Hi guys! I'm really glad if you keep reading my blog, I hope I can give you something new and some benefits maybe. So in this post, I wanna share you about Madrid. As you know, Madrid is the capital city of Spain, and this city is so Europe, you know, European style 😂. Well actually Madrid is my first city in Europe that I visited and I looooveee it! I was really amazed cause it wasn't like usual city in Asia. Based on googling, Madrid has about 3 million population, but there aren't many houses, so people live in apartment. Houses or settlement is located in the edge of city, and I thought only rich people can have a house there because the houses were quite big. There also many cars and motorcycles in Madrid and sometime there's a traffic jam. What I like the most about Madrid is it has many maple trees all are standing beside the high way 😍
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| This kinda maple trees are beside the high way |
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| Madrid's kinda traffic |
Like many cities, Madrid also has a pattern, when apartments surrounded the centre of city and the centre of city has many offices, stores, banks, and yeah you know that kinda bussiness things. Industrial area in Madrid is located in the edge of city too. So if you enter from outside Madrid, you'll see farm area, then industrial area, then settlement or apartments area, and the last is bussiness area in the centre of city. I visited one of the mall there called Plenilunio and I thought, the mall wasn't located in the centre of city, so the point is malls were located near apartments for people to buy their needs. Madrid has many many parks and almost every park has a playground. Those parks were also located near apartments and one more thing, there are many bus stations near apartments, so you know the public facilities for Madrid's citizens are complete. The park which is near apartments are different with the park in the centre of city. The parks in the centre of city are more beautiful, because usually they have a fountain or statue but they have no playground while the parks near apartments only have many trees, chairs, and a playground.
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| A park near appartment with a playground |
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| Industrial area |
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| One of the appartment |
If you have a plan to Madrid, I can't recommend you a hotel because I was with tour. You can find a perfect hotel with a perfect budget for you in an application or searching in Google. But for public transportation, Madrid has many buses from the centre of city till the edge. What I also don't know is how to have a card or something to pay the bus, maybe you can search it yourself, I'm sorry 😂. There's also Uber in Madrid, so if you're hard to find a bus station or you think bus isn't effective then you can use Uber. What I wanna warn you is Uber's price in Madrid is really expensive for me (because in Indonesia that has to be really cheaper). But the Uber is pretty luxury. The drivers have their own uniform, even I met a driver with a suit, wow!
I also wanna share you some places I visited, they were Centro Cultural Islámico de Madrid, Las Ventas, Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Royal Palace of Madrid, Plaza de San Miguel and Plenilunio Shopping Centre. But I think there are many many more places you can explore. I had a really limited time in Madrid so I just visited those places I told you. Centro Cultural Islámico de Madrid is a masjid or mosque, so I visited it when Friday so my dad prayed Jumuah there. One thing I interested was the speech, I thought the speech was only in Spanish language but actually the speech was also in Arabic language too, MasyaAllah. I saw muslim in Madrid were Arabic, African, and maybe from many Islam countries, so the speech was also in Arabic language. For muslim, there are some halal restaurants in Madrid, like an indian restaurant or others. There's also halal restaurant near Centro Cultural Islámico de Madrid.
