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Madrid, a modern European city, where liveliness and art blend in a latin dance!

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Madrid, a modern European city, where liveliness and art blend in a latin dance! By Kon Hans Madrid is a mysterious and full of charm Spanish Lady.  She is stern and majestic, and at the same time sensual and cosmopolitan, but above all she knows how to welcome her visitors.  From the famed “ Golden Triangle of Art ” that unfolds in her centre with the three big museums: Prado, Reina Sofia (MNCARS) and Thyssen Bornemisza, to the huge evergreen park “ Buen Retiro ”, and from the alternative, lively and with the omnipresent artistic spirit, neighborhood of  Chueca  to the frantic nightlife district of  Huertas , where thousands of bars and discos open their doors and let the latin rythms pour out, Madrid offers absolutely everything; except of course the sea. Madrid´s City Hall However this absence has forged its Castilian temperament.  Situated high in its plateau – it’s difficult to imagine that Madrid has an altitude of 700 m.! – she gazes at the yellow-red plai