Best places: Sculptures in Madrid, Spain

18th century neoclassical fountain depicting the goddess Cybele on a chariot pulled by 2 lions.

👍👍 Elevated place with interesting views in the Manzanares Linear Park, you can sit and spend a while, the park is very good.

😐 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...

👍👍 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...

👍 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.

Landmark bronze sculpture in a bustling city square featuring a bear & a strawberry tree.

Unveiled in the early-19th century, this striking neoclassical fountain depicts the god Apollo.

👍👍 I loved the small Christmas market there. Specially the Egyptian Booth. It was the most crowded one.

👍👍 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...

👍👍 Memorial monument to Miguel de Cervantes. Architect: Isidro González Velázquez Sculptors: Antonio Solá, José Piquer Duart, Wilhelm Hopfgarten and Benjamin Ludwig Jollage. Year: 1835 Material: bronze and stone. Located in the Plaza de las Cortes.

Writer, poet & musician Federico García Lorca is commemorated by this famous statue.

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

👍👍 Located on an island where several streets meet, the statue is about 17 meters high from the pedestal. Being in the middle of several busy streets in Madrid, it is difficult to access, you have to see and photograph it from several meters away, a commemorative sculpture in memory of Christopher Colu...

👍👍 Convenient central place in Madrid with a few famous statues and lots of people milling around. Sort of like Times Square of the clock at Flinders Street, Melbourne.

👍👍 Mythical tribute to one of the symbols of national rock, who in his day also starred on a Panzer cover. A must-visit pilgrimage if you pass through Vallekas.

👍👍 At night it lights up and the truth is that it has very beautiful views of Madrid. You can see the Almudena and the Royal Palace. The only bad thing is that now in summer it is in full sun and it is better to visit it at night, it will also be less crowded.

👍👍 Now this is a really quaint place in Madrid, located at the city centre, between the traditionally working class area of Lavapiés/Embajadores, and the boisterous and tourist-filled Puerta del Sol - Madrid de los Austrias zone. It is very multicultural, yet it retains the flavour of the old “Madrid...

👍👍 Monumento en memoria de las víctimas del atentado contra Alfonso XII y Victoria Eugenia. El rey Alfonso XIII contrajo matrimonio en Madrid con la princesa inglesa Victoria Eugenia de Battemberg el 31 de mayo de 1906. Tras la ceremonia religiosa los reyes iniciaron un recorrido por las calles de Madr...

This tucked-away green space with walkways & a fountain sculpture once belonged to a convent.

👍👍 Commemorative sculpture complex, inaugurated in 1926, work of the sculptor Victorio Macho. Built of granite, limestone and bronze, it is 5.6 meters high and 12.5 meters wide. The statue of Cajal is located in the center of a pond, reclining in the manner of Etruscan sarcophagus figures, like a class...