When I was a teenager, I had a longing for Madrid, the city where baroque architecture and soccer are intertwined, and where my favorite Sansome and Jose met. Since then, Madrid has been imprinted with passion and romance in my heart.
Madrid, as the capital of Spain and one of the representative cities, has carried too many years of San Mao. This time I'm going to see the city where she once lived and loved: Madrid Madrid, to look for the footprints of San Mao.
Market of San Miguel - - Basilica de San Miguel - - Parque del Retiro
This steel and glass city is a great place to visit. >
This steel and glass structure is a real eye-catcher.
This modern-looking building is in fact the Market of San Miguel, the most famous and popular market in Madrid with a history of more than 100 years.
Walking into the Market of San Miguel, I was immediately stunned by the elegant environment here. Tall space design, transparent glass curtain wall, clean and neat shelves, a variety of dazzling colorful goods, snacks ------ dazzling.
Surprised, I even a little envious. Although the market tends to the positioning of the stalls, but the shuttle in the middle of the housewives are not those carrying baskets of food, but standing casually, holding a glass of wine sipping red wine, eating Tapas chatting about the day of the people, what a pleasant and comfortable scene.
The market is a colorful place, with eye-catching decorations at every corner, and no doubt they are decorated with a variety of flowers, which are ostentatious but a great experience.
Alluring juice drinks, red, orange, yellow and green, colorful and beautiful, not like a drink, but like a craft on display.
The olive skewers, stuffed with a variety of fillings, are small and mouth-watering.
Each of the goods here is extremely delicate, not a pile of mountains of stacks, but neatly placed in order, and are clearly marked price, so that people buy understand, eat at ease.
In addition to vegetables and fruits, oversized paella, freshly cut ham, fresh oysters, oversized octopus, delicious caviar, and skewers of olives sandwiched between a variety of fillings are all available here. However, it is said that the price is slightly more expensive than other places because it has been transformed into a tourist attraction.
gallop stroll through the market, feel not enough, after all, many things are eyes can not see over, also can not shoot over, just a market can be surprising, the charm of Spain is far more than that.
There is also a cathedral of the same name near the San Miguel market. Built in 1745, Basilica de San Miguel is a Roman Catholic church with the beautiful lines of the 18th century Baroque style, and is the residence of the Pontifical Representative of the Holy See in Spain. It is best known for its stone carvings inside and outside the church.
The church door erected a bronze sculpture of a young man holding an open book, one leg supported on the steps. I wonder what the two have to do with each other.
Along the way encountered countless churches, but only a few to visit. When we passed by the Convento de las Jeronimas del Corpus Christi, we saw a crowd of people gathered at the entrance, and out of curiosity, we also went inside.
The Convento de las Jeronimas del Corpus Christi is very beautiful, but not many people visit. Inside the monastery, as if to another world, surprisingly quiet.
It is said that the monastery has a collection of valuable works of art.
The Church of San Pedro Iglesia de San Pedro El Viejo, first built in 1847 during the Spanish rule, is one of the earlier churches established in the city for worship. The bell tower of the church is in the Mulhad style, giving an immediate indication that it must have originally been a Moorish mosque that was later converted into a church.
The colorful Madrid has evolved over thousands of years of cultural heritage and turnover. Many of Madrid's streets, alleys, squares and buildings actually hide little-known secrets.
The Iglesia de San Andres is one of the most exquisite churches in Madrid, built in the Renaissance style with a Gothic vault. It looks grand and imposing in the surrounding modern complex. It is the resting place of San Isidro San Isidro, the patron of Madrid.
There is a very distinctive place on the streets of Madrid that attracts me very much. This is its culturally and artistically infectious street signs, with celebrities, landscapes, and various artistic logos.
I think Madrid is like an abstract painting by Picasso, colorful and eye-catching. Walking down the street, from time to time, there will be a whole wall of colorful spray paint, appearing on the street corner, so that a colorful Madrid presented to the world.
Driving past the Puerta de Alcalá, a Romanesque triumphal arch, one of Madrid's few remaining ancient city gates, the Puerta de Alcalá was built in the 18th century and is made of white granite.*** There are five openings, three domed arches in the center, each with a lion's head carved in stone, and a flat-roofed door on each side with a small bouquet of overlapping flowers carved into the top of the door. overlapping bouquets of flowers; above the top of the door crouches six warriors with helmets covering their faces and flags draped over their bodies.
Not far from Puerta de Alcalá, we found a parking space, crossed the street and stepped through this Felipe IV gate into Parque del Retiro, Madrid's central park and the city's largest green lung.
The Parque del Retiro was built in the 17th century by order of Felipe IV as a royal garden, originally as a retreat for the kings of Spain, but later turned into a park and opened to the public in 1868.
Ritz Park is also the place where the love story of Sanmao and José began and where Sanmao loved to go.
The Crystal Palace Palacio de paired with the artificial lake is undoubtedly the most beautiful view in Ritz Park.
Dense with the atmosphere of love in the Ritz Park in the glass palace, is known as Spain's palace-style architecture, mainly iron and glass construction, transparent body, such as a dream.
You know, this transparent palace is not a modern building. It was built in 1887, and the designer was inspired by the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, which was a very fashionable palace back then.
