Malasaña, Conde Duque and Debod sunset: a walk in Madrid

Free city museum and Baroque doorway, the Romanticism garden, vermouth at 1890s taverns, an aristocrat's palace-museum and sunset at the Egyptian temple.

Best time: Afternoon, finishing at the Temple of Debod for sunset

The route, stop by stop

1
Museum of the History of Madrid
Free; the 1830 city model; 40 min.
Free city museum behind the most ornate Baroque doorway in Madrid (Pedro de Ribera's former hospice), with a huge 1830 scale model of the city by León Gil de Palacio.
2
Museum of Romanticism
Or just its garden café; 40 min.
A furnished 19th-century townhouse that shows how the Madrid bourgeoisie lived in the age of Larra, with a garden café that locals use as a secret retreat.
3
Bodega de la Ardosa
Vermouth and tortilla; 20 min.
Tiled tavern from 1892 with draught vermouth and beer and an award-winning tortilla; to reach the back room you duck under the bar.
4
Casa Camacho
A 'yayo'; 15 min.
Tiny Malasaña bar open since 1928, famous for the 'yayo' (vermouth, gin and soda); packed with locals at weekend aperitivo time.
5
Cerralbo Museum
The ballroom; 60 min.
A 19th-century marquis's palace left exactly as he furnished it, crammed with paintings, armour and a gilded ballroom; Madrileños love it as the city's most intact aristocratic…
6
Temple of Debod
Sunset over Casa de Campo; 30 min.
A 2nd-century BC Egyptian temple from Nubia, given to Spain in 1968 and rebuilt stone by stone; the park around it is Madrid's favourite sunset spot.

Walking directions

Malasaña, Conde Duque and Debod sunset

The route, stop by stop

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