The First-Timer · Elena · Madrid
Gran Vía
Everyone walks Gran Vía; few look at it. Walk it at dusk with your eyes up and it's one of the great European avenues.
Madrid's grand early-20th-century boulevard — theatres, rooftops and the city's most cinematic façades. Walk it at dusk, looking up, not into the chain-store windows.
— Elena, The First-Timer
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