Plaza del Callao
From the Plaza de San Domingo, I walked along the street Preciados towards the Plaza de Callao. This is the most "shopping" part of Madrid. Due to the early time and the holiday-may 1 is also a holiday in Spain - Labor Day (Día del Trabajador), you could only meet street sweepers on the streets and once again marvel at the perfect cleanliness of the streets of Spanish cities.
![Madrid. The Preciados street (Calle de Preciados) Madrid. The Preciados street (Calle de Preciados)](https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6701/26384437.287/0_b74e9_687ce8b5_XL.jpg)
. On the left is the Edificio La Adriatica building, in the center is the main building of the El Corte Ingles Department store.
![Madrid. The Callao square (Plaza del Callao) Madrid. The Callao square (Plaza del Callao)](https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6717/26384437.287/0_b74ea_a453e554_XXXL.jpg)
A narrow and long building of the FNAC electronics and media products hypermarket.
![Madrid. The Callao square (Plaza del Callao) Madrid. The Callao square (Plaza del Callao)](https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/9060/26384437.287/0_b74f0_df056956_XXL.jpg)
Panorama of the square. In the center - the cinema "Callao".
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The Edificio Carrión building, with the eternal advertisement "Schweppes". Exactly the same view was depicted by one of the first photographs I saw of Madrid in the Great Soviet encyclopedia in the mid-seventies. Ads for the immortal drink were also present in that photo.
![Madrid. Karen Building (Edificio Carrión) Madrid. Karen Building (Edificio Carrión)](https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/9171/26384437.287/0_b74ef_dc99d0f7_XL.jpg)
On the other side of the Gran via, the architectural ensemble of Callao square completes the Palace of the Press (Palacio de La Prenca ).
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