El Escorial, more than a palace or a monastery, was since the beginning a monument, actually a building built and decorated to commemorate a victory (Saint Quentin), as a filial tribute (from Phillip II to Charles V) and serve as symbol of a family's power (the Habsburgs).

Madrid Original ® proposes a 2-hours walked guided tour across Retiro Park. We will discover the remains of the Royal Domain of Buen Retiro, and we will learn how the Gardens of a Royal Palace were transformed into a public park through the 19th century, as a symbol of the passage from an absolutist regime to a liberal monarchy in which bourgeoisie and popular classes adopt aristocratic hobbies adapted to their economic capacity.

Madrid Original ® proposal for a guided tour through Medieval Madrid consists in a 2-hours walked tour from the old walls of the 9th century Islamic fortress to the 15th century palaces facing Alvaro de Bazán's statue.

Madrid Original ® proposes a walked guided tour through Habsburgs' Madrid consisting of Austrian rulers period (1515-1700) monuments (palaces, churches and convents) around the most representative of them all: the Plaza Mayor ("the Great Square") with its impressive bronze statue of king Philip III. The Palace of Uceda, the Chapel Saint Isidro and Carboneras Convent would be other major points of interest on our itinerary. Booking in advance would allow entry to interesting spaces usually closed to the public.

Madrid Original ® proposes a 2 hours walked guided tour along the Gran Vía. The Gran Vía is like a small museum of Spanish architecture from 1912 to 1959, when the city tried to look modern and started to look for inspiration in such different place as Paris, London or Chicago. The evolution of architecture as the Gran Vía was being erected and advanced from west to east, ran parallel to the evolution of Spanish history.

Madrid Original ® suggests a 2 hours walked guided tour through Bourbons Madrid (1700-1833) around the Royal Palace. From the Count-Duke's Barracks to Saint Francis the Great, most Bourbons monuments in the area will be examined, including the Cathedral of La Almudena. We will see how the different ideologies of the 18th and 19th centuries have inspired the creation or modification of the buildings.

Sorolla is the main representative of what could be considered Spanish Impressionist, although the concept doesn't fit absolutely to the Mediterranean light sea-side views which made him famous all over the world. He was specially appreciated in the United States, where the founder of New York Hispanic Society, Archer Milton Huntington, was his close friend and protector.

The Museum of the Fine Arts Royal Academy of Saint Ferdinand exhibits the collection of the academic institution where, for instance, Goya taught and Picasso took lessons. As this institution existed even before the Prado, works of Art expropriated (for instance, to the Jesuits during the 18th century or to the ex-Prime Minister Godoy in 1816) had the Royal Academy as natural destination.

The Lázaro Galdiano Museum is a little gem held in a Neo-Renaissance palace in aristocratic quarter "Barrio de Salamanca". 

Madrid Original ®'s private guided visit to the Encarnación monastery will highlight the value of the works of art preserved within the convent's walls. The paintings and sculptures in their original locations will reveal all their religious symbolism and deliver all their anthropolical interest.