Chamartín is the northern district where the Santiago Bernabéu sits, so it suits football-mad kids first. It also has a natural science museum and a play café for the days that need something calmer. Good for a half day close to the Castellana.
Each fall Mercado de Prosperidad, a neighborhood food market, dresses up for Mexico's Day of the Dead with papel picado, an altar, mariachis and a photocall. Last year the stalls also ran a tapa-and-drink route, and the nights brought a DJ and a Ramones tribute band. Daytime is the gentler slot for kids; late evenings lean toward a grown-up party.
The city bus museum sits inside the working EMT depot in Fuencarral. More than 40 historic buses fill a 1950s industrial hall, from early models to double-deckers, the city's first articulated bus and a microbus, next to recent ones. It is a big, easy-to-read collection for kids who love vehicles.
A specialty coffee shop with a separate play zone for young children, behind a glass wall so parents keep them in sight from the tables. Play is free and child-led, with a wooden climbing house, slides and a ball pit, and a supervisor is on hand in the afternoons and at weekends. The café serves sourdough toast, homemade cakes and baby-friendly food. Weekdays are calmer; weekends fill with families.
The tour starts in the Real Madrid museum, an interactive, audiovisual walk past the club's trophies, including all 15 European Cups. From the third-tier stands, kids look down over the renovated stadium, then walk through the First Team dressing room and sit in the dugouts beside the pitch. Photo spots put them next to a favorite player or the Champions League trophy, and the route ends in the official store.
This is one of the oldest natural history museums in the world, split into a geology wing and a biology wing. The fossil hall holds Dippy, a Diplodocus cast that arrived in 1913, beside the Megatherium giant ground sloth and a replica of Lucy. The Biodiversity hall, signed in Spanish and English, has a 21-meter fin whale skeleton, an African elephant and extinct animals like the Tasmanian tiger.
Chamartín is the northern district where the Santiago Bernabéu sits, so it suits football-mad kids first. It also has a natural science museum and a play café for the days that need something calmer. Good for a half day close to the Castellana.
Each fall Mercado de Prosperidad, a neighborhood food market, dresses up for Mexico's Day of the Dead with papel picado, an altar, mariachis and a photocall. Last year the stalls also ran a tapa-and-drink route, and the nights brought a DJ and a Ramones tribute band. Daytime is the gentler slot for kids; late evenings lean toward a grown-up party.
The city bus museum sits inside the working EMT depot in Fuencarral. More than 40 historic buses fill a 1950s industrial hall, from early models to double-deckers, the city's first articulated bus and a microbus, next to recent ones. It is a big, easy-to-read collection for kids who love vehicles.
A specialty coffee shop with a separate play zone for young children, behind a glass wall so parents keep them in sight from the tables. Play is free and child-led, with a wooden climbing house, slides and a ball pit, and a supervisor is on hand in the afternoons and at weekends. The café serves sourdough toast, homemade cakes and baby-friendly food. Weekdays are calmer; weekends fill with families.
The tour starts in the Real Madrid museum, an interactive, audiovisual walk past the club's trophies, including all 15 European Cups. From the third-tier stands, kids look down over the renovated stadium, then walk through the First Team dressing room and sit in the dugouts beside the pitch. Photo spots put them next to a favorite player or the Champions League trophy, and the route ends in the official store.
This is one of the oldest natural history museums in the world, split into a geology wing and a biology wing. The fossil hall holds Dippy, a Diplodocus cast that arrived in 1913, beside the Megatherium giant ground sloth and a replica of Lucy. The Biodiversity hall, signed in Spanish and English, has a 21-meter fin whale skeleton, an African elephant and extinct animals like the Tasmanian tiger.