Depends on your gusto, you may able to explore your Spanish pleasure variety throughout the City from parks to monuments to museums, all of these deal excitements. Specifically for museums enthusiasts, the most up-to-date news in Madrid is the controversial copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s painting Mona Lisa.

The Prado Museum being the most popular museums in Madrid, this becomes the top cultural sight of art galleries. The Mona Lisa is one of the greatest art works in the world. The Prado museum has no idea as revealed in the news about the significance of this particular painting’s copy, which was painted in the same studio and in similar time as the original painting was painted.

One of Leonardo da Vinci’s students was the alleged painter of the duplicate painting. The significant work was revealed for many years now when a recent restoration exposed the hidden layers. The 16th century original painting was first hang in Louvre in Paris, until the Prado museum made known the secret by Ana Gonzalez Mozo at a congress at the National Gallery in London recently.

Mozo said that the painting in Prado museum was “much more relevant than we thought’. She said “it’s thought that Da Vinci’s pupil could have been documentation his master, copying him as he painted the original, the modern word would be streaming.”

From the 16th- 17th centuries, there are lots of Mona Lisa copies but the Prado museum in Madrid now gives the impression of being the most out of the ordinary. According to art experts, the Madrid painting is Mona Lisa’s twin sister and is not just a first-hand copy.

If you like to observe the Mona Lisa painting that’s being most-talked issue, you have to begin book for your reservations. Hotels in Madrid City centre are always available to give you a space. Make sure not to miss the exhibition this February 21 in Prado Museum. The said painting will then be traveled to Louvre in London for next exhibit between March 29 and June 25. The chance is yours to see the new mysteries from Mona Lisa’s enigmatic smile.

The entire metropolises in European countries, you can count in the City of Madrid as one of the enormously touristy destinations and full of zip. How about traveling to Madrid this Christmas season? The climate during winter in this city is perfect as an escape from those cold places.

Climate in Madrid during winter season has an average temperature of 32 to 62 degrees Fahrenheit, which is much better than the other places with temperature as high as 36 to 37 degrees Fahrenheit in Munich and Germany. Though it is not warm enough to consider a getaway during this season there are locations that can cater you best experience in winter and/ or Christmas events.

In Madrid City, throughout this season there are less travelers visiting here. Consequently, you have all the chance to make the most of your vacation days around the metropolis in some of this location within:

Plaza Mayor

This is ideal when you like to join the people to market. There you can choose items to purchase at more than one hundred stalls filled the Plaza for the event of Madrid Christmas Market annually; a large numbers of vendors selling different kinds of materials including the dresses and costumes too for the said upcoming biggest grandeur celebration of Christmas.

Fortunately, you do not have to jumble with the crowds because you won’t see lots of tourists but only few of the locals buying important stuffs for Christmas ornaments, which is basically a Spanish tradition in Spain. Bumping on the incidents occurs in the market is a nice memory to treasure. The concept of the Christmas Market event is already deep-rooted dates back to 1860s as the capital’s celebratory scene.

Madrid Christmas Tips

There is no shortage of Madrid activities in the city especially when the month of December comes to March. Hotels in Madrid City centre usually offer off-season rates and even to other types of places to stay. Winter season here is quite cold at night so you better check a specific accommodation that is worth to stay with a proper heating room. Regarding on clothes to wear, you have to dress up warm clothes such as sweaters and boots to prevent cold penetrates in your body.

People who are shopaholics, sightseers, art lovers, and night junkies are travelers who mostly visit Madrid for certain purpose during their vacation. However, travelers absolutely want to make the most of their flee time without unnecessarily emptying their wallets, for this, what you need is proper planning. Few things are vital to be considered in order to skip important fun to experience in Madrid.

One thing for sure, a place to stay is the initial arrangement to organize, and integrating it with your can-afford need, there are Madrid apartments that suggests affordable rates but for cheaper accommodation, hotels in the current are offering excellent value for money; thus, the most excellent way to achieve this is choosing real low-priced as hostels can be.

According to the latest deals in Madrid – the HostelBookers made to public the best budget hotels internationally. They are one of the budget accommodation specialists that have wide-ranging lists of numerous properties such as some of the finest quality budget hotels generally in Europe.

Obviously in Madrid, which is a home of amazing Spanish eating places in Europe, time after time many restaurants here feature several of the mouthwatering cuisines originated in the country and the world. More and more travelers love the metropolitan to greater extent because the opportunity to try vast and wide variety of traditional gastronomy is rich out here.

There are couples of the city’s oldest restaurants around within the neighborhood that have been in business enduring for a century now. Chefs inherited the traditional cuisines from the expert ones in cooking methods like a roast lamb which is cooked in a unique wood-fired oven.

