The Visitor Centre

To ensure you don’t miss anything during your visit to the Landscape of Light, we suggest you explore the Visitor Centre, located in CentroCentro, in the Palacio de Cibeles (Cibeles Palace). The Visitor Centre provides detailed information on the values that have earned this unique cultural landscape a place on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Panels, videos, and tablets will introduce you to the history, art, nature, science, the universal model, and everything that justifies the Outstanding Universal Value of the Landscape of Light.

You can also enjoy a model of the Landscape of Light combined with a video-map so that you can observe, through a splendid montage of light and colour, the evolution of the property over the centuries.

And don’t miss the exhibits of the guest institution! Every six months, one of the entities in the Landscape of Light lends us some items so that we can become better acquainted with their immense value.

And, of course, brochures and maps will be available in several languages.

Final visit to the Visitor Center photography on November 16, 2022

Top: Final visit to the Visitor Center on November 16, 2022.

The Madrid City Council GeoPortal

The Geoportal is the main channel through which Madrid City Council distributes spatial data. It aims to provide citizens with a tool to access, view and download municipal geographic information.

The Landscape of Light has its place in Geoportal, and you can use its viewer to observe and analyse the various geo-localised indicators that monitor the Landscape of Light.

The layers icon allows you to activate demographic, environmental, mobility, visitor, and other geographic data.

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The Landscape of Light Treasure Hunt

Do you like riddles, tracing clues and solving mysteries? If so, we challenge you to join the Landscape of Light treasure hunt. To win this game, you must decipher twenty cards related to places in the Landscape of Light. It won’t be easy, though. You’ll have to use your wits and skills to solve these challenges. Are you up for it?

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76 images from the Landscape of Light

Light, the presence of Nature surrounding unique buildings, sculptures, and spaces of great cultural, political, and social significance are the values underlying the Landscape of Light and the source of inspiration for the work of the 7 photographers who have taken the 76 images in this gallery.

Real Observatorio de Madrid

Mutis photography, Real Jardín Botánico, taken by Toya Legido.

Mutis, Real Jardín Botánico

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Fuente de Cibeles

Museo Nacional del Prado

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Roof terrace of the Círculo de Bellas Artes

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Museo Nacional del Prado

Real Jardín Botánico

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Real Observatorio de Madrid

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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

Monumento a Diego Velázquez

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Hotel Mandarin Oriental Ritz

Indian Shot photography, taken by Miguel Sánchez-Moñita.

Indian Shot, Real Jardín Botánico

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Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

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Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

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Real Observatorio de Madrid

Real Jardín Botánico

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Madrid sky photographed in October 2020

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Durero photography, Museo Nacional del Prado.

Durero, Museo Nacional del Prado

Magnolia tree photography, Paseo del Prado, taken by Lucía Moreno Diz.

Magnolia tree, Paseo del Prado

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Mutis, Real Jardín Botánico

Bolsa de Madrid

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Museo Nacional del Prado

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Museo Nacional del Prado

Monumento a Pérez Galdós

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Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

Paseo del Prado

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Annibale Carracci photography, Museo Nacional del Prado, taken by Amador Toril.

Annibale Carracci, Museo Nacional del Prado

Tree and mural Calle Valenzuela

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Estanque del Buen Retiro

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Monumento al rey Alfonso XII

Catalpa photography, El Retiro, taken by Toya Legido.

Catalpa, El Retiro

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Velázquez photography, Museo Nacional del Prado.

Velázquez, Museo Nacional del Prado

Banco de España

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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

Banco de España

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Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación

Real Jardín Botánico

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Real Jardín Botánico

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Symmetry Sculpture photography, Museo Nacional del Prado, taken by Fernando Madariaga.

Symmetry Sculpture, Museo Nacional del Prado

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Banco de España

Paseo de las Estatuas photography, El Retiro, taken by Vicente Tofiño.

Paseo de las Estatuas, El Retiro

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Congreso de los Diputados

Statue of Gundemaro photography, El Retiro, taken by Amador Toril.

Statue of Gundemaro, El Retiro

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Banco de España

Museo Nacional del Prado

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Estación Madrid Puerta de Atocha

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Monumento al rey Alfonso XII

Real Jardín Botánico

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Gathering at Atocha railway station

Palacio de Cibeles

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Real Observatorio de Madrid

Monumento al rey Alfonso XII

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CaixaForum Madrid

Museo Nacional del Prado

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CaixaForum Madrid

Monumento a los Caídos por España

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Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

Monumento a Francisco de Goya

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Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

Palacio de Cristal

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Monumento a Jacinto Benavente

El Retiro

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Monumento al rey Alfonso XII

Fuente de Neptuno

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Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación

Real Jardín Botánico

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Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

Fuente del Ángel Caído

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Real Observatorio de Madrid

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Círculo de Bellas Artes

Escultura Arquitectura, Museo Nacional del Prado photography, taken by Fernando Madariaga.

Architecture Sculpture, Museo Nacional del Prado

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Retiro

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Calder photography, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, taken by Vicente Tofiño.

Calder, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

Niños con jarrón de Cibeles

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Videos from the Landscape of Light

World Heritage nomination video of Landscape of Light

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Promotional video of the Landscape of Light

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Sometimes we don’t value what we have until we lose it

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A bird’s eye view of the Light Landscape

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World Heritage nomination video of Landscape of Light
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Promotional video of the Landscape of Light
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Landscape of Light. We are already a world heritage site
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A bird’s eye view of the Light Landscape

Press kit

Download the Landscape of Light press material (press releases, a selection of high-resolution images, videos and more information):

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The Visitor Centre

The Madrid City Council GeoPortal

The Landscape of Light Treasure Hunt

76 images from the Landscape of Light

Videos from the Landscape of Light

Press kit