El Parque Retiro

This park is probably one of the biggest and most popular parks in Madrid. We saw a lot of people on their afternoon jogs or bike rides. We even saw a few people rollerblading.  There is also a lake where you can rent row boats. The water is really dirty and gross looking though. There are lots of paths to take and smaller parks within the park. While walking around we saw a few palacios that are exhibiting the artwork of Nacho Criado. The title of the exhibition is “Collaborating Agents.” It was a little different. One piece had over a hundred wine bottles placed one after the other and in the middle were two really old TVs.  Ben didn’t really like it. I thought it was all kind of funny. There was another one that had a huge glass cage and inside was a ton of broken glass. Around the outside on pieces of cardboard was the Spanish alphabet.

While walking around we also got to see some peacocks. I have never seen peacocks this close up before. They are beautiful! After the peacocks we walked around a bit more and then headed home for a relaxing evening at home. 

Monumento a S.M. el rey D. Alfonso XII

The peacocks!

The babies were so cute!

Art from our friend Nacho Criado. His art was on display in two different palacios in the park. The first, in Palacio Velázquez

And the second in Palacio Cristal.