MADRID WALK along Gran Vía from Plaza de España | Spain

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  • A first-person perspective Madrid walk tour in the city centre from Plaza de España, then along the whole of Calle Gran Vía, Madrid's famous shopping street, ending at Edificio Metrópolis (Metropolis Building).
    Filmed in July 2018, on a weekend.
    The tour route consists of:
    00:00 Plaza de España
    06:10 Calle de la Princesa
    07:20 Calle Gran Vía
    14:35 Plaza del Callao
    15:46 Calle Gran Vía
    26:06 Calle Gran Vía junction with Calle de Alcalá
    Sights seen along the tour include:
    00:10 Cervantes Monument
    02:21 Bronze sculptures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
    02:31 Stone sculpture of Aldonza Lorenzo
    03:27 North-eastern side of the Cervantes monument
    04:44 Torre de Madrid (Madrid Tower)
    04:49 Edificio España (Spain Building)
    05:15 Fountain with greek nymphs
    07:05 Plaza de España Metro entrance
    08:46 Hotel Senator Gran Vía
    10:02 Lope de Vega Theatre (showing The Lion King)
    12:44 Castilla-La Mancha tourist information
    15:04 Cines Callao - movie theatre
    15:08 Carrion Building (Capitol Building)
    15:20, 15:51 Callao Metro entrance
    16:51 Hotel Atlántico Madrid
    19:53 Telefónica Building
    20:08 Gran Vía Metro entrance
    26:06 View towards Madrid's City Hall
    26:21 Edificio Metrópolis (Metropolis Building) (on left)
    26:21 Edificio Grassy aka Rolex Building (on right)
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Komentáře • 150

  • @watchedwalker
    @watchedwalker  Před 5 lety +13

    *Thank you to those of you who have supported this channel by making a donation via my Ko-fi page (**www.ko-fi.com/watchedwalker)**, it’s much appreciated and helps me to continue to make these videos :)*
    *The tour route consists of:*
    00:00 Plaza de España
    06:10 Calle de la Princesa
    07:20 Calle Gran Vía
    14:35 Plaza del Callao
    15:46 Calle Gran Vía
    26:06 Calle Gran Vía junction with Calle de Alcalá
    *Sights seen along the tour include:*
    00:10 Cervantes Monument
    02:21 Bronze sculptures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
    02:31 Stone sculpture of Aldonza Lorenzo
    03:27 North-eastern side of the Cervantes monument
    04:44 Torre de Madrid (Madrid Tower)
    04:49 Edificio España (Spain Building)
    05:15 Fountain with greek nymphs
    07:05 Plaza de España Metro entrance
    08:46 Hotel Senator Gran Vía
    10:02 Lope de Vega Theatre (showing The Lion King)
    12:44 Castilla-La Mancha tourist information
    15:04 Cines Callao - movie theatre
    15:08 Carrion Building (Capitol Building)
    15:20, 15:51 Callao Metro entrance
    16:51 Hotel Atlántico Madrid
    19:53 Telefónica Building
    20:08 Gran Vía Metro entrance
    26:06 View towards Madrid's City Hall
    26:21 Edificio Metrópolis (Metropolis Building) (on left)
    26:21 Edificio Grassy aka Rolex Building (on right)
    ...

  • @alexeiromanov2250
    @alexeiromanov2250 Před 3 lety +11

    SUPERB CITY! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏Madrid is my favorite city in Europe. Salutations from, USA.

  • @santigala3452
    @santigala3452 Před 4 lety +26

    For me it’s the most fun city in europe. From Switzerland

  • @MrMexijorge
    @MrMexijorge Před 4 lety +21

    Is it just me or people in madrid is very beautiful?

  • @juandavidduran957
    @juandavidduran957 Před 5 lety +30

    VIVI MUCHO TIEMPO EN ESTA CIUDAD...Y SIEMPRE ME GUSTO DISFRUTAR DE TODA LA GRAN VIA...ES HERMOSA

  • @soumyadipghoshal6917
    @soumyadipghoshal6917 Před 4 lety +11

    Incredible city.

  • @jaimegarcia9408
    @jaimegarcia9408 Před 5 lety +53

    Madrid is incredible city, historic and modern, to Gran via the best avenue in Europe.

    • @odalrich
      @odalrich Před 5 lety

      The best avenue in Europe is the Champs Elysée, Paris. Gran Via is OK but a bit too noisy.

    • @jaimegarcia9408
      @jaimegarcia9408 Před 5 lety +13

      @@odalrich what ? My arquitech brother visit París and talk that elysseus is sobrevalue, for my the gran via is more beautiful , better building etc is my opinion.

