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The Plaza Mayor (English: Town square) is a major public space in the heart of Madrid, the capital of Spain. It was once the centre of Old Madrid. [ 1 ] It was first built (1580–1619) during the reign of Philip III .
The street consolidated as one of the specialised commercial streets in the city centre by the early 20th century. [4] The image of the northernmost end near the Plaza Mayor became a part of the Antifascist collective memory with the photograph of the ¡No pasarán! banner [n. 1] hanged in the street during the Spanish Civil War. [5]
The Calle Mayor was the place where the guilds of silversmiths and jewelers concentrated. [4] In the 18th century, the street was divided in three sections with different names: Almudena (from the alcázar surroundings to the Plazuela de la Villa ; Platería (from the plazuela de la Villa to the Puerta de Guadalajara), and Mayor (from the ...
Façade of the Casa de la Panadería. The Casa de la Panadería is a municipal and cultural building on the north side of the Plaza Mayor in Madrid.It is four stories high, the ground floor comprising porticos and the top floor in the form of an attic, with its sides crowned by angular towers.
The following is a timeline for Google Street View, a technology implemented in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides ground-level interactive panoramas of cities. The service was first introduced in the United States on May 25, 2007, and initially covered only five cities: San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, Miami, and New York City.
Immediately to the southwest lies the Plaza Mayor; the Palacio Real, the official home of the Royal Family, is further west. Parliament and the museum district are to the east and the train station Atocha is to the southeast. Under the square lies a public transport hub served by lines 1, 2 and 3 of the Madrid Metro.
First and foremost it is a shopping street; however, it also contains a number of tourist accommodations, plenty of nightlife (including Madrid's large goth scene), many of Madrid's largest movie theaters and live musical shows. It is also a hub for Madrid's red-light district, as it links many side streets. One of these streets, calle ...
San Miguel Market is the most popular market in Madrid among tourists since it is located in the centre of Madrid, within walking distance from Plaza Mayor.The market is not a traditional grocery market but a gourmet tapas market, with over 30 different vendors selling a wide variety of freshly prepared tapas, hams, olives, baked goods and other foods.