The metal-and-glass structure was a huge greenhouse, designed to showcase flora and fauna from the Philippines.
From a distance, it looks like a huge birdcage, delicate and elegant, and the main structure is covered with colorful tiles decorated in the Spanish style. In Spain, beautiful, infectious colorful tiles and mosaics are widely used on the exterior walls of buildings.
Into the Crystal Palace, standing in the center, let the sun through the four sides of the unobstructed glass wall, sprinkled to every corner of the palace, let the warmth embrace me ------ mind fantasize, in the sunlight, this charming building like a dream.
This style of combining metal and glass elements makes the whole Crystal Palace as if it were really in a fairy tale general mystery, making people's hearts yearn for it.
The Crystal Palace is so beautiful that it makes the nearby Palacio de Velázquez pale in comparison.
Not far from the Crystal Palace, this tawny building is the Palacio de Velázquez. Both buildings are the work of the same architect, his name is Ricardo Velázquez Bosc Ricardo Velázquez Bosc, but be careful, do not be confused with the famous painter of the same name, they are not related to the two.
The Palacio de Velázquez is a palace of considerable character, built in 1883 for the National Exhibition of Minerals, Metallurgy, Art, Ceramics, Glassware and Mineral Waters.
The winged flying lions on either side of the entrance resemble the Flying Lion of St. Mark, the patron saint of Venice. Today, it is lying in front of the Velázquez Palace, with its mouth open, as if shouting something hard?
The Palace of Velasquez has a very strong sense of art deco, beautiful tile puzzles, blue porcelain tiles around, all exudes a fascinating artistic atmosphere.
Leaving the two palaces, a short distance ahead, is a pool of beautiful water in the mouth of Sanmao. From a distance, the lake is blue and rippling, the boat leisurely swim in the lake to and fro ----- Rizhi Park is also named after this Rizhi water in the park.
There is a large group of monuments around the lake, the solemn Monumento a Alfonso XII monument to King Alfonso XII.
The monument group was built in 1922, the monument is about 32 meters high, the top of the Alfonso XII vertical horse hooves looking into the distance of the bronze statue; monument under a semi-circular corridor columns.
King Alfonso XII was one of the most revered monarchs in Spain's history, and his most important contribution was the adoption of the Constitution of 1876, which established the bipartisan political party system that exists in Spain today. The monument, which was erected in 1922 at the request of Alfonso XII's mother, is said to be of first-rate size and artistic quality.
From this angle, the white rectangular stone base is surrounded by sculptures of angels and virgins on each side; in front of the base is a bronze plaque inlaid with "King Alfonso XII".
Semi-circular colonnade on the top of the low bar, is a comic strip like relief, respectively, showing the king in industry, agriculture, art, science, army, navy and other aspects of the great achievements; below the two rows of snow-white round stone columns erected very dazzling.
In front of the King's statue on the near horizontal platform, four majestic bronze lions guarding the water; bronze lions under the mermaids and dolphins entangled with the bronze sculpture.
Looking at a pair of couples on the lake, I don't know why, I always feel that there will be Sanmao and Jose's figure. After all, when the first love José, it is here on the attack on Sanmao.
Ritz Park sculptures and fountains are many, but the shape of each fountain is different, the spray method is not the same, especially when the water note jumped up, encountered the sun, a gorgeous rainbow will quietly present.
One of the major attractions is the statue of the fallen angel El ?ngel Caído, one of only a few statues of the devil in the world. Beautiful angels, saints and celebrities statues have seen countless, the devil's statue has not really seen, very curious about what the devil looks like.
The Fallen Angel statue shows Lucifer, who was expelled from heaven, and this is the entrance to hell for those who believe in demonology.
We walked around and looked at the greenery, which was very pleasant. Unintentionally, we realized that the roads and plazas in the park are named after countries that are now Spanish-speaking, such as Avenida Bolivia, Avenida Venezuela, Plaza Nicaragua and Plaza Panama.
Suddenly, we saw that there was a group of trees on the side of the road that had been trimmed with a lot of character. Looking at it, I couldn't help but be in awe of the Spanish gardeners.
Lizhi Park is a bit similar to Beijing's Tuanjiehu Park or Zizhuyuan Park, and is a great place for locals to relax. Unlike in China, there are no noisy square dancers here, just groups of locals exercising.
Walking outside, I saw this curved mosaic bench, which immediately reminded me of the Plaza de Espa?a in Seville. This kind of collage of tiles, colorful, artistic benches can be found everywhere in Spain's major cities, and can even be called the plaza standard.
Ritz Park has a public **** library, really unexpected. Ritz Park is really rich in meaning.
Madrid is an ancient city that exudes an artistic and literary flavor, where you can travel through time and feel the glory and shame of a dynasty. It's a modern, civilized place, but it's still a fascinating blend of history and history.
Madrid is incredible! It is different from the classical and rigorous Oriental culture; different from the atmosphere and romance of European culture; different from the freedom and openness of American culture ------
Madrid, incredible! Its mystery is not the kind of mystery, but so open heart, but can not get close; want to love you, want to understand you, but always feel separated by thousands of mountains and thousands of water ------
Perhaps this is Madrid, its bright history, its gorgeous art, its unrestrained enthusiasm, only personal experience to get a glimpse of one or two.
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