Quaint vermouth bars with hand-painted signage, iron-balconied apartments painted in shades of sage green and dandelion yellow, world-class museums, charming parks, glass palaces\u2026 the reasons to visit Spain\u2019s capital are endless, but where do you go if you\u2019re looking to explore the unobvious?<\/p>\n
For those wanting to swerve the tourist hotspots, there are various neighbourhoods to explore that excite and astonish in equal measure. In these pockets of the city, daily Madrile\u00f1o life unfurls at a slower pace, while nostalgic bodegas and taverns hum with activity. These are the neighbourhoods to head to when craving a more traditional Spanish experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WHETHER IT\u2019S YOUR FIRST OR FIFTEENTH TIME IN THE CITY, THESE UNMISSABLE LOCALES WILL UNVEIL A DIFFERENT SIDE OF MADRID<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[980,802,259,513],"class_list":["post-14028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-local-scenes","tag-madrid","tag-neighbourhood-guides","tag-spain","destinations-madrid","destinations-spain","subcategories-alternative-city-breaks","subcategories-local-scenes","inspirations-city"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n