I have been in Madrid in may 2004.
As I have written in a previous post, I like the good energy here: Madrid is a city full of live, and in may there are many artistic festivals in main streets and in some parks also, to celebrate San Isidro, the patron of Madrid.
City is full of old pubs, with young and older people together.
It seems to me another world after Covid pandemic, but this is the normality, we should remember it!
This is Taberna Blanco:
And here Bodega de la Ardosa, opened in in 1892:
Here Palacio Real de Madrid: it is the residence of the Spanish royal family in Madrid:
The palace is huge: it has 135,000 m2 of floor space and contains 3,418 rooms, it is the largest active royal palace and the largest by floor area in Europe. Here the park all around it:
Another point of interest is the Pantheon de Goya, to celebrate the great artist:
No hay reglas en la pintura:
lo mismo que la poesia.
Escoge en el universo
aquello que encuentra
mas apropiado a sus fines. (Goya)
Here one of his masterpiece: Maya desnuda.
No rules in arts... No rules in true life. Sometimes too much knowledge is not useful, knowledge without experiences could trap us in a space too much ordered and rational, where fantasy and creativity can't explain themselves in the better way. We must become like children to watch the world with a new and different way, every day.
Here some shoots in the city center: Cines Callao, Metropolis building, and an amazing grafiti showing ghost palaces between real ones.
Here a commemoration of the terrorist attack happened in Atocha railway station in march 2004. It moved me, it was still a open wound in the flesh of this city...
The 2004 Madrid train bombings (also known in Spain as 11M) were a series of coordinated, nearly simultaneous bombings against the Cercanías commuter train system of Madrid, Spain, on the morning of 11 March 2004—three days before Spain's general elections. The explosions killed 193 people and injured around 2,000. The bombings constituted the deadliest terrorist attack carried out in the history of Spain and the deadliest in Europe since 1988. The official investigation by the Spanish judiciary found that the attacks were directed by Al-Qaeda in Iraq, allegedly as a reaction to Spain's involvement in the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. Although they had no role in the planning or implementation, the Spanish miners who sold the explosives to the terrorists were also arrested. (from Wikipedia)
And here a child in typical clothes...
... and some artistic stands and festival along the streets and the parks, everywhere. Art first of all! The human being is 50% body and 50% soul!
A special way to create t-shirt!
My soul has grown here, in this special city that gives value to its history, arts and memory. Where you can find people who gifts to you a poem, humanity is not lost yet.
Analogic pics taken with Nikon Fe2.