Puerta del Sol

This guide to Puerta del Sol in Madrid opens on the morning of May 2, 1808, when a crowd gathered here to block the carriages carrying Spain's royal family out of the capital, and French marshal Joachim Murat answered with cannon fire and cavalry. You'll hear how the confrontation spread across the city within hours, and what the painter Francisco Goya later made of that day. Along the way it points out the bronze bear leaning into a strawberry tree and the clock that still rings twelve strokes each New Year's Eve.