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| Centro Cultural Islámico de Madrid 😍 |
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| Inside the masjid |
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| A place for wudhu with a frozen water ❄️ |
Next place is Las Ventas, Las Ventas is a bullring or a place for bull fight. I just took a picture in front of the building because that was huge! You can see the bull fight if there's a schedule. I didn't enter it cause there's no schedule and entering it costs a price. Las Ventas located in the centre of city and I believe there's a bus station near it. Next, Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. I'm sure you all know that place, the most popular stadium, Real Madrid's stadium. I also didn't enter it because I had no time and there's a price and schedule to enter it, just check on its website! There's a schedule to have a tour inside the stadium. My dad once entered it and he showed me some pictures with trophies or historical things, so there's like a museum inside. My dad also took a picture on the bleachers and he touched the grass of field! I entered a Real Madrid's merchandise store behind the main gate of stadium. You can find Real Madrid's official jerseys, hats, key chains, bracelets, shoes, Spain National Team Football's jerseys too, and many more! Just prepare your wallet! 😂
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| Us in front of Las Ventas main gate |
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| Us being Madridista in front of Bernabeu main gate |
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| Daddy with all time Real Madrid's jerseys |
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| Sketch of Bernabeu |
Mostly, I didn't enter every places in Madrid because I just had one day in Madrid. But I didn't enter Royal Palace of Madrid because it's a palace for royals, like its name lol. Well there's a square and many people hung out there and also I saw two guards riding a horse!! If you wanna enjoy and see how people there live maybe you can hang out there and if you wanna move and explore around palace just go ahead because there are many merchandise stores and a way that lead you to Plaza de San Miguel. Plaza de San Miguel is a market and there are many foods inside!! Well I didn't taste it because I don't know wheter it's halal or not, beside I thought it was expensive because it's a tourist destination. All the way from Royal Palace to Plaza de San Miguel, you can feel like you're in Europe because the stores are a building with European style 😍
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| Me in front of Royal Palace's main gate |
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| Me and bestie in the square near Palace and behind us there were guards riding horse! |
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| All the way from Palace to Plaza de San Miguel, feels like in Europe right? |
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| Me in front of Plaza De San Miguel ✌️ |
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| Mom inside Plaza de San Miguel |
Okay, last thing, summer in Madrid was like burning my face cause there's just few clouds so the sun directly burned my face and lips 😱. You also can explore more than me, there's a Grand Via, a street with many branded stores with European style building too, I just passed it and didn't walk around there, or there are another square like Plaza Mayor, Puerto Del Sol and many more. Well if you want another option of places then you can google it! That's all I can share about Madrid. All I know is I'm in love with Espana ❤️. Hope you'll be there soon! Aamiin
Ps: If you wanna more, check out my Instagram story @muthihasna
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| Greetings from my burnt face with cystal clear sky in Madrid ❤️ |
Hi guys! Gue seneng banget kalo kalian masih tep baca blog gue, gue harap gue bisa ngasih sesuatu yang baru atau mungkin manfaat. Jadi di postingan ini gue mau share tentang Madrid. Kalian tau Madrid itu ibukota Spanyol dan kota ini sangaat Eropa, ya tau lah, gaya Eropa maksudnya 😂. Sebenernya, Madrid itu kota pertama di Eropa yang gue kunjungin dan gue sukaaaak bangeet. Berdasarkan hasil googling, penduduk di Madrid sekitar 3 juta orang tapi ga banyak rumah di Madrid. Jadi penduduknya tinggal di apartemen. Lokasi perumahannya di pinggir kota dan gue kira cuma orang kaya yang bakal punya rumah disitu soalnya rumahnya mayan gede. Di Madrid juga banyak mobil sama motor dan kadang-kadang macet juga. Yang paling gue suka sama Madrid itu pohon mapel yang ada di banyak pinggir jalan 😍
Kayak kebanyakan kota, Madrid juga punya pola. Dimana apartemennya ngelilingin pusat kota Madrid yang isinya kantor, toko, bank dan ya tau lah bangunan buat bisnis. Area industri di Madrid lokasinya di pinggir kota. Jadi kalo kalian masuk ke Madrid dari luar kota, kalian bakal liat pertanian, trus area industri, trus area permukiman, baru ketemu area bisnis di tengah kota. Gue juga ngunjungin salah satu mall namanya Plenilunio dan kayaknya lokasinya ga di tengah kota. Jadi intinya kalo mall lokasinya deket apartemen biar penduduknya bisa beli kebutuhan mereka. Madrid juga punya banyak taman dan hampir semua taman disana ada playground nya atau tempat mainan anak. Taman-taman itu lokasinya di deket apartemen dan satu lagi, ada terminal bis di deket apartemen jadi fasilitas publik buat penduduk Madrid emang lengkap. Taman di tengah kota beda sama taman yang deket apartemen tadi. Taman di tengah atau pusat kota lebih bagus soalnya ada air mancur atau patung tapi ga ada playground, sedangkan yang di deket apartemen cuma ada pohon-pohon, kursi sama playground.
Kalo kalian punya rencana ke Madrid, gue ga bisa rekomendasi hotel karena gue sama tur. Tapi kalian bisa cari hotel sempurna yang sesuai budget kalian di aplikasi atau di Google. Buat transportasi publik di Madrid, ada banyak bis. Yang gue gatau itu kartu atau apalah itu yang buat bayar, gue gatau dapet darimana, mungkin kalian bisa cari sendiri, maap 😂. Di Madrid juga ada Uber, jadi kalo kalian ga nemu terminal bis atau ngerasa kalo naik bis ga efisien, kalian bisa pake Uber. Tapi yang mau gue warning itu harga Uber di Madrid yang mahaaal bangeeet (soalnya kalo di Indo itu harusnya lebih murah). Tapi emang Uber disana mayan mewah. Drivernya pake seragam, bahkan gue ketemu driver yang pake jas, wow!
