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Last minute touristy things
Because we’ve all finally finished exams and are preparing to have even more people slowly trickle out of Madrid, we’ve been trying to fit in some last minute touristy things that we either missed throughout the semester or are a … Continue reading
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Tagged a cappella, almudena cathedral, alonso martínez, art, ateneo de madrid, ayuntamiento, cable car, casa de campo, cathedral, cibeles, city hall, el rastro, flea market, golden triangle of art, la latina, lago, lago de casa de campo, lake, live music, madrid day, malasaña, market, microteatro por madrid, museum, music, open air, ópera, palacio de cibeles, plaza de cibeles, plaza de oriente, prado, rastro, reina sofía, royal opera house, royal theater, san isidro, sol, teatro real, teleférico, thyssen, thyssen-bornemisza, tierra, tierra burrito
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Archaeological Museum, Botanical Gardens, and Reina Sofía
The week following our trip to Valencia was another one filled with field trips and a paseo to sites around Madrid, including the Archaeological Museum and Reina Sofía with Paco and the Botanical Gardens with Kike. On Tuesday, Paco took … Continue reading
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Tagged archaeological museum, art, bakery, baza, colón, croissant, dalí, dama, dama de baza, dama de elche, dessert, easter, elche, falleras, field trip, food, french toast, garden, goya, greenhouses, guernica, holy week, iberians, joan miró, kike, lady of baza, lady of elche, lent, metro, miró, modern art, museum, napolitana, pablo picasso, paco, pain au chocolat, panadería, park, paseo, picasso, plants, plaza de colón, plaza de murillo, prado, real jardín botánico, reina sofía, royal botanical gardens, salvador dalí, semana santa, serrano, torrija, valencia, weather
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Weekend trip to Amsterdam
On Friday morning I woke up at 4:00am to take my first trip out of Spain since I arrived a month and a half ago. Madrid’s metro rail doesn’t run at that hour, but luckily there’s a 24 hour shuttle service … Continue reading
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Tagged amsterdam, amsterdam centraal, anne frank, anne frank's house, art, bloemenmarkt, botanical garden, canabis, canal, canal tour, canals, centraal, central station, cheese, coffeeshops, dam square, de wallen, drug policy, drugs, flower market, flowers, food, french fries, gedoogbeleid, gouda, heineken, heineken experience, hermitage, holocaust, homomonument, hop on hop off, hortus, hostel, houseboats, i amsterdam, ij, marijuana, market, metro, museum, museumplein, museums, nazi, nazis, nemo, nemo science center, netherlands, nl, party, plaza de cibeles, prostitutes, prostitution, red light, red light district, rijksmuseum, schiphol, secret annex, shuttle service, skinny bridge, smoking, st. christopher's in, stedelijk, stopera, stroopwafel, stroopwafels, trip, van gogh, van gogh museum, vip, wallen, weekend trip, winston, world war II
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Journalism field trip, Reina Sofía, and El Lobo de Wall Street
The last week has been pretty low-key. After staying up so late for the Super Bowl, the cold that I had been getting over came back with renewed fury and quite possibly a case of bronchitis, so I’ve been mostly … Continue reading
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Tagged abono, art, au, basque, basque country, class, dalí, elena, field trip, franco, guernica, journal, journalism, lobo de wall street, luis buñuel, mario, metro, modern art, movie, movie theater, movies, museum, netflix, news, pablo picasso, paco, país vasco, phone, picasso, reina sofía, salvador dalí, santiago bernabéu, stadium, trips, un chien adalou, un perro andaluz, v.o., v.o.s., wolf of wall street
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Madrid’s Prado Museum
The Museo del Prado is Spain’s largest art museum. It’s located right in the middle of Madrid, about a 10 minute walk to the east of Puerta del Sol and right off of Plaza de Cibeles, the night bus hub that’s also … Continue reading
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Tagged arqueological museum, art, art changes, bank of spain, christ washing the disciple's feet, class, dalí, disrobing of christ, el greco, elites, elitism, european art, goya, greco, hierarchy, kings, las meninas, monarchs, museo arueológico, museo del prado, museum, paco, patricia, picasso, plaza de cibeles, portraits, prado, puerta del sol, queens, reina sofía, retiro, royalty, royalty of spain, sol, spain seminar, spanish monarchs, thyssen-bornemisza, tintoretto, titian, velázquez
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First Paseo: Retiro Park and a Flamenco Class
Paseos por Madrid is another class offered as part of American University’s Iberian Experience that the Madrid Business Program students can participate in occasionally. Paseo is a Spanish word that means a walk or stroll, though its connotation is very … Continue reading
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Tagged andalucía, andalusia, art, atocha, boat, cats, class, dance, dance class, elena, franco, keke, monument, park, paseo, paseos por madrid, reina sofía, renfre, retiro, retiro park, tirso de molina
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Toledo and Segovia
One of the benefits of studying abroad in Madrid at the same time as the students doing American University’s Iberian Experience programs is that the ICADE students have the opportunity to attend the trips around Spain and Portugal that the others go … Continue reading
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Tagged alcázar, aqueduct, architecture, art, castilla y león, castilla-la mancha, castilla-león, castle, catcholic monarchs, catcholics, cathedral, christian, christianity, church, cochinillo, coexistence, culture, day trips, disney, el greco, engineering, fernando, harry potter, history, hogwarts, isabel, islam, jewish, judiaism, medieval, melting pot, monastery, moors, mosque, mountains, mudéjar, muslim, paco, patriarchy, religion, roman, rome, san antón, santo tomé, segovia, sierra de guadarrama, spanish language, suckling pig, synagogue, toledo, trip, visigoth
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