Parque del Oeste
Sloped hillside park with an ancient Egyptian temple, civil-war bunkers, and a rose garden.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Parque del Oeste in Madrid layers three moments on the same hillside: a night in 1808 when French troops executed Madrid rebels here after their uprising against Napoleon, the concrete pillboxes dug into this ground during the Spanish Civil War siege of the capital, and an ancient Egyptian temple that ended up on this hill in the 1960s after Spain helped rescue it from a flooding river valley. Along the way it points you to the Goya painting that immortalized that first night. Look for the pillboxes near the park's north edge as you walk.
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