business area of Madrid. This brand new property warmly welcomes guests in its comfortable common areas and lounges and provides them with an array of services that...
Easily accessible from the airport and the Juan Carlos I Conference Centre, the hotel provides an ideal base for business travellers or those visiting Spain\'s vibrant capital city. The modern Confortel Alcala Norte has a clay-colored façade. In El Fogon restaurant, modern Mediterranean cuisine served in a relaxed, informal ambience with marble floor and contemporary furnishings.
business area of Madrid. This brand new property warmly welcomes guests in its comfortable common areas and lounges and provides them with an array of services that include meeting facilities, laundry service, 24-hour front desk providing all sorts of tourist information, a cafeteria and a restaurant with an à la carte menu on workdays. The hotel is an ideal base for tourists and business people alike for it is well-linked to the rest of the city, the airport and the main business and trade areas of Madrid. The hotel features 212 sound-insulated rooms with ensuite bathroom. All of the accommodations are furhtermore equipped with individually controlled air conditioning, safe, ADSL Internet connection, Wi-Fi Internet access (only on the 4th floor), mini bar, satellite TV and heating. Disabled-accessible and non-smoking rooms, as well as cots, are available upon request. Some rooms feature a balcony. Even-number rooms overlook the courtyard, while odd-number rooms have views onto San Romualdo, Cronos and Julián Camarillo streets.
Advantages: Meet madrid! Disadvantages: Very expensive zone...
...Hi everybody!
Yesterday i was walking for my city, when I thought to writte you about this fantastic place... La puerta de Alcalá...
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La puerta de alcalá was builded for the King CARLOS III, (called the best Madrid's mayor) and designed for Sabatini at the year 1778.
The first Puerta de Alcalá was really used as door, but the actually monument is the builded by Carlos III, and is only a conmemorative monument.
The style of this monument is neoclassic.
It has three archs and two doors. And the materials are Spanish Granite and marble.
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It's at independence square (Plaza de la independencia) on front of Retiro's garden, a very turistic zone of our city...
Near it's Arqueological museum, a very interesting place for visit.
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...and to have a control of the goods that were taken into the city. There were some gates at this wall. The king Philip the Third married to the Princess Margarita from Austria, thus he decided to build a monumental gate to commemorate the marriage. It was called "Puerta de Alcalá" (Alcalá´s Gate), due to it had been built in the road that finished in Alcalá de Henares, nowadays declared World Heritage City by UNESCO.
As Carlos the Third, also known as "the best Major of Madrid" did not like the design, he ordered to demolish the gate, and another gate, bigger and nicer was built following the planes of Francesco Sabatini, the favourite architect of the King. This gate that has become a symbol of Madrid was finished in 1778.
This gate joins culture and history. May be when you are in front of the gate you think "oh, these Spanish people are a very...
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Advantages: An exciting city Disadvantages: can get hot in the summer
...Madrid is a great place for couples or friends on a short city break.
If you are looking at staying in Madrid you could do a lot worse than take a look at the Hotel Regina. The hotel is a 3 star establishment on Calle Alcala, which runs directly into the centre of the city at Puerto del Sol. In fact this hotel is little more than 300 yards from the centre of Madrid.
I stayed in a single room (though it had two single beds!) for around £40 per night in March 2001. For that I got the room, ensuite bath with over the bath shower, toilet and sink, cable tv including pay per view movies, cnn, eurosport and sky news, a radio, and an alarm clock.
A buffet breakfast was also included. I was able to choose from cereals, coffee and tea, orange juice, doughnuts, croissants, rolls with jams and butter, and a selection of meats.
When you...
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I have stayed here a few nights when arriving at Porto airport on evening flights. I have always found the rooms to be clean and of a reasonable size, with good bathroom facilities.
The staff are very friendly and helpful and will arrange a hire car... more
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