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J. L. Gamallo. Hasta los años 80 del siglo pasado en Madrid aún sobrevivía un comercio de tipo tradicional, especialmente en las calles del centro, en las cercanías de la Puerta del Sol y la Plaza Mayor, recuerdo de cuando Madrid era la sede de la corte y de la administración del reino. Madrid era el centro al que venia la gente de provincias a conocer las últimas novedades en la moda, el comercio y los espectáculos. Así en la calle Mayor había muchas sastrerías militares, dada la cercania de la capitanía general, librerías.

J. L. Gamallo. Find accommodation in a central location with a minimum level of quality is not always easy, despite the abundance of supply. The Hostel Horizonte has a strategic position in the historic center of Madrid, in a place with literary connotations, south of the Plaza de Santa Ana, the neighborhood of letters or of the Muses, since they lived in the great figures of Spanish golden Age, as Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Cervantes, Calderon de la Barca, Quevedo, Gongora, etc..

J. L. Gamallo. Certainly The Prado Museum is the most visited museum in Madrid, not in vain is one of the first museums worldwide. The image of tourists patiently queue for storing and it has become customary for transiting the Museum. For those who want to enjoy a world-class museum, no queues and no influx of people, nothing better than a visit to the Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, at the beginning of Alcala Street, a couple of minutes from the Puerta del Sol. The visit really worthwhile, and Wednesday morning is free.

J. L. Gamallo. El Museo del Prado es el museo más visitado de Madrid, y no en valde es una de las primeras pinacotecas del mundo. La imagen de los turistas guardando pacientemente cola para entrar ya se ha hecho habitual para los que transitan por el Museo. Para los que quieran disfrutar de un Museo de primera categoría, sin colas y sin afluencias de gente, nada mejor que acercarse al al Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, al principio de la calle de Alcalá, a un par de minutos de la Puerta del Sol.

J. L. Gamallo. Across the center of Madrid tapas bars abound, particularly in the Plaza de Santa Ana and the surrounding streets. It is possible to recommend recommend some places near the hostel Horizonte, special sites either by seniority, history, decoration, or the excellence of its tapas (snacks).

J. L. Gamallo. En toda la zona centro de Madrid abundan los lugares de tapeo, y sobre todo en la plaza de Santa Ana y las calles próximas.Vamos a recomendar algunos lugares cercanos al hostel Horizonte, muy recomendables ya sea por antigüedad, historia, decoración, o la excelencia de sus tapas. En la calle Huertas está la que acaso sea la taberna más antigua de Madrdid, Casa Alberto, fundada en 1827, es una taberna tradición taurina, y conserva el ambiente del siglo XIX. Está especializada en rabo de toro.

J. L. Gamallo. Madrid is not only a top tourist destination with museums and monuments of great historical and artistic importance, but also has a great attraction for shoppers, whether in department stores, malls or stores. Very near the Hostal Horizonte extends the great commercial center of Madrid, whose main axes are Carretas street, Price, Carmen and Arenal. These streets are numerous shops in clothing, accessories or shoes that will delight men and women.

J. L. Gamallo. The sun, in whose shadow is produced tourism "boom" of the '60s, is still today, almost more than ever, with our precious historic and artistic heritage and the rich and varied gastranomía, our main supporter economic. Although Madrid has neither sun nor beaches, of course, it is in the center of the Iberian Peninsula, has other attractions make it a target Aque prime tourist. And no wonder, since in the cutting villa and there are a number of artistic treasures espléntidos are worth an offset.

J. L. Gamallo. Se titutlaba una vieja película española de 1968, El turismo es un gran invento, donde el inefable y cazurro Paco Martínez Soria, a la sazón alcalde de Valdemorillo del Moncayo, acompañado de su secretario, se marchan a la Costal del Sol, para estudiar in situ, que había que hacer para convertir a su pueblo en una potencia turística y evitar que los jóvenes tuvieran que emigrar del pueblo.

J. L. Gamallo. The Hostal Horizonte is located in historical and artistic heart of the capital of Spain, on a street that is already in the plane made ​​by Pedro de Teixeira in the seventeenth century, Atocha street, which from the Plaza Mayor was heading shrine of Our Lady of Atocha, the patron of the royal family, and who were offered at the time of his birth and infant princes. The present appearance of the street is the one that took over the nineteenth century, when it built the most houses.