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.

Dusk over Salamanca & Recoletos

Five-star hotels in Salamanca & Recoletos

2 hotels

Rosewood Villa Magna

Five-star · Salamanca & Recoletos

Rosewood's 1972 Castellana landmark, reborn in 2021 – Amós by Jesús Sánchez and Las Brasas de Castellana in the house, Salamanca's grid at the door.

From $1,000 per night

BLESS Hotel Madrid

Five-star · Salamanca & Recoletos

Palladium's 111-room house on calle Velázquez, in the heart of Salamanca – a rooftop pool above, Martín Berasategui's Etxeko below.

From $500 per night

The neighborhoods

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.

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