Madrid 100 curiosities

In which part of the Retiro did women duel? Which was the first public park to be built in Madrid? Which monument in the Villa hid, for centuries, a time capsule? Were there mammoths by the Manzanares? How many millions of pesetas did the Gran Vía works originally cost? These and many more answers await you inside this book. Madrid is not only a city with an intense and varied history, it also hides in its streets and in its past an endless number of curiosities worth knowing. Striking and unusual facts that reveal its most endearing side. This book brings together a thousand of these amusing notes that, in some way, have also contributed their grain of sand to the history of the town and that are sure to surprise you. Are you up for discovering them?

Publisher: Kami