Today it was the Madrid fashion museum. We overshot it in the bus but we eventually found our way there. Unfortunately
it was unfashionably closed, but we managed to see a temporary exhibition there on
traditional Spanish costumes.
This is some of what we missed. It's ranked 8th best fashion museum in the world.
We then walked back to the Royal Palace and Armoury, a couple of kilometres, which is quite near our hotel. The line looked long
to get inside but it only took about 12 minutes. Though it was quite
hot waiting outside in the sun. We did see the mounted guards at the palace. No
photography was allowed in most of the internal rooms. The rooms were quite
spectacular, not unlike the Palace at Versailles.
On the walk home, we visited Temple Debod, a Second Century
BC Egyptian temple to Amun that the Egyptian government had gifted to Spain. Apparently it was
in recognition of the Spanish company that was involved in the construction of
the Aswan Dam and saving Abu Simbel. Three other countries were given temples
as gifts.
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