Sinuous streets, low-rises, street-stores, friendly folk
... This is your new universe
- In this, your new neighborhood, you may have to get used to the grocery-store owner greeting you by your first name.
- You may have to get used to hear children laughter from the street all the way to your living room.
- You may change your pace of living with dozens of coffee shops tempting you within a short walk.
The Plaza of Cascorro is the epicenter for all cultural, commercial, political and religious events in the neighbourhood, and their respective rituals will unravel in front of your eyes as you witness them from the comfortable and advantadgious point of any of the six balconies overlooking the main plaza and the street of Embajadores.
- Chinese New Year
- Procesión de Semana Santa (Easter Procession)
- Romeria del Rocio (Rocio Pilgrimage)
- Rastro (Sunday's Craft Show & Flea Market)
Surrounded by amenities
With the best foreign-film movie theater in town Yelmo Cineplex Ideal just a 15 minute walk from your apartment, you have access to all the current offering in their English, French, Chinese original splendor. If a live show is your thing, you have several theaters 5 minutes away in all directions... Or one of our own favorite hang-outs: The Café Central with nightly Jazz concerts.
La Latina (just around the corner from the Plaza) is so chock-full of restaurants and avant-garde Tapas Bars that will be too many to list. Make use of the following Street Finders in Madrid (in order of preference) to find all the neighborhood has to offer.
Well connected
You have the choice of two subways stops within two minute stroll: The Tirso de Molina station of the Subway Line 1 (Light Blue), or the La Latina station of the Subway Line 5 (Light Green). From the first one you have direct access to the main train station of Atocha just three stations away! (Barely 15 minutes door-to-door)
Location magic
The apartment is precisely located on 40°24'37.79"N Latitude 3°42'25.54"W Longitude. If you have Google Earth installed on your computer, this file will take you there (Download and open with Google Earth):
