Madrid Puerta de Atocha - Almudena Grandes

This guide to Madrid's Atocha station covers the memorial to the morning of March 11, 2004, when bombs struck four commuter trains converging here, and the glass tower of handwritten condolences that stood over the platform for sixteen years before being dismantled to make way for a new metro line. It follows what replaced that tower after the twentieth anniversary, and then turns to the tropical garden growing under the same iron-and-glass roof, planted where trains once idled. Notice how the mood shifts as you walk from one part of the station to the other.