    • @elzorro8787
      @elzorro8787 Před 5 lety +2

      One of Europe's great avenues.
      I would argue the liveliest in Europe.

    • @Pablo260492
      @Pablo260492 Před 5 lety

      @@odalrich Champs Elysees are violence with yellow shirts

    • @mihai0377
      @mihai0377 Před 5 lety

      That's the best joke i ever heard in my life... Gran Via the best Avenue in Europe buahahahahah

  • @WannaWalk
    @WannaWalk Před 5 lety +34

    Fantastic Madrid ❤️ 🇪🇸

  • @tacertxa4018
    @tacertxa4018 Před 5 lety +38

    Madrid sky is beautiful , painted by Goya it seems

  • @MattUK36
    @MattUK36 Před 5 lety +35

    Gorgeous Madrid.

  • @HannahGracielaTV
    @HannahGracielaTV Před 3 lety +3

    I'm in love with the buildings😍💖 Beautiful Madrid🇪🇸❤️

  • @shahbazmalhi8874
    @shahbazmalhi8874 Před 3 lety +8

    I LoVe Spain
    Madrid and all city spanish Love from Pakistan 🇪🇸🇵🇰🇪🇸🇵🇰❤️💋

  • @coleinone5959
    @coleinone5959 Před 5 lety +17

    Wow that is beautiful!!

  • @TheKikogomez
    @TheKikogomez Před 5 lety +7

    muy buenos todos los videos me veo caminando yo,enhorabuena, de madrid al cielo

  • @namakuhani_
    @namakuhani_ Před 3 lety +2

    Beautiful busy city💓 🇪🇸

  • @MrJasanfer
    @MrJasanfer Před 2 lety

    Hace 70 años que vivo en Barcelona , pero sigo siendo de Madrid

  • @oumarsow2143
    @oumarsow2143 Před 4 lety +4

    Nice city

  • @sasateresa9886
    @sasateresa9886 Před 3 lety +1

    Oh i can’t wait to go back! Fantastic videos.... loved London during Christmas .

  • @tarabtatryb7673
    @tarabtatryb7673 Před 4 lety +7

    Me ha encantado mucho este vídeo,pues siento como si estuviera yo mismo caminando de veras por las calles de esta hermosísima ciudad , enhorabuena por el vídeo es de verdad super super super guay

  • @alexiagalaxy1986
    @alexiagalaxy1986 Před 5 lety +5

    Me encantaría visitar.....

  • @leefunglan5287
    @leefunglan5287 Před 5 lety +3

    like it very precise description for all the shops along the metro. thanks!

  • @jokochan8279
    @jokochan8279 Před 5 lety +8

    I like watching your videos every week 👍

  • @MissMellyVee
    @MissMellyVee Před 5 lety +10

    Another stunning walk sweetie :) thanks for taking us with you :)

  • @davidcrespo3412
    @davidcrespo3412 Před 5 lety +23

    Madrid and Paris the most amazing cityes in Europe for me. Paris the first and Madrid the second one. Architercture and culture are superb

    • @jaimegarcia9408
      @jaimegarcia9408 Před 5 lety +3

      and london friend. I from spain, but London is much city.

    • @davidcrespo3412
      @davidcrespo3412 Před 5 lety

      @@jaimegarcia9408 Exactly London at the same level

    • @Pablo260492
      @Pablo260492 Před 5 lety +12

      @@jaimegarcia9408 No tires nuestra tierra, los españoles tiramos nuestra tierra y los ingleses defienden la suya a capa y espada. Qué pena, así nos va.

    • @Pablo260492
      @Pablo260492 Před 5 lety +2

      True 👏👏👏👏🇪🇸

    • @elzorro8787
      @elzorro8787 Před 5 lety +1

      What does London is much city mean.
      Que mal aprendeis Ingles

  • @Ms-zr1dn
    @Ms-zr1dn Před 5 lety +6

    I’m becoming an addict to this channel, and I just discovered it today! The Plaza de España you show at the beginning is going to change completely very soon (almost everything but the foutain). It will be a big park connected to the Sabatini Gardens close to the Royal Palace. This square is underused now, it is surrounded by crowded streets, and people just don’t cross it to go there. On the background the big building is the Edificio España, it is under renovation to become a luxury hotel, and a mall too.

    • @watchedwalker
      @watchedwalker  Před 5 lety +2

      That sounds wonderful, I look forward to seeing it once it's completed.

    • @Elena-Immaculata
      @Elena-Immaculata Před 3 lety

      It's been Hotel España since before 1970.

