Running down to Atocha station, C/ Santa Isabel is one of Madrid’s most ‘castizo’ of streets. Absent of tourists but possessing cool markets and bars, Madrid’s most hip cinema, an historic convent and a world-famous art gallery – it’s easy to see why.
Mercado San Anton – for gourmet and regular groceries The Cine Dore dates from 1912. Aside from being a cinema, it’s also home to the Spanish Film Archive, and a friendly club-like bar. A Madrid institution, 60s-feel bar Monastery and school of Santa Isabel. The monastery was originally founded by Margaret of Austria (wife of Philip II). Today’s building, by Juan Gomez de Mora, dates from 1750. The Madrid Royal Conservatory. Home to Spain’s most senior school of music. Since 1990, housed in the former surgery department of the San Carlos Hospital – explaining the large windows. The world-famous Museo Reina Sofia, home to Picasso’s Guernica, numerous Dali’s and other greats of 20th-century art. The works are mostly housed in the former eighteenth century San Carlos Hospital.
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