Parque del Retiro

An easy stop on the metro, Retiro was a great place for us to walk around. We found the gravel paths always busy with other park visitors as well as street performers and artists. There are many cafes where you can find a meal or a treat and we were able to find toilets easily. Enjoy watching the paddlers row their boats about or join the fun for a small price of €6 for an hour. A playground also satisfied the 4-8 age range.

Fantastic park, especially on a sunny day in February. Visited at the weekend when there was plenty of entertainment going on, including boating on the lake. Amazing buildings and several cafes serving snacks and drinks. What's not to like!

I usually don't go to the park but this one was a real surprise. After visiting The Prado Museum my friend suggested going to the park since I was tired I said okay I can have a drink. But to my surprise this park is not only green and full of trees but also has a lot of entertainment activities going on. Near the pond or the lake you could see people dancing and playing music while the weather was so nice I could not believe that it was February. I totally recommend you to have a break in the park while you're doing the sightseeing

In the afternoon took the metro to Retiro Park. This is a popular hangout place for the locals and it showed. We walked around the park visiting the lake (lot of people boating there) and the Crystal Palace (Palacio de Cristal del Retiro). You could sit by the Crystal Palace and just watch people and let the day go by.

Just outside of the Retiro Park lies Alcala Gate (Puerta de Alcalá), very majestic

We visited the Retiro Park on Epiphany holiday after visiting Prado Museum.
Many people on a sunny day, street performers, boats on a pond, fish feeding, etc.
Nice park overall to kill time.

We spent a very pleasant few hours walking in the park along with hundreds of others on Sunday. Madrid residents must use this time to enjoy some leisure time and dress smartly to impress.
The Monument to King Alfonso 12 is a must see and if the weather is better in the summer sailing on the lake is a must

Retiro Park is a must visit even in winter. When we visited dozens of people were “messing about in boats” on the pond in front of Alfonzo statue in 5 degree temperatures! There are many interesting areas to discover as you walk the many paths. The Cristal Palacio we thought was a bit underwhelming but it’s no mean feat to shift such a structure when it was originally designed for an exhibition in Philippines! Beautiful tile work and mosaics can be seen on many buildings within the park. It’d be stunning in Spring and Autumn

Beautiful park with a huge lake where you can hire boats for a cheap fee. It cost us €6 for 45 for the 3 of us to hire a rowing boat. It was good fun making our way around the lake and the kids loved it.
The park is huge, plenty of places to take a rest and catch some sun or shade!

In nice weather, this is the best place to go. Lively and relaxing. There was a comfortable amount of crowd in January, and a band played really good music. You can also rent a boat, a take very nice pictures.

This is a large park just in the centre of Madrid, close to the Prado Museum. Even in winter, in one of the many sunny morning, is a perfect place to walk, have a coffee in a terrace, rollerblade, walk your dog or rent a boat and have a nice time in the park's pond looking at a magnificent semicircular colonnade. There are lots of different trees, a rose-garden, and countless statues, fountains and commemorative monuments which have converted the park into an open-air sculpture museum. Among the curiosities, you can look at the Sculpure of the Fallen Angel, which represents Lucifer falling from heaven and it is claimed as the only known public monument of Satan, and the Crystal Palace, a glass pavilion and maybe the gardens' most extraordinary building.