Retiro Park + Downtown + The Literary Quarter

“El Retiro is to Madrid what Central Park is to New York”

Go all over Retiro Park by segway with Segway Travel Madrid and let yourself be seduce by the most beautiful and popular park in the City.

A nice route in segway that all the family will enjoy. You’ll experience a unique and funny tour, full of culture.

Knowing the Retiro park on Segway, is the best way to enjoy the green areas of Madrid with more than 117 hectares and 15,000 trees along with their gardens. Its size and freshness make it the perfect place to visit on a Segway. The guide will take you on a 2-hour tour through the most beautiful landscapes of Madrid.

After training and safety information in our offices, the tour will Start.
Leaving from Calle Arrieta, we will pass through Plaza Mayor, where you can admire its traditional architecture. The tour will continue through the Barrio de las Letras/The Literary Quarter, where some of the most important literary figures of Spain lived. You will find the main museum in Madrid and one of the best art galleries in the world, the Prado Museum. Here, you will also see the Church of the Jerónimos.
The route will continue through the door of Felipe IV, where you will find the first French garden with its curiously sculpted trees. Going down its tree-lined avenues, you will go to the Fount of  Ángel Caído, one of the few statues in the world dedicated to the devil. You will also pass through a French-style Rose Garden, a romantic Glass Palace and the Velázquez´s Palace to see the jewel in the crown of Retiro Park, the lake and the monument to King Alfonso XII.
On the way back, the first monument after the Retiro Park is the Puerta de Alcalá. The tour will also pass through the Puerta del Sol on the way to the Royal Palace, the official residence of the Kings of Spain. Near the palace is the Almudena Cathedral, the newest Spanish cathedral and the Royal Theater.

In all of our Tour we include a small training inside our local to learn how to ride a segway. In every tour we provide you an officially approved helmet.