MADRID´S RIO PARK AND THE GRAN VIA OF THE CITY

MADRID´S RIO PARK (some photos and little videos taken by me, gatufo)

It is Madrid, the capital of Spain, the city were I was born that along the years have changed so much that now it is absolutely different.

It is one of the cities that receive  yearly  more tourists, may be because it is a nice city where every one is taken like a new madrileño.

Or may be because the city has lot of painting museums or because its streets re always full of people that walk from one side to other.

The underground of Madrid is one of the best in all the world, it is new, confortable and very fast. But also the public buses are incredible good.

Madrid Rio is one of the latest big transformation of the City. Below the park there is a long road under the ground that encircle all the city with more than 20 kilometers or 30 kilometers that gives the place where the road was another quite different beautiful sites.

The river of Madrid it is very small, it is absolutely like a narrow thin river, its name is Manzanares and Goya painted it sides in several of his famous pictures.

Several years ago the people who was born in Madrid were called Cats?

Why?

Because there is a story about how the soldiers who take the city from the arabs climbed up the walls that encircle the city about the year 1085, since them madrileños are called Cats...gatos.  

 

 

  

GRAN VIA DE MADRID, PEQUEÑAS VISTAS 

 Each building of this Street is different, you may see one by one and all its structure is a lesson of different styles of architecture.

I love to walk up and down the Gran Via of Madrid, the same as thousand of people that always are doing the same.

This is a magic city that seems every body in on the streets, but it could be because there are thousands of tourist and Spaniards that come to see the city.

 

 

This Callao Square it is one of the most popular site to date with friends if you like to go to the theatre or just going for a walk.

Always the square is full of Young, old, girls, women, people of all countries of the world. 

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Well,  this is home in Madrid, where we spend several hours by day looking to the

computer, some of my paintings are on the walls.

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More sights of Gran Via and sorroundings.

Of course, I am a bad cameraman, so my will is doing better potos or videos of this my city one of the most visited in Europe.

Despite what I said above, being born here in Madrid, I love / hate the city.

Yes, that´s true, I would prefer to live near the sea or the mountains, forest, country lands but I was born here and I have been living here all my life.

Greetings from the City. 

el gatufo