Madrid - Plaza de la Cibeles

The Paseo del Prado begins at the Plaza de la Cibeles, which is dominated by the Palacio de Comunicaciones, the main post office in Madrid.

Going in a southerly direction we come to the Naval Ministry (1930), on the corner of the Calle de Montalbán, with the Museo Naval (Naval Museum), followed by the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, the museum of arts and crafts.

Today the Plaza de la Cibeles is one of the busiest traffic intersections in Madrid. It is the meeting-point of the Paseo del Prado, the Paseo de Recoletos and the Calle de Alcalá.