  • @silviaartidiello5858
    @silviaartidiello5858 Před 3 lety

    Amo Madrid ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙅🏻‍♀️👏🤝🇲🇽

  • @frnckkfrnckkk
    @frnckkfrnckkk Před 5 lety +36

    Madrid es una ciudad más limpia y bella que París

    • @mk123418
      @mk123418 Před 5 lety +9

      I'm French, and you're right, Paris is Dirty, and not better than another cities in Europe. I'm not Parisian so that's the reason why too.

    • @egutiguti3337
      @egutiguti3337 Před 5 lety +9

      OVD Beatz. Como español te digo que las dos ciudades son preciosas. París es única y monumental.

    • @pepiluci75
      @pepiluci75 Před 5 lety +7

      @@mk123418 I am from Madrid and I do not like comparisons. París is extremely beautiful, but hey, Madrid has its very own charm, independently from Paris.

    • @genitoreycontreras4964
      @genitoreycontreras4964 Před 4 lety +1

      En la época de la Carmenaestaba un poco abandonada, ahora las cosas han mudado. No si han resuelto el problemas de los manteros africanos.

    • @PabloGarcia-ly7pm
      @PabloGarcia-ly7pm Před 3 lety

      Ya nos gustaría. Madrid es preciosa y única. Pero París está a otro nivel.

  • @lourdesgalarzaordonez2254

    Saludos gracias por Compartir sus excelentes vídeos

  • @yassincaballero1289
    @yassincaballero1289 Před 5 lety +4

    Hala Madrid

  • @djemiaiimene2682
    @djemiaiimene2682 Před 3 lety

    It s wonderful

  • @laidnassira4962
    @laidnassira4962 Před 5 lety +8

    Thank you ...your video is amazing

  • @patrickloja
    @patrickloja Před 3 lety

    I miss you Madrid

  • @hoosomio
    @hoosomio Před 3 lety

    De Madrid al cielo.. Real

  • @ll7868
    @ll7868 Před 4 lety +2

    20:38 Pink shorts and red shoes don't go well together, do they? The purple bag doesn't help either. I kinda got a Freddie Mercury vibe from the guy with that strut though.

  • @kbst8411
    @kbst8411 Před 3 lety

    Madrid...the Seoul of Europe.

  • @AnthonnyAlexanderJarquinLunaJa

    haha amazing

  • @EstebanQuito86
    @EstebanQuito86 Před 4 lety

    ¿Alguien sabe cómo se llama la canción que se escucha de fondo en el minuto 14:47 ?

  • @redabenguityt9709
    @redabenguityt9709 Před 2 lety

    جوينا مدريد

  • @Arnel_A67
    @Arnel_A67 Před 5 lety +3

    😊👍❤

  • @petarpetrov1508
    @petarpetrov1508 Před 5 lety

    Tenx for video

  • @silviaartidiello5858
    @silviaartidiello5858 Před 3 lety

    ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🤝🇲🇽🇪🇸

  • @bluceree7312
    @bluceree7312 Před 3 lety

    Interesting how in London the demographics are a bit different than in other cities. In Madrid for example you can see a wide variety of ages walking the younger and older folks. In London it is less spread, mostly between 20 - 50 and you very rarely see someone in their 80s or even 70s.

    • @paulolosed2122
      @paulolosed2122 Před 2 lety

      Spain has the third highest life expectancy in the WORLD. People usually live to be 95 years old.

    • @bluceree7312
      @bluceree7312 Před 2 lety

      @@paulolosed2122 yes that is true. And also the age distribution in the UK are younger than Spain. There is a theory that those born after Franco i.e. after 1975 will have lower life expectancy because of their usually less healthy life styles, more smoking and more alcohol. but this is just a theory and we will see what happens to life expectancy numbers in 3-4 decades when these people start to die. will they reach 95? I myself might be dead by then, lol.

  • @alihesham8391
    @alihesham8391 Před 3 lety

    This is how to record with a camera on the phone

  • @informationgiant7697
    @informationgiant7697 Před 5 lety +2

    Walker I want you to have slight conversations while walking with people it will give a sense of reality.

    • @watchedwalker
      @watchedwalker  Před 5 lety +4

      You could always talk to yourself while watching :)

    • @elzorro8787
      @elzorro8787 Před 5 lety

      Touche Walker.
      Love your videos just as they are.