What are good about Madrid restaurants aside from the foods they served are their authentic fine dining rooms. The architecture still be appropriate in this type of places such as stunning brick cellars and more, that able to perk up your day astounding!

You can see ample quantity of locals and tourists mingle in from one another, in which you yourself can take it as a chance to build acquaintances. So to make everything well-planned, from the accommodation to the restaurants it may be a good thought to call ahead for and set aside a space or a table.

One of the looked-forward hotels of such expansions includes the Suite Novotel and All Seasons, including Sofitel.

According to Juan Carlos Delgado, Accor’s managing director of Spain, they have planned to have “have 100 hotels here by next year and 130 by 2013.” The company really finds Spain a suitable place for building prestigious hotels because of some reasons. They actually deem the country as the third-largest tourist destination in the world, while it ranks fourth in the number of hotel rooms.

Could you believe it? That’s how amazing Spain is, and Madrid is one of the target places where these hotels will be established!

Based on fact again, Accor also is opening more upscale properties in Spain and recently implementing its medium-stay Suite Novotel in the southern Mediterranean coastal city of Malaga. In fact, they are even planning this 2013 to build a hotel at Madrid’s Barajas resort. The other hotels, including All Seasons and other hotels are scheduled in various placed in Madrid, including Zaragosa.

This is certainly good news for those who are searching for a new job occupancy during the process. As per statistical rates, the country’s occupancy will rise up from 6.9% to 60.9%, with an average daily rate up to 1.8%. Incredible isn’t it?

So don’t hesitate to come to Madrid and be astonished of its amazing features. Today, you will be seeing the successful city; but 3 years from now, it will surely boom to its highest level and become even more successful than today.

Madrid has indeed much to discover with its wide array of places and tourist spots to consider. Don’t miss your chance in coming here because you will definitely have a good time! Search for Madrid travel guide.

To belong to the four finalists was already an honor to Madrid. It only shows that Madrid as a city indeed has something to offer for the world to see and rediscover. Madrid’s popularity goes beyond boundaries and history.

But the question remains… Will Madrid’s Popularity enough to host the 2016 Olympic? Every city has something to flaunt; what makes Madrid’s assets surpass other cities?

Let us take a closer look of Madrid.

• Madrid offers a banquet of culture and history with 133 museums. That some of these museums are given just even minutes away from each other. Reina Sofia, Thyssen and Prado among the most famous among them all.

• Madrid has three world heritage sites just an hour away from the city.

• More or less 3,000 restaurants which the guest can chose from that complements many nightclubs, theaters and shops.

• The city can be accessed the easiest compared to other finalist. Spain’s capital is an easy access by cheap train travel of other location in Europe.

• Madrid hotel accommodation is over 65,000 established to go up to 80,000 on the year of the Olympic. Hotel rooms are an element considered in the award criteria of the International Olympic Committee which the city meets easily.

• The metro system of the Madrilenos is the most modern and avant-garde in the continent. With 15, 000 taxis to cater to the would-be guest on the Olympic not to mention the Barajas airport which is one of progressive airport in Europe that caters to 142,000 passengers on a daily basis on an average.

This information is just a tenth of what Madrid has to offer. Add more. What do you think made Madrid the perfect city for the Olympic?

It was said that the model then loves the Spanish ambiance and hospitality and loves to eat the Spanish food being served to her.

Cinderella- Daniela Cott- would indeed fall in love with Madrid’s charm. Though Spanish language is nothing new; she was surprised with the distinct attraction and beauty that is uniquely Madrid. And she plans on a Madrid travel with her family as soon as she is through with her busy schedule next year.

Not only the Argentinean Cinderella Adores Madrid but also the Danvers Seniors are planning to visit Madrid on their tours for 2009. Including a Madrid city visit with AVE; Madrid travel tours include a visit to other locations- Granada City, Costa del Sol, Toledo and Alhambra Palace.

If the impressionable Cinderella falls for Madrid with seeing only a portion of it- You will definitely fall head over heels with your Madrid travel.

To start off, do not miss the most famous and favorite rendezvous place of the Madrilinos- Puerta del Sol. The starting point of Spain, as they say you measure Spain in here. The Easternmost Gate, Puerta got a historical significance built under Habsburg Kings.

Plaza Mayor is architecture to behold. Woo to those who miss such a natural proof of man’s creativity. The plaza is already complete in its creation. It became the Spanish citizen’s central point. Carnivals, Bullfights, ceremonies, and festivities are being held.

Prado Museum is just one of the many museums that museum connoisseurs can ogle at. Great piece of information and artifacts that you bring with you from this museum; the works of El Greco, Botticelli, Velasquez, Goya and Rubens are just a few. A visit to Madrid museums does not end your Madrid travel but just a spice to it.

A few here in Madrid means so much for you.