Gue juga mau share tentang tempat yang gue kunjungin. Ada Centro Cultural Islámico de Madrid, Las Ventas, Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Royal Palace of Madrid, Plaza de San Miguel sama Plenilunio Shopping Centre. Sebenernya banyak banget tempat yang kalian bisa explore, gue ga punya banyak waktu kemaren jadi cuma bisa ke tempat tadi. Centro Cultural Islámico de Madrid itu masjid, jadi waktu itu gue kesana pas hari Jumat jadi daddy jumatan disana. Yang menarik adalah ceramah disana pake bahasa Spanyol sama Arab, gue kira cuma pake bahasa Spanyol. Gue liat muslim disana banyak yang orang Arab, Afrika atau negara islam lain jadi makanya ceramahnya juga pake bahasa Arab. Buat muslim, di Madrid juga banyak restoran halal, kayak restoran India atau restoran lain. Di deket Centro Cultural Islámico de Madrid juga ada restoran halal.
Tempat selanjutnya ada Las Ventas. Jadi Las Ventas ini tempat buat matador yang banteng nyeruduk itu. Gue cuma foto di depannya aja soalnya bagus! Kalian bisa masuk kalo ada jadwal pertandingannya. Gue ga masuk soalnya lagi ga ada jadwal dan buat masuk ada bayarannya. Las Ventas ada di pusat kota dan gue percaya kalo ada terminal bis deket situ. Selanjutnya ada Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. Ya kalian pasti tau tempat ini, stadion terpopuler, stadion kandangnya Real Madrid. Gue ga masuk kesana soalnya ga ada waktu selain itu juga masuknya bayar dan ada jadwalnya, cek aja websitenya! Jadi ada jadwal buat tur ke dalem stadion itu. Daddy pernah masuk dulu dan gue ditunjukin foto-foto piala, benda bersejarah, jadi kek ada museum di dalemnya. Daddy juga foto di bangku penonton dan nyentuh rumputnya lapangan! Gue masuknya ke toko oleh-oleh nya Real Madrid di belakang gerbang utama stadion. Di dalemnya ada jersey Real Madrid yang asli, topi, gantungan kunci, gelang, jersey tim nasional Spanyol dan banyak lagi. Tinggal nyiapin dompet aja! 😂
Banyakan si gue ga masuk ke tempat-tempatnya. Tapi gue ga masuk ke Royal Palace of Madrid karna itu istananya bangsawan, kek namanya lol. Banyak orang yang nongkrong disana dan gue juga liat kek tentara gitu naik kuda!! Jadi kalo kalian mau nongkrong aja dan ngeliatin gimana orang sana hidup, ya tinggal nongkrong aja disitu. Kalo mau jalan dan explore sekitar istananya ya sok karena disitu banyak toko oleh-oleh dan jalan yang ngarah ke Plaza de San Miguel. Plaza de San Miguel tu kek pasar dan banyak yang jualan makanan di dalemnya. Gue ga nyoba makanannya karna gue gatau halal apa enggak, selain itu juga keknya makanannya mahal soalnya itu destinasi turis kan. Sepanjang jalan dari Royal Palace ke Plaza de San Miguel, kalian bakal ngerasa kayak di Eropa soalnya gedung-gedungnya bergaya Eropa.
Okay, satu hal terakhir. Summer di Madrid itu ngebakar muka dan bibir 😱. Soalnya disana kalo summer awannya dikit jadi matahari langsung ngebakar muka. Sebenernya ada banyak banget tempat yang bisa kalian explore selain yang tadi gue share. Ada Grand Via, jalan yang banyak toko branded disana dengan bangunan bergaya Eropa juga, atau ada alun-alun lagi kayak Plaza Mayor, Puerto Del Sol, atau banyak tempat lain. Kalo kalian mau opsi tempat lain, bisa cari sendiri. Yang gue tau gue cinta sama Espana ❤️. Semoga kalian bisa kesana secepatnya! aamiin
NB: buat lebihnya bisa liat story Instagram @muthihasna
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