Madrid Walking Tours

• Review
• Wednesday, August 27, 2008

I'm averse to contracting tour guides for anything, but when I looked at the number of innovative walking tours you can take in Madrid -- 2 years living here and I may just sign up for one!

They are cheap (not more than 4 Euros and cover the most important elements of the city within a few hours). Here are a few of the walking tour options you have:

Madrid Medieval Walk: This will take you around the historic part of the city, through the most important buildings city centre.

Walking tour planned according to history/monuments/plazas: Madrid Municipality provides a number of walking tours. Decide what you'd like to see and you'll find a guided walking tour that will take you there. You can find the same sort of tours at Ole Spain Tours.

Stephen Drake-Jones Historic Madrid Tours: He is an English ex-lecturer who has been living in Madrid for the last 30 years and now provides guided tours around the city.

Walking and Tapas Tour: If you want to make sure you are nibbling on local tapas while you are walking around the city, you might want to try a walking and tapas tour. Check out Adventurous Appetites and GoMadrid for details on such tours.

Madrid Walking Art Tour: Although I don't recommend this, should you need someone to walk you to and around Madrid's museums, you can check out tour company Euro Adventures which offers that.

Do a walking tour on your own! Should you want to wander on your own, but have a route, check out some Madrid walking routes mapped out by National Geographic and Frommer's. Just print them out and you'r ready to go!