Activity central – with over 3 million people.
This guy crouching under a card table made me
jump out of my skin!
Madrid has a modern infrastructure, but has
preserved it’s historical heritage.
The magnificent old Post Office, with the Cibeles
(Roman goddess of fertility) fountain in the
 foreground.  Celebrations at the fountain for
 soccer wins were common, and causing damage
 to the fountain.  Now there is a big ceremony, and
only the team captain is allowed to approach
Cibeles in honor of the win.
One of the better street performers.  She was
 actually carving an exact replica of herself.
  Trippy.
Mike executing a backwards salute with the
 invisible man at Plaza Mayor.
One of the finest examples of tromp o’leil
(fool the eye) painting we’ve ever seen.
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