Swashbuckling Madrid celebrates itself and life in general around the clock. After spending much of the 20th century sequestered at the center of a totalitarian regime, Madrid has burst back onto the world stage with an energy redolent of its 16th-century golden age, when painters and …
Although these three cities are remarkably different in texture and attractions, each is evocative of the region it presides over: Barcelona, capital of Catalonia; Madrid, capital of Castile (and the entire country); and Seville, capital of Andalusia. To walk their streets, to sample their …
Madrid is the capital of Spain, set deep in the interior of the Iberian Peninsula, at the highest altitude of any European capital. Its summer is hot; and its winter, though often brilliantly sunny, somewhat cold.