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El Retiro neighborhood. It is located in the southeast of the city inside the M30 highway. The neighborhood takes the name after the park, which is the largest human park in Madrid. El Retiro was named World Heritage for UNESCO. In the 2021, it is also famous for its museums such as Prado and others.

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The park is famous for its natural beauty monuments such as El Palacio de Cristal,

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El Palacio de Velázquez and a lake where you can sail on a small boat.

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Originally it was called los Jardines del Buen Retiro and it was built in the 17th

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century as a retreat area for the royal family. In the Retiro neighborhood you

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can also find a botanic gardens which is over two centuries old. It was created to

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promote the knowledge of the botanic science. El Retiro neighborhood is an

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elegant resident area with commercial, cultural and gastronomic attractions.

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You can also find La Plaza de Cibeles that takes its name after the Greek god Cibeles,

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which you can see represented in a sculpture on the fountain.