Sun and holidays 9:00 – 20:00 With more than 30,000 paintings, the Prado is one of the most important and oldest repositories of art in the world. It began as a royal collection and was enlarged by the Hapsburgs and later the Bourbons. In paintings of the Spanish school the ... more...

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Address Calle Santa Isabel 52 Open Sat after 14:30 and all Sun Free The Reina Sofia is a world famous modern art museum featuring a diverse collection of 20th century art, from Picasso (his masterpiece Guernica) to Dalí. The museum itself is a futuristically renovated General Hospital, which originally dates ... more...

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum Address Paseo del Prado 8 Open Tues – Sun 10:00 – 19:00 The collection of the Thyssen-Bornemisza family is one of the world’s most extensive and valuable privately owned collection of paintings. It was amassed over a period of 60 years and comprises more than 700 European and American works from the 13th ... more...

Museo Sorolla Address Calle General Martínez Campos 37 Phone 913 101 584 Open Tue – Sat 9:30 – 15:00, Sun 10:00 – 15:00 A small, lesser-known museum with an excellent collection of Spanish post-impressionist and early 20th-century art. It boasts the best works of Valencian artist Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923), besides other highly varied collections: ... more...

Museo de America Address Avenida Reyes Católicos 6 Phone 915 492 641 Open Tue – Sat 9:30 15:00 Sun 10:00 – 15:00 This is a unique museum of its kind, whose origin lies in the Scientific Expeditions of the 18th century. The exhibition currently on display includes precolombine, ethnographic and colonial collections. Each of the collections would deserve a ... more...

Museo de Madrid Address Calle Príncipe de Vergara 140 Phone 915 886 599 Open Tue – Fri 9:30 – 20:00 Sat and Sun 10:00 – 14:00 Its five floors offer you a tour of the city’s history, since it was founded by the Arabs to date. It exhibits models of the urban areas, those of the architectural ensembles (Plaza de la Villa, Las Ventas Bullring) and the rooms devoted to ... more...