Los vermús más frescos de Madrid
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Aranjuez’s old town and its monuments, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, is just 30 miles from Madrid and, since 1851, linked to the Spanish capital by a railway known as the Strawberry Train (El Tren de la Fresa), the second railway line that existed in Spain and a symbol of the arrival of industrialisation. 
The San Isidro Festival takes place on May 15th but the festivities carry on well beyond that date, with bullfights in Las Ventas and restaurants making the most of circumstances and serving what is perhaps the most typical Spanish dish that one could try: oxtail.
CaixaForum in Madrid is a museum of great interest. It all starts with the vertical garden on its façade and with its architecture, built in an old factory that used to be the former Mediodía Power Plant.
Felipe II was the first Spanish monarch to move to this location in the mountains outside Madrid for the summer. He stayed in the solemn yet sober monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, where he died in 1598, inaugurating a tradition that his successors followed without exception: that their mortal remains rested in peace in the room known as El Pudridero (the “rotter”). 
There are foreign expressions that are justified, and one of them is mignon, which in French means “cute”, “pretty”, “charming”. Mignon is much more than just appropriate decoration; it is love for details and putting your soul into something. In France, they know how to do it properly, which is why we start this short route around mignon places in the Institute Français, 
Abundant breakfasts, brunches that stun, lunchtime menus with substance, romantic dinners… what about afternoon snacks? This article will pay a humble tribute to the forgotten “meal” of the day, the afternoon snack. So go and have a bite to eat while you take a break from visiting the city, and do so in any of these charming little places. 
The artists that were sent to the Rejection Room were those that, funnily enough, achieved acceptance in art history. The more academic, purist and formalist ones were forgotten in favour of the audacious and more modern pictorial expressions of Cézanne, Monet or Pissarro.
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