Gran Via

Hello hello! If you are gonna spend a few days in Madrid I'm pretty sure that you are gonna walking around Gran Vía street. One of the most well known areas by tourist and shoppers, Many shops set up by first-quality houses are found on Gran Vía, for example, ZARA, CUSTO, SFERA, NIKE, LEVIS, LACOSTE and so on. Also, the streets off Gran Via have always boasted of a very lively commercial activity, so shoppers can find clothes stores, shops selling souvenirs and accessories, all mixed with cinemas, bars, restaurant, cafeterias and hotels. The street is located in Madrid downtown and it leads from Calle de Alcalá until Plaza de España. Gran Via in a commercial and entertainment epicenter of Madrid and one of the most unique places, you can find all kind of weird people doing everything. We experienced different and funny situations walking around Gran Via.  From my point of view some of the most hot points in Gran via are the point start of other small street such as Fuencarral Street where is locateld one of the most extravagant markets, Montera Street knows by the huge amount of prostitutes and sex shops and Plaza de Callao where are located lot of malls and about six movie theaters. One of them, the Capitol, is located in a beautiful Art Deco building.

So, If you like the architecture, Gran Via is full of beautiful and stunning building, is realy noted for the grand architecture prevalent among many of its buildings. It is considered a showcase of early 20th century architecture, with patterns ranging from Vienna Secession style, Plateresque, Neo-Mudéjar, Art Deco and others. Sadly nowadays most of the theaters are closed and being replaced by shopping malls.

If you want to get a great and pretty representative memories from this street, you should take picture of the Grassy bulding at the beginning of Gran Via, the Metropolis Building next to it and designed by the french architects Jules and Raymond Fevrier. At the last part of the Gran Vía, in the Plaza España you can find the Telefónica headquarters.


My last tip! probably in you walk you are going to feel thirsty, so if you want to save money on drinks and snacks, in parallel streets you can find many Chinese stores