Those who defend the Alkaline Diet do not recommend the consumption of cheese and even less so accompanied by red wine. However, what would be do if we had to follow every single health tip that we read every day in the press? With moderation, this food is an indispensable pleasure and if you do not want to combine it with red wine you can also do it with white win, Read full article
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From the contraction of breakfast+lunch we get the word ‘brunch’, a particularly good option on weekends and especially Sundays, when you do not have to get up early and when the fusion between breakfast and lunch allows for a day of sightseeing with maximum energy without having to stop to eat.
Timetables aside, Read full article
Categories: Gastronomía en Madrid
The star dish of Valencia’s gastronomy is also served in Madrid, because Madrid is a melting pot of all the different parts of Spain when it comes to food. In the early 20th century there was an ‘invasion’ of Basque and Catalan restaurants in the city, as Catalan writer Josep Pla remembers in his Madrid diary: “The Basques have two monopolies in Madrid: the banks and the restaurants”. Read full article
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Why cannot cemeteries be tourist sites? It is the case in Paris, where the cemeteries of Montparnasse or Père Lachaise (famous among other things for being the resting place of Jim Morrison) receive thousands of visitors every year. Another example would be the Colon Cemetery in Havana, declared a National Monument of Cuba.
In Madrid, Read full article
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What would the region of Madrid be without the Guadarrama Mountains? With permission from the people of Castilla-La Mancha, it would reminisce of the vast plains that Cervantes immortalised in his famous work, a bit repetitive for our souls. Luckily, Madrid has excellent communications with its mountains, the Sierra de Guadarrama, which allow for many excursions, Read full article
Categories: Guías Madrid, tourism
El Retiro Park has nothing to envy from other famous parks in the world. Integrated in the city today as one of its fundamental lungs, at the time of its foundation, its 358 acres (now 464) represented almost a quarter of the total size of the city, if one looks at the famous map of Teixeira from 1656. Read full article
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Madrid has enjoyed the privilege this year of having the two best teams in Europe, as Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid reached the Champions League Final, the biggest football competition in Europe. If the atmosphere on the eve of the great games was always special, this year it has been even more. A unique occasion to sample it from Hotel Ateneo. Read full article
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Would you like to start the morning at your own pace? You don’t fancy coming down to our restaurant to enjoy the first meal of the day? At Hotel Ateneo we have a breakfast-in-bed service so that your awakening in the centre of Madrid is as pleasant as possible.
If you’d like to enjoy our breakfast in your room and you are staying in some of our junior suite rooms, Read full article
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Calle Montera is a street that owes its name to the traditional bullfighter hat but, did you know why this garment has a street in Madrid? Here are some of the most popular stories, somewhere in between fact and fiction. Read full article
Categories: Guías Madrid, Sin categoría
If you have already visited Madrid more than once, it is possible that the guided tours are no longer interesting for you. Perhaps you do not like experiencing cities like a tourist anymore and you prefer a more authentic perspective of Madrid.
If you would like to live in Madrid like a true local, we propose three ideas for your next stay in Madrid: go to eat tapas, Read full article
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