History in Madrid

Baltasar Bachero became a hero after he saved the lives of two children nearly run over by an out-of-control mule-drawn carriage.

Automatons that were once removed after one fell from the building.

The oldest building in Madrid.

Among the oldest structures in Madrid, these Moorish walls once guarded the medieval city of Mayrit.

The remains of the second-oldest zoo in Europe can be seen within these library gardens.

A rare set of strings by famed instrument maker Antonio Stradivarius is on display in the Royal Palace.