Centro, Canalejas & Paseo del Prado

The old center and its museum mile – Puerta del Sol and Plaza de Canalejas, the Barrio de las Letras running downhill to the Paseo del Prado, and along it the Prado, the Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Reina Sofía, with the Botanical Garden and the Retiro behind – with the other two.

Golden hour over Centro, Canalejas & Paseo del Prado

Five-star hotels in Centro, Canalejas & Paseo del Prado

2 hotels

Four Seasons Hotel Madrid

Five-star · Centro, Canalejas & Paseo del Prado

Four Seasons inside the seven-building Canalejas ensemble, a few steps from Puerta del Sol – Dani García's Dani on the roof, a 1,450 m² spa below.

From $1,000 per night

Mandarin Oriental Ritz, Madrid

Five-star · Centro, Canalejas & Paseo del Prado

The 1910 Ritz beside the Prado, reopened by Mandarin Oriental in 2021, with Quique Dacosta's Deessa in the house.

From $1,000 per night

The neighborhoods

Salamanca & Recoletos

The grid east of the Castellana – Serrano, Velázquez and Ortega y Gasset with their tailors and jewelers, Paseo de Recoletos and its cafés running down to Plaza de Cibeles, the National Library and Plaza de Colón at the district's edge, and the Retiro at the foot of every north–south street – with two of the four hotels.

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