Fuencarral, the high-street end. Gerda Arendt · CC0
Calle Fuencarral
The pedestrianised spine between Gran Vía and Tribunal, and the fastest way to see what the city is wearing.
Fuencarral runs from Gran Vía up to Tribunal, and the lower half is the high-street end — the chains, the sneaker shops, the queue outside whatever has just opened. It is not where the interesting buying happens, but it is where you find out what Madrid is actually wearing this month.
The useful move is to treat it as a corridor rather than a destination. Walk up it, then turn off into the Malasaña side streets, which is where the small independents and the secondhand shops are.
Before you go
- Best bit
- The side streets off it, not the street itself
- Metro
- Gran Vía at the bottom, Tribunal at the top
- Busiest
- Saturday afternoon. Genuinely shoulder to shoulder
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