Saturday, May 3, 2008

May 2 in Madrid

Ok these pictures are from friday morning. There was a reenactment of the spanish revolution from the french. I'm not sure who the but silver guy is but I think he is Napoleon's brother.
This is a giant dancing lady wearing maja style clothes from the revolution era.
This is the live band that was playing for the dancers and the maja lady.
Here I am by an important government building...we were walking to the royal palace to see a giant puzzle.
This is right next to the palace and we just stopped to take a picture and get away from all the crowds for a minute.
This is the changing of the guards at the palace.
Here is the giant puzzle. It is a copy of one of Goya's paintings...Goya is a very famous spanish painter.
This is next to the palace and you can see the royal cathedral on the left.

In front of the palace there are a lot of random statues of people...I am sure if I was spanish I would know all these people but I'm not so I just picked on and took a picture by it. :)

2 comments:

Melissa said...

That puzzle is way cool! :)

Mari said...

They have some really neat things there - I love the puzzle!