Spain
About Madrid
Madrid sits high and dry in the dead centre of Spain, a capital that does its serious business by day and its real living after dark.
The Prado, Reina Sofía and Thyssen line up a staggering run of art, and the Retiro gives the whole city a green lung. There's no coast and no Gaudí here, just a confident, unpretentious city that throws the best night out in the country.
Dinner starts at ten, the bars fill at midnight, and somehow everyone is back at work the next morning.
Eat a hearty cocido stew, churros con chocolate at dawn, and tapas crawled bar to bar.
Get to Madrid
Round trip from Prague, any dates in November 2026.
Buses from Madrid
Day trips from Madrid
- Half day
Segovia
~30 min
A Roman aqueduct of 20,000 dry-set granite blocks striding across the city centre, a fairy-tale Alcázar on the cliff prow, and roast suckling pig as the local religion.
→ in WayoniHalf day- Day trip
El Escorial
~1 h
Philip II's granite monastery-palace in the Guadarrama foothills: a city-sized complex of royal tombs, a basilica and one of the great Renaissance libraries of Europe.
About Spain
Old-town streets and late dinners
A green Atlantic north, a half-desert middle and a Moorish south — plus the small hours treated as a perfectly normal time to eat.
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