Buen Retiro Park

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4. Children (Under Age 3)

Translated as ‘Park of the Pleasant Retreat’, Buen Retiro Park is a complete sightseeing experience on its own. It’s the main park in the city of Madrid and covers an area of 350 acres. The park is filled with monuments and sculptures, it has its own gallery and plays host to a wide variety of events. The park has a peaceful lake and is an oasis of calm right in the middle of a busy city.

Renting apartments in Madrid can offer several options to the discerning visitor; ideally placed for the whole city, apartments in Madrid located near Buen Retiro Park offer some lovely views.

The fountain of the fallen angel is located in the rose garden known as the Rosaleda Rose Garden. This monument is famous due to the fact that it’s the only known public monument of the Devil. It was sculpted by Ricardo Bellver and was inspired by a passage from John Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’.

Renting apartments in Madrid near to Buen Retiro Park also allows easy access to the many events that take place there. From free concerts at the bandstand, to annual book fairs and even puppet shows, there will be something to suit all tastes. Apartments in Madrid are easy to find and there are many privately owned homes available for both long and short term lets.

Other attractions in Retiro Park are the Cason Del Buen Retiro and the Museo del Ejercito, which are two of the few remaining buildings of the old Buen Retiro Palace. These buildings now house museum collections. The Ejercito is home to Spain’s most well known army museums and even houses ‘La Tizona’ which is the famous sword used by El Cid, a well known Spanish Warrior. There are also displays of artefacts from Christopher Columbus’s voyages to the New World.

Retiro Park is also the home of the Forest of the Departed (Bosque de los Ausentes). This is a memorial monument to commemorate the victims of the terrorist attack on 11 March 2004.

Apartments in Madrid located near the Buen Retiro Park are also ideal for seeing the other park wonders, such as Paseo de las Estatuas which is translated at ‘Statue Walk’. Here the sightseer will find many statues of Kings, which were sculpted between 1750 and 1753, and were at one time housed at the Royal Palace. A large artificial pond is located next to the monument to King Alfonso XII, which has a state of the King on a horse surrounded by a semi circular colonnade.