The Other Spot

Madrid has been for years, the city receives more visitors annually. And that soon the Spanish capital has become a big city with a very cosmopolitan and modern, which offers all leisure and cultural activities imaginable: theaters, cinemas, music bars, restaurants…

It has also contributed to its modernization, it was Madrid, until recently a city of old buildings, crowded avenues and very few green areas in relation to their size. However, it is now increasingly hiring leading architects to not only enhance the silhouette of Madrid with its architectural forms, but to offer some world-class with its own name. So famous architects like Norman Foster and César Pelli (the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur) has already built two great towers of 250 meters each in the capital. Alongside them, other than as Alvaro Siza designed the Plaza de Colon in a spectacular underground tourist information center or the performances of Rafael Moneo in Spain or facade of the Bank in transforming the Villahermosa Palace in the Thyssen-Bornemisza, and as the extension of the Prado Museum.

Neighborhoods that were once considered suburbs now are joining the Madrid fashion modernist. In the neighborhood of the Arts, where once resided Lope de Vega and Cervantes, now bars and terraces open until nearly dawn. The hotels give their splendid terrazs to enjoy Madrid at night. O Lavapies neighborhood, which already has nine galleries and restaurants of international cuisine.

If the Chueca neighborhood was once a paragraph, now his neighbors are proud because the center of Madrid’s gay community has served to attract investment, and now Chueca is a neighborhood where walking with its own life freely, without restrictions, and where Restaurants and bars are very acclimated.

About Manzanares are opening almost 150,000 m2 of parks and gardens, not far away, the house burning or the Circo Price, and toward the center, the square of the Opera or the charming gardens of the East. The Paseo del Prado, the renovated museum offers ongoing art exhibitions and homages to old painters. until Atocha station itself boasts an authentic interior with its spectacular lung tropical garden.

But if the night is set, and varied entertainment offered to us in Madrid, the surprise of this modern Madrid can continue even within the same hotels as the Hotel Puerta America, a luxury in which each plant has been designed by other than an architect or designer, as Mariscal, Victorio & Lucchino, Arata Isozaki and Jean Nouvel.