Madrid train station - Estación de Atocha

El Rey de los Tacos

Mike ordering two @ Mercado de San Miguel

We arrived on the night that Madrid turned on their Holiday lights ... all the major streets and plazas.

Jockeying for a glimpse of the (electric?) auto timed racing trials.

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"Julia" - 12-meter sculpture by Jaume Plensa

Puerta de Alcalá - formerly a gate along the city wall

Jacinto Benavente monument - dramatist, journalist, Nobel Prize for Literature

Jacinto Benavente monument

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Francisco de Goya - renowned Spanish painter

81k capacity, Santiago Bernabéu Stadium of Real Madrid

Game night, Real Madrid team bus arrives

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Plaza de España

Gate into Plaza Mayor

Plaza Mayor

One of the long lines throughout the city for the big, holiday lottery "El Gordo" (btw, tickets are in packs of 10, for sharing with your relatives, all sharing the same lottery number)

Almudena Cathedral

Barrio de Malasaña

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