Madrid Río Self-Guided Audio Walk: Puente de Segovia, Puente de Toledo and Perrault's Steel Bridge

About this experience

For decades Madrid had its back to its river. The Manzanares was walled in granite and held in ponds, and then a ring road ran along both banks. In 2003 the city decided to put the motorway into tunnels and build a park on top. Start at Pedro de Ribera's Baroque riverside chapel and cross the Puente de Segovia, begun in 1574, with the palace and the Almudena's dome above it. Follow the river past a concrete laboratory where engineers modeled rivers, to the weirs whose opening in 2016 let the river build its own islands. Walk a promenade of pines on the roof of the motorway, look across to the stadium site that became a park in 2024, see the saints on Ribera's Puente de Toledo, and climb through Perrault's steel bridge to a summer beach and a fountain that has moved across Madrid. Ten stops, about 3.4 km and 75 minutes, flat and almost step-free, at your own pace, in English.

What's included

A flat riverside walk from Ribera's chapel across the 16th-century Puente de Segovia, down a pine promenade on the roof of the M-30 tunnels, past the Puente de Toledo and through Perrault's steel

Good to know

Operated by Roamer and sold by AGORA. Your voucher and booking reference arrive by email straight after payment.