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The Royal Palace and Habsburg Madrid in Madrid

The court that made Madrid a capital in 1561 and still occupies the whole centre.

Picked and checked one by one by the team that has been hosting guests here for 16 years. Booked through our partner Civitatis, at the same price as on their site.

Royal Palace ticket The largest royal palace in Western Europe, still in official use. It closes without notice for state events. Check availability → Royal Palace with audio guide The rooms have almost no labels. Without the audio guide you walk through without knowing what you are looking at. Check availability → Royal Palace guided tour With a guide you come in by the main staircase and grasp the order of the rooms, which is not accidental. Check availability → Royal Palace + Almudena They face each other. The cathedral was finished in 1993, which explains why it resembles no other. Check availability → Royal Collections Gallery Opened in 2023 and still missing from older guidebooks. The building, buried in the hillside, is worth as much as what it holds. Check availability → Royal Collections guided tour What is inside came from palaces across half of Spain. With a guide you learn where each piece is from. Check availability → Liria Palace Home of the House of Alba, open to the public since 2019. Goya, Rubens and Columbus’s letter, in a lived-in house. Check availability → Descalzas Reales convent An enclosed convent in the very centre, with the royal daughters who took vows and their art inside. Check availability → Royal Monastery of La Encarnación It keeps the reliquary said to liquefy every 27 July. Other than that, it is always empty. Check availability → The Royal Kitchen The palace kitchen, untouched since Charles III. Visited separately and almost nobody knows. Check availability →

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