  • @alihesham8391
    @alihesham8391 Před 3 lety

    People looking them and egketet

  • @ronmosely8355
    @ronmosely8355 Před 5 lety +3

    Where are all the locals?? that area looks spooky, like a sci fi city made for tourists

    • @BlackHoleSpain
      @BlackHoleSpain Před 5 lety +10

      If Spain gets 82 million tourists a year, you can expect them to be everywhere. The locals are working, obviously. We DO work, you know. By the light of the sun, you can estimate is a morning before noon, and it's a weekday. Even that, I think half of the people in the video are locals, a sixth are immigrants and the rest are tourists. However, that area was deeply affected by construction works, and people has tried to avoid them for months from March to November 2018. Now the works are finished and the place is quite different. Hopefully Watched Walker can make a visit the next year.

    • @elzorro8787
      @elzorro8787 Před 5 lety +5

      Ha ha ha.
      Between July and August the city certainly becomes more calm than usual as so many locals desert the city for cooler climes.
      Madrid is usually difficult to beat for its dynamism especially in the evenings.
      Usually after 8 pm you can barely move in most of the city centre it's that packed.
      With a nightlife that's just beginning while the rest of Europe is sleeping.
      Madrid is rightly known as one of the liveliest cities on earth.
      I've travelled alot and I've yet to see a city that's as lively

    • @abertalbert7219
      @abertalbert7219 Před 5 lety +4

      80% in the video are locals :)

    • @juanasenjo1677
      @juanasenjo1677 Před 5 lety

      And what do the "locals" look like.? I'd say at least 80% of them are the so-called "locals". Can't you tell.?

    • @juliosalazar6924
      @juliosalazar6924 Před 4 lety +4

      @@juanasenjo1677 if he is American, he thinks Spaniards look like mexican native indians, so all white people in the video are foreign tourists and none of them are Spanish

  • @pablolanchares1976
    @pablolanchares1976 Před 4 lety +1

    Los edificios parecen hechos de merengue 24/9

    • @GF-yh9tb
      @GF-yh9tb Před 2 lety

      Parece por el foco de luz.

  • @patrickfitzgerald2861
    @patrickfitzgerald2861 Před 4 lety +1

    Looks great for shoppers and foodies, but too much stone, brick, concrete, asphalt and traffic for me.

  • @jimmywells33
    @jimmywells33 Před 4 lety

    Rude people do not share the sidewalk and the vandals who did the graffiti should be castrated.

  • @a.b.2958
    @a.b.2958 Před 5 lety +2

    I prefer to see your London videos.

    • @watchedwalker
      @watchedwalker  Před 5 lety +2

      I post London videos every Monday.

    • @a.b.2958
      @a.b.2958 Před 5 lety +1

      Are you based in London?

    • @watchedwalker
      @watchedwalker  Před 5 lety +1

      Yes, the non-London videos are from my travels.

    • @watchedwalker
      @watchedwalker  Před 5 lety +1

      You’re welcome Amador, I’m not stopping the London videos :)

    • @a.b.2958
      @a.b.2958 Před 5 lety

      Okay. May I suggest that you go to other less popular areas of London such as Plaistow.

  • @MIMGAMES2021
    @MIMGAMES2021 Před 5 lety

    barcelona es mas glamour en sus negocios que madrid paseo de gracia

    • @cristinaravet3706
      @cristinaravet3706 Před 4 lety +7

      La Gran Via no es una calle de glamour, es una calle turística e histórica además de ser sede de los mejores musicales de España, muchos antiguos cines. Para glamour vete a la calle Serrano y sl barrio de Salamamca. Si conocieras Madrid lo sabrias. Te podría decir que hoy en dia Madrid es más interesante que Barcelona en ese sentidi que solo está llena de turistas.

    • @raul46170
      @raul46170 Před 4 lety +1

      paleto. aprende a escribir

    • @marekck
      @marekck Před 4 lety +6

      Eso porque lo dices tú.... Madrid es más ciudad que Barcelona, mejor arquitectura, y los edificios en,cualquier calle de Madrid, en Barcelona sería iluminado y resaltado como algo especial .. y en la gran vía hay locales y negocios que ya le gustaría aL paseo de Gracia

    • @luisgabrielbugallo2186
      @luisgabrielbugallo2186 Před 3 lety

      Pues para toa, toa, tu barcelona

    • @joseantonio3122
      @joseantonio3122 Před 3 lety

      La Gran Vía actualmente está que da pena, con la mayoría de las persianas d los comercios grafiteadas, los nuevos semáforos invadidos de papelitos de anuncios y pegatinas ; los nuevos bancos empiezan a grafitearse. Una pena que esto pase en una ciudad tan bonita,.con una arquitectura espectacular. Ahora están en obras en la plaza de España. Que pasará cuando esté terminada? . Ahí lo dejó.