• LEISURE: Four routes to get lost in the best parks in Madrid

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Legends, freemasons, ghosts, movies ...

History and fiction go hand in hand in every corner of Madrid

, whether real or dreamed.

Delving into its secrets is presented as a good way to say goodbye to the month of August in the capital of Spain.

Guided tour of the legendary Madrid

The night is one of the best moments to discover the other side of Madrid. When the sun disappears,

this route enters Espejo Street, the narrowest in the city, whose origin is related to the disappeared Moorish wall:

one of its Arab watchtowers was located in the place, and in Latin they were called

specula

, which also means mirror, what they say caused an error in the translation survives to this day. The next stop, in the Plaza de la Villa, takes the visitor to the old center of Madrid, where the Torre de los Lujanes is located, from the 15th century. Inside it is said that

Francis I of France

was arrested

after the Battle of Pavia.

The monarch was forced to enter through a side door, in order to have to lower his head ... Precisely that part of the body was the one that an old man who was praying in the church of San Ginés lost when he confronted some thieves in the 14th century .

Now many say they have seen its specter wandering through the rooms that once kept a crocodile

donated by

Alonso de Moltalbán

at the time of the Catholic Monarchs and that no one knows where it is now.

This and other legends are part of the tour, which costs 10 euros and can be booked here.

Walking tour of the Masonic heritage

At the foot of the Statue of

Carlos III

, in the middle of Puerta del Sol, a two-hour route begins through the history of Freemasonry in the capital of the Kingdom.

The visitor will be transported to the 18th century to learn about

the beginnings of Freemasonry in the city until reaching the great emergence of Masonic symbolism that occurred in the 19th century

, when the Freemasons began to leave their traces in the streets and buildings of Madrid.

The tour goes through the meeting places of the enlightened and their secret societies, hidden in the streets of the Barrio de las Letras, investigates the hermetic language of the Athenaeum of Madrid and reveals the mysteries that the Congress of Deputies houses.

It costs 10 euros and can be booked here.

Mysteries tour

"Stop there, show your face. What is the purpose of your mercy in the Villa and Court?" The bailiffs who guarded one of the access gates to the capital had to keep a good eye on who entered the city. Many of them did not even have time to unsheathe their Toledo. With a point blank arquebus shot, the mysterious thugs dispatched the guards who were guarding one of the entrances to Madrid. Or so they say ... That old gate gave way over time to the current Plaza de Pontejos, the starting point of this route in which

the strange story about a beheaded man and his hat

will be told

and the presence of a dragon will be analyzed. on the coat of arms of the old Madrid City Council

.

All this without forgetting the secret that a certain gentleman and his lover kept on Calle del Sacramento, the disappearance of a famous 17th century painter in Plaza Ramales or the origin of the Almudena Cathedral.

The tour is priced at 10 euros and can be booked here.

The ghost route

There is no evidence that the ghostly presence that in the 90s terrorized the night guards of the Linares Palace, current headquarters of the Casa de América, has reappeared. But

his memory has not faded inside the baroque and rococo living rooms, dining rooms and offices of the building

. But this will not be the only stop: the tour also addresses the ghostly stories of Calle del Desengaño, the church of San Ginés or the House of the Seven Chimneys: since the time of

Felipe II.

, a white specter appears on the roofs of the House of the Seven Chimneys.

It is said that she is Elena, the unfortunate lover of the monarch, the daughter of a montero who would also appear dead in the house.

These and other terrifying stories are the protagonists of a tour that costs 10 euros and can be booked here.

Cinema tour of series and movie sets

Bicycles are for the summer

,

Open your eyes

,

Stockholm

,

The great family

... The streets of Madrid have heard infinite times the "Lights, cameras, action!". The Plaza de Callao, under the famous Schweppes luminous poster that

Alex de la Iglesia

and

Santiago Segura

immortalized

in

The Day of the Beast,

is one of the highlights on a journey that does not forget the series either. La Gran Vía, another emblem of Spanish filmography, will move the public to

Velvet

, while the Telefónica building commemorates

Las Chicas del Cable

.

The legendary Chicote bar, the Hollywood branch in Madrid for legends like Ava Gardner, John Wayne or Frank Sinatra is another key point, whose mysticism defines the Arde Madrid series.

The tour ends at the Bank of Spain, an indispensable place for the millions of followers of

La casa de papel

, but not without first passing by the Metropolis building and the Círculo de Bellas, on whose roof Carmen Maura experienced her most extreme filming in

La Comunidad

.

The tour is priced at 10 euros and can be booked here.

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