Gran Vía Street in Madrid from Callao | Madrid Center | Walking tour 4k 

Hello! On today's walk we walk through one of the busiest and most famous streets in Madrid, La Gran Vía.
We continue the walk through the center of Madrid, starting at Plaza del Callao to walk part of Gran Vía to Alcalá Street.
Gran Vía was founded between 1910 and 1929, becoming the most famous boulevard in Madrid.
It begins on Alcalá Street and ends at the Plaza de España, having a length of 1.36 km. To carry it out, more than 300 houses were demolished, affecting almost 50 streets.
Its construction was an important milestone from a tourist, commercial and leisure point of view, housing numerous shops, hotels and cinemas.
Cinemas were very important in their beginnings, they were luxurious buildings more similar to palaces, decorated with neon lights and large posters. Some of them continue to operate, such as the Callao Cinema, the Capitol Gran Vía or the Palacio de la Prensa, while many others, such as the Imperial Cinema or the Avenida Cinema, have disappeared and have been used to house fashion stores.
Some of its most notable buildings are the Grassy, ​​Gran Peña, Telefónica, Carrión and the España building.
We will also find a mythological story. At the top of the Hyatt Centric Gran Vía Hotel, at number 31, we can see a golden statue of Diana the huntress, located in front of it we find a Phoenix, which carries Edimión on its back. The myth goes that Diana visited him every night after coming down from the moon, the romance reached the ears of Zeus, who, enraged, sent the bird to kidnap him and hide him from his daughter, but Diana did not give up her love and attacked the Phoenix Bird with their arrows, which are engraved on the ground in front of the number 32.
It has been the setting for some films such as The Day of the Beast (1995), The Crack (1981), The Girls of the Red Cross (1958), The City Is Not for Me (1966) or Open Your Eyes (1997).
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