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Walks in Castellana.

One editor-picked walk through Castellana, plus nearby routes for the same morning if you want to keep going.

Cibeles to Nuevos Ministerios — fountains, Colón, and an open-air sculpture museum under a bridge.

Nearby

Other walks close to Castellana.

Sorted by distance from the start of the castellana axis: the great north-south spine. Good for stitching together a longer day.

A grand café with a literary past, the national library, and the gardens at Colón.

Three of the world's great galleries, two fountains, and a wall that breathes.

Madrid's early-twentieth-century showpiece — the Metropolis dome, the cinemas, the rooftops, down to Plaza de España.

Madrid's most confident barrio, a glass food market, and the design shops down to Fuencarral.