Madrid El Rastro and Lavapiés Self-Guided Audio Walk: Flea Market, Corrala and Tobacco Factory

About this experience

Madrid kept its messy, necessary work below the old town. Slaughter and tanning gave the Rastro flea market its name and its main street, and at the bottom of the hill stood a royal tobacco factory where thousands of women rolled cigars by hand. Start in a square built on a demolished convent, then meet the soldier with a can of petrol at the head of the Rastro. Walk down the tanners' slope, past a Baroque church front saved from fire and a school church kept as a ruin with a library inside. See La Corrala's open wooden galleries, the Plaza de Lavapiés, and a brick pawnshop palace that is now a cultural center. Finish at the tobacco factory where 3,500 women rose in 1830, and the queen's garden beside it. Ten stops, about 2.2 km and 75 minutes, downhill nearly all the way, at your own pace, in English. Works any day; the market trades on Sunday and holiday mornings.

What's included

Down Madrid's southern slope from Tirso de Molina through the Rastro flea market, a burned church kept as a ruin and a galleried corrala to the Plaza de Lavapiés, the old tobacco factory and a queen's garden.

Good to know

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