Thursday, May 8, 2014

Different Ages of Madrid

Madrid, as a capital, has had some different ages as well as some different parts in its town. They are these:

1. Medieval Madrid. This little part of Madrid include The plaza Mayor (Main Square), Plaza del Marque de Comillas, Torre de los Lujanes and Iglesia de San Nicolas de los Negritas.
It starts in Plaza Mayor. It grow up becoming in the Madrid of Austrians with more buildings.
Finally, it finished  in the Modern Madrid, where the most important things in town are and it is known by everyone.
 http://www.aboutmadrid.com/madrid/itinerary1.asp
2. Madrid of Austrians. This period is also called the Madrid of the Haspburgs.  Felipe II was the first Haspburg King. It includes:
  -El Convento de las Calzadas Reales
  -Puente de Segovia
  -Plaza Mayor
  -Casa de la Panaderia
  -Plaza de la Villa
  -Real Monasterio de la Encarnación
http://en.rutamina.com/tourist/El-Madrid-de-los-Austrias
3. Bourbon Madrid. The Bourbon dynasty was established by Felipe V in 1770.
You can visit in this part of Madrid some of the following places:
 -Museo del Prado
 -Casón del Buen Retiro
 -Casa de Correos
 -Fuente de Cibeles
 -La Puerta de Alcalá
 -San Francisco el Grande
 http://www.esmadrid.com/en/portal.do?TR=C&IDR=465
4. Modern Madrid. (This Madrid include suburb parts all around the city centre (Leganes, Pinto, Parla, Pozuelo, Mostoles, Getafe,...) and new modern areas) Also, this part of Madrid is the most modern of it and you can visit:
 -Banco de España
 -La Bolsa (the Stock Exchange)
 -Palacio de Comunicaciones
 -Gran Vía
For more information, you can go into the links up there. There are some different information about the different ages of Madrid.

These 4 ages have too many different sort of life. As you can know, people in the Medieval Madrid are not going to have same life than people who live in the Modern Madrid.

Here you have a map with the different parts of it.



Legend of the map:
Yellow part: Medieval Madrid.
Red part: Modern Madrid.
Light blue part: Bourbon Madrid.
Green part: Madrid of Austrians

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