Don Quixote Quest Experience in Madrid

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1. The Plaza Mayor is a major public space in the heart of Madrid, the capital of Spain. It was once the centre of Old Madrid. It was first built during the reign of Philip III. Only a few blocks away is another famous plaza, the Puerta del Sol. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

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2. The complex preserves the name of Puerta Cerrada through which the Christian wall of Madrid was opened here , during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and which was demolished in 1569, on the occasion of Isabel de Valois's entry into the city . wife of Felipe II. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

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3. The square was created in 1926 as a result of the demolition of several buildings around the Old Customs square and the attached square of La Leña (later Calle de la Bolsa), including the Convent of the Trinitarios Calzados and the fish market of Almidón . After the expansion, the palace of the Five Major Guilds built by Manuel de la Ballina in the 17th century, became the property of the Bank of Isabel II , and when this bank merged with that of San Carlos , it gave rise to the first headquarters of the Bank of Spain . At the beginning of the XXI century it houses the General Directorate of the Treasury. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

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4. The Saint Sebastian Church or Iglesia de San Sebastián is a 16th-century church in central Madrid, Spain. It is located on Atocha street, #39. The name arises from a devotional chapel which was found along the route to the Basilica of Nuestra Señora de Atocha, founded in 1541. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

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5. The House-Museum of Lope de Vega is a writer's house museum in the former home of the "golden age" writer Lope de Vega, located in Madrid, Spain. The sixteenth-century house was bought by the writer in 1610. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

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6. The childhood home of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra now houses a museum dedicated to this great master of Spanish literature, recreating the customs, traditions, and everyday life of the 16th and 17th centuries. This museum dedicated to the author of Don Quixote also houses an important bibliographic collection with editions of Cervantes’ work from different periods and in different languages, exhibited in the temporary exhibition room. There is also a consolidated programme of activities such as workshops for children and teenagers, conferences, plays, and musical shows. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

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7. Writer Miguel de Cervantes was buried at the convent in 1616. His remains were temporarily transferred elsewhere in 1673 during rebuilding, and were then lost until forensic scientists discovered them in 2015. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

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8. It features monuments to Spanish Golden Age writer Pedro Calderón de la Barca and to the poet and playwright Federico García Lorca and numerous restaurants, cafes and tapas bars, with its terraces covering most of the sides surfaces. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

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Cancellation

Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.

Reviews

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How it compares in Madrid

• Its from-price is 95% below the median of the 1722 experiences we list in Madrid.
• It is shorter than most of them.
• By number of reviews it ranks 650 of 1722.
• The operator lists free cancellation on it.

About Madrid

Madrid is Spain's sunny, sociable capital, home to great art museums, royal palaces, leafy parks and tapas bars that stay busy past midnight.

Three great galleries line the Paseo del Prado: the Prado Museum with Velázquez and Goya, the Reina Sofía with Picasso's Guernica, and the Thyssen-Bornemisza with its sweeping private collection. Beside them, El Retiro Park offers a boating lake, shaded avenues and the glass Palacio de Cristal.

Top-ranked sights in Madrid: Plaza Mayor, Royal Palace of Madrid (Palacio Real de Madrid), Puerta del Sol.

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