Top rated Monuments in Madrid, Spain to elevate your visit (Updated December, 2023)

Top rated Monuments in Madrid

Experience the best that Madrid has to offer with our curated list of top-rated places. Sorted by average review scores from venues boasting over 30 reviews, these establishments promise exceptional quality and experiences to elevate your visit in the city. This list contains 27 places from Monument category.

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Monument to Alfonso XII

Monument

Built in 1922, this monument in Buen Retiro Park features a colonnade with an equestrian statue.

4.70 (2.8K reviews)

Monumento a Blas de Lezo

Sculpture

👍 Está realizado en bronce por Salvador Amaya, cuenta con siete metros de altura y 35000 kilos de peso, descansa sobre un pedestal de granito obra de Quintana de la Serena. Blas de Lezo aparece tuerto de un ojo, impedido de un brazo y cojo de una pierna y vestido con uniforme de la época.

4.70 (396 reviews)

Puerta de Alcalá

Monument

Triumphal arch near to Parque del Buen Retiro & rich with stone carvings & elegant sculptures.

4.60 (51.1K reviews)

Fountain of the Fallen Angel

Monument

Landmark 1877 sculpture depicting Lucifer falling from heaven, plus a fountain with gargoyles below.

4.60 (8.2K reviews)

Monument to Goya

Monument

😐 Fans of Francisco Goya will want to see the monument of the Spanish Old Master outside the north entrance of Museo do Nacional del Prado. The statue is facing the ticket queuing area of the museum. This bronze of Goya is the work of Spanish sculptor Mariano Benlliure (1902) and depicts an aged Goya...

4.60 (1.4K reviews)

Monument to Felipe IV

Monument

👍👍 Very cool monument with an interesting story: Philip IV wanted the sculptor to sculpt him on a horse that his hind legs are raised. The sculptor didn't really know how to do it, because it was very complicated at that time. So the sculptor, Tacca, wrote to his Italian friend Galileo Galilei. Galile...

4.60 (867 reviews)

Monumento a Velázquez

Monument

👍👍 Monument to Velázquez, tribute to Spanish artists promoted by the Círculo de Bellas Artes. It was built in 1899 by Aniceto Marinas. He welcomes you at the main door of the National Museum of El Prado on Paseo Del Prado. You no longer enter through there but through the nearby Goya Gate. It seems to...

4.60 (279 reviews)

Las Ventas Bullring

Bullring

Bullfighting arena built in the 1920s in neo-Mudéjar style & used for bullfights, concerts & events.

4.50 (34.9K reviews)

Toledo Gate

Monument

Gate built in the Neoclassical style to honor Fernando VII, with stone arches & statues.

4.50 (16.5K reviews)

Statue of Don Álvaro de Bazán

Monument

👍👍 This statue stands in tribute to Álvaro de Bazán, the 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz de Mudela, a Spanish Naval Admiral. He is noted for his contribution to the expansion of the Spanish Empire and said to have never been defeated in battle. A remarkable feat considering his fifty year long naval career....

4.50 (226 reviews)

Statue of Jacinto Benavente

Monument

👍👍 Marvelous

4.50 (159 reviews)

Temple of Debod

Monument

Ancient Egyptian temple & museum moved from Aswan & rebuilt in lush parkland, with sunset views.

4.40 (55.2K reviews)

Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales

Monastery

1500s royal monastery with a museum housing holy relics & works by Titian, Rubens & Caravaggio.

4.40 (2.5K reviews)

Porta de Sant Vicent

Monument

Traffic circle centered on a replica of a monumental gate from 1726, with a major rail hub nearby.

4.40 (665 reviews)

Monumento a los Caídos por España

Sculpture

Memorial obelisk honoring those slain during the May 2 rebellion against French troops in 1808.

4.40 (329 reviews)

Monumento to Martínez Campos

Monument

👍👍 This statue stands in tribute to Arsenio Martínez-Campos y Antón, a Spanish officer who distinguished himself in various wars of the late Spanish Empire as well as the part he played in the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty. The statute is located Parque Retiro, amongst the many fine statues, foun...

4.40 (323 reviews)

Monumento del Pueblo de Madrid a la Constitución Española de 1978

Monument

👍 Impressive monument to the Constitution of '78, it is a cubic piece measuring 5 meters on a side with a reinforced concrete structure covered with white marble slabs from Macael (Almería), its interior is empty and its visible faces are pyramidal inwards, with steps on the lower part, in the upper o...

4.40 (144 reviews)

Monumento a los Abogados de Atocha

Monument

👍👍 The hug: monument to the victims of the attack of January 24, 1977, in which a group of neo-fascist hitmen murdered four lawyers and a trade unionist linked to the Communist Party of Spain and seriously injured four other people. Erected in the Antón Martín Plaza, a few meters away from the office w...

4.40 (75 reviews)

Pantheon of Illustrious Men

Museum

Neo-medieval 1800s cloister with marble sculptures & tombs of Spanish politicians & soldiers.

4.30 (1.2K reviews)

Fuente de los Delfines

Fountain

👍👍 There is no square in all of Madrid with a better fountain than this one to celebrate your team's triumphs in, it's a shame that they are rare lately. Must visit.

4.30 (639 reviews)

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Top rated Monuments in Madrid, Spain