9 a.m. Escape to the countryside Start the morning at Café Slow, open since 2023 in Tra Que Vegetable Village, where alleys are named after herbs...
Barrio de Las Letras/Lavapiés These two central Madrid neighborhoods, bordering Calle Atocha, are easily visited together. Letras, opposite the Prado Museum, was home to Golden Age...
9:15 a.m. Find calm in a cathedral If you wake up early enough, visit the beautiful Cathedral Church of Christ in the Lagos Island neighborhood for...
10 a.m. Navigate a dizzying market When Mexico City was still the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, the district of La Merced, in the southeastern edge of...