Madrid's population is right about at 3.3 million people and with the
thousands and thousands of people that come in every single month to experience
the Spanish lifestyle siesta fiesta and whether it's pretty impossible to
get a location that is secluded and completely alone
however we are gonna go into some of my favorite places that you're not gonna
find on these big tourist lists to get a little bit more of a local experience in
Madrid Spain I'm Kat Theo and today we're getting into ten of my favourite
places to visit in Madrid as an adopted Spanish local let's go my first place on
my list that you have to go is called la Temecula de la thermic Elena is located
in in Baja Lotus it's one of my favorite places to go at in mature of all time
and it's actually surprisingly not too crowded with tourism Baca later was
built in 1790 and it used to be a cigar factory hence the name tobacco later
tobacco tobacco later that's how it got its name the building was abandoned for
many years until it was squatted by a group of people that are now responsible
for the loss of accolade Oh but one thing that's really popular is
getting lost in the graffiti art tunnels in the basement you can also walk around
the patio outside where you can find artisans that are making different
sculptures or doing different creative activities they also have classes that
you can partake in like dance classes soap making classes and everything else
under the Sun they also have lots of free concerts that happen here on every
Sunday they have a hip-hop concert that I used to go to all the time they also
have painting and open free markets that you can experience to help out the local
artists in the area honestly you can go to lots of tobacco Lita every single day
and experience a completely new thing everything in locked about glitter is
free however a lot of the classes are based on a tipping system so if you like
your class and don't forget to leave a tip and the
markets are also free but obviously if you want to buy something you're gonna
have to pay for that second place that you should definitely visit while you're
in Madrid is La Casa de las Avada las abhava is a market that is a hundred and
thirty years old and you can wander around there and pick up some local food
it's a little bit more expensive than your average grocery store in Madrid
however if you go onto the other side of the market you have La Plaza de la serda
is a cultural plaza where you can explore it's pretty much conjugated by
young people under the age of you know thirty they have a basketball court a
soccer court they have a lounging area and many times of the month they have
activities such as concerts and cultural fairs and this class is actually where I
learned how to dance the afro-brazilian martial arts dance
kappa raid on top way de compañía the third place on my list that you should
definitely go visit is a parque de las siete tip us this place is located in
what do they might yet Gus this is where I actually used to live when I lived in
Madrid and this has one of the best views of Madrid that's not populated by
tourism so this area is very very local it's just right outside of the suburbs
of this community and on a very clear night you can see all of the city which
it's like every night is a pretty clear night you can go up there and look over
the city it's also really great to watch a sunset because there's almost nobody
there you can grab a blanket you can put it down and just watch richard sunset
just go down in I also mentioned this place in my other
video so definitely go check out that video for some other great places in
Madrid to go visit okay my fourth place that you should definitely visit is on
Lafeyette o el mapa dado is used to be a slaughterhouse that's hence the name
mafia dope killer killer house and lots of them
slaughterhouse but they now turned it into an Arts Centre it's huge it's
literally it's so big you can always find something to do here they have all
kinds of things always happening in this centre as far as events in food fairs
and markets and film festivals and galleries there's just so many exhibits
here that each month I think it's always changing and the different exhibits so
you can go every single month and experience a new different type of thing
they also have cafes and food there so if you get hungry you can eat it's a
very nice place to also just right around your bike or skate around it's
very family-friendly and it's also very dog friendly as well my 5th place is
modern feel my dread Rio or Madrid River this is in principio is just it's so
beautiful and it's so well kept the landscape it's just pretty much like
this giant park alongside the river and they have a really cool bridge that's
really pretty for its architecture and I really like much of Rio for the
afternoons or on the weekend just because you have people skating all the
time people running you can ride your bike it's very family friendly and dog
friendly if you have any pets it's really relaxing to hang out here and
sometimes you have people music play music and street performers and it's
just really relaxing away from Torres my sixth place is like us in San do that I
also talked about this in my other video but this is also a social center that's
located in in Baja larezo touch' area they have many different art expositions
and different courses that you can take and galleries that you can look at that
are all based around Spanish culture so lock customs and easie it's all
surrounded by Contemporary Art in different contemporary in
in social madness placeless develops particularly to support young artists
'as in Madrid so I did mention in my last movie that they were hosting free
Spanish classes back in the day this year I don't know if they're still doing
that so you should definitely go check out their website to see if they still
have free Spanish classes if you are interested in them
number seven is Casa de Campo Casa de Campo is the largest public park in
Madrid and actually one of the largest public parks in all of Europe
it has over 1,700 Hector's so it's huge all that space includes an amusement
park a zoo and aquarium and obviously the park itself you can also take a
cable car up to the top and back down and you can see beautiful views of
Madrid on a clear day which is like every day and for going up and down as
only six euros my eighth place that you should visit that's not so touristy is
called Parque de Oeste it's just behind the temple visit both and that's kind of
like way--is principio area but this park every time I've been
is almost empty it's usually just me and a few other families it's full of
flowers so this park in general is mostly flowers and it smells just so
good as soon as you walk to the park it's just smells so nice and oh it's
just a really lovely park that you don't see many tourists go to it does close I
think maybe around 8:00 so keep that in mind if you want to go it's but it is
beautiful during the day to go my ninth place is Faraday Moncloa and this is
obviously located in Moncloa this is in the north part of the city centre so
this is an observation deck that you can go up and see a different perspective of
the city because it's on the north side you're gonna see different buildings in
a different perspective and if you go to the park for the elastic that does
because that's on the south side of the city and now you're on the north side so
if you do want to see a different perspective
to get different pictures this is a really great place you can go this is
not free it does cost three euros to go up but I definitely think it's worth it
and you can only stay for 30 minutes but every time I've been up here I don't
really pure English being spoken I don't really hear totally I don't really see
tourists either so this is a really great place
to kind of get great views of the city away from all the crowds of people okay
my last in 10th place you should visit in Madrid to avoid the crowds is a
fondazione one March this is a foundation that was created by Juan
March or Athena's he was one of the bridge he was the richest man in Spain
at the time now he's not alive if he created this foundation to support and
to support and encourage Spanish culture to be continuously learned about from
you know by people all around the world they have tons of different expositions
they have jazz and classical concerts you can listen to they have film
showings and lectures and different kinds of talks as well all of the things
at the phone bastion they want March is 100% free this place is located in North
Balboa okay that's all of my 10 places to visit in Madrid if you want to get a
little bit more of a local experience hopefully I share with you some new
places that you've never been and are interested in seen do you let me know
some other places enricher that you love to go that aren't so touristy because
I'm always trying to find some more places to kind of go show the people so
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