{"id":16906,"date":"2024-04-17T10:01:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T08:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mayerlinghotel.com\/descubre-la-puerta-del-sol-3\/"},"modified":"2024-04-17T10:09:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T08:09:39","slug":"descubre-la-puerta-del-sol-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mayerlinghotel.com\/en\/descubre-la-puerta-del-sol-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Strolling along the Gran V\u00eda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Founded between 1910 and 1929, <strong>Gran V\u00eda is Madrid&#8217;s most famous boulevard<\/strong>. It connects the Salamanca and Arg\u00fcelles districts and is home to shops, restaurants and some of the capital&#8217;s most iconic buildings.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A bit of history<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gran V\u00eda is the best known street in Madrid<\/strong>. Historically it has been given many other names, such as Avenida de Rusia or Avenida del Quince y Medio. The most significant was <strong>Avenida de Jos\u00e9 Antonio<\/strong>, in homage to Jos\u00e9 Antonio Primo de Rivera for his victory in the Civil War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The history of Madrid&#8217;s Gran V\u00eda took a long time to get underway. The first sketches date from 1862, when part of Madrid&#8217;s historic centre was being renovated, but the final design did not arrive until 1899, when the architects Jos\u00e9 L\u00f3pez Salaberry and Francisco Octavio Palacios presented the project. The<strong> construction of the Gran V\u00eda lasted several decades<\/strong>, with <strong>work finally starting in 1910 and finishing in 1929<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Gran V\u00eda was one of the most important works in Spain, as <strong>more than 300 houses had to be demolished and almost 50 streets were affected<\/strong>. Thanks to the Gran V\u00eda, better communication was achieved between the centre of Madrid (Calle Alcal\u00e1) and the northwest of the city (Plaza de Espa\u00f1a).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What to see in Gran V\u00eda<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Nowadays, there are basically three types of establishments on Gran V\u00eda: <strong>restaurants, fashion shops and cinemas<\/strong>. Although nowadays you won&#8217;t find as many cinemas as in the past, in its heyday, Gran V\u00eda was nicknamed <strong>the Broadway of Madrid<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gran V\u00eda is one of the nerve centres of Madrid and <strong>you can find atmosphere here at any time<\/strong> of the day, all year round. Some of the most famous buildings on this mythical Madrid street are <strong>the Metr\u00f3polis Building and the Carri\u00f3n Building<\/strong>, crowned by the famous Schweppes sign that presides over the Plaza del Callao.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founded between 1910 and 1929, Gran V\u00eda is Madrid&#8217;s most famous boulevard. It connects the Salamanca and Arg\u00fcelles districts and is home to shops, restaurants and some of the capital&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blog-hotel-mayerling-madrid-en"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayerlinghotel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayerlinghotel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayerlinghotel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayerlinghotel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayerlinghotel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayerlinghotel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16908,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayerlinghotel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16906\/revisions\/16908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayerlinghotel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayerlinghotel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayerlinghotel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayerlinghotel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}