Madrid Day 2

The Museo Geominero is around the corner. The building is amazing. And there are a few dinosaur bones, mammoth bones, fossils and a lot of rocks.
After a tostada and café cortado I went walking. I ended up at Parc Oeste and the Civil War Bunkers. No signage, no explanation - you need to know they are there.
I continued on to La Casa de Campo, a huge park across the river and the M30 big road.
If you know where to look, there are more sites from the Civil War, at the top of the hill of course. Decaying concrete bunkers and trenches. Makes for a great mountain bike park in 2023. The war in Madrid was a stalemate. The Nationalists bombed central Madrid from Casa de Campo and Parc Oeste, but didn’t occupy the city until the remaining Republican areas of Spain surrendered.
It was getting hot, and luckily there is a metro station by the lake in the park.Läs mer