Madrid artistic destination: the snowy Crystal Palace

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The Crystal Palace is part of a monumental natural, historical, artistic and cultural complex, located in the heart of Madrid: the Retiro Park.

Work of the architect Ricardo Velázquez Bosco - curiously, his surname coincides with the nickname of the great Flemish 'devil painter', Hieronimus Bosch - it was built in 1887, coinciding with the Philippine Islands Exhibition, highlighting the materials used, iron and glass, which give it, in addition to its charming neo-classical mansion shape, a deep and diaphanous luminosity.

The Palace, used today as an exhibition center and cultural activities, like the neighboring Casa de Velázquez, is located next to the shore of a small and suggestive lake, whose cypress trees are water offer an attractive spectacle, especially seen with the ocher colors of autumn, which give it a look of fantastic unreality.

On the other hand, there are various species of birds, especially webbed ones, that frequent its waters and its banks, as well as the abundant colony of abandoned turtles, which have found here, however, a quiet and ideal habitat to live.

Through the huge windows of the Palace, you can still see the exhibition of the Kosovar artist Petrit Halilaj, a work understood as a reflection of compromise and the diversity of forms, passions and understandings of something so beautiful but at the same time so subjective, such as it is Love in all the extension of its word.

Without being Madrid an area frequented by heavy snowfalls, this year the passage of the storm Filomena has, however, caused historical rainfall and rarely will we be able to appreciate this magnificent place with the added beauty of the snow, which gives it, without room for doubts, a poetically wintry look.

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Tu lugar favorito, @juancar347! Efectivamente, la nieve le da un toque especial. Me impresiona lo helado que se ve el lago y cómo las aves mantienen su canto. Prueba suficiente que solo aquel que logra adaptarse, es el único que sobrevive. Ya pasó Filomena y seguimos apostando al arte de ver la belleza en todas las cosas. Me dio frío, así que me merezco un abrazo. jajajaja

Te mereces uno y dos y tres, ja, ja, ja. En realidad, Filomena nos ha dado bien para el pelo, pero también nos ha dejado unas imágenes históricas para el recuerdo. Te aseguro, que me dio pánico ver a esos ánades nadando en el estanque, sobre todo, porque hacía tal frío que tenía las manos (me olvidé los guantes, como siempre) que no las sentía. Mejor dicho, sí que las sentía, con unos dolores como no te puedes imaginar y trabajo me costaba seleccionar el tipo de fotografía que quería y disparar el botón. Pero creo que el paseo mereció la pena. E incluso con dolores y principio de hipotermia, no dejo de maravillarme ante tanta belleza. Como se suele decir, adiós, Filomena, te echaré mucho de menos, pero tardar en volver. Otro abrazo más fuerte que los anteriores.

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Mi hermano.
Le robo un ratico a la madrugada para ver tu publicación llena de belleza y frio.
Para un Carupanero como yo es frío hasta esta Caracas 17 grados en algunas madrugadas, tengo tiempo que ni sudo.
Pero el dia hay un sol hermoso de verdad verdad.
Traté de mandarte dos imagenes desde mi ventana, no se

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Si pude hacerlo.
Saludos mi pana.

Buenos días, mi pana, alegra ver un poco de sol, que tan amablemente me mandas con esta preciosa vista desde tu apartamento. Aquí en Madrid, estamos teniendo un invierno realmente frío y catastrófico, pues la borrasca Filomena nos ha dejado tiritando y como se suele decir, 'con el culo al aire', y ahora que se ha marchado, dejándonos como presente toneladas y toneladas de hielo, pues estamos soportando unas temperaturas realmente históricas, de -10 o -12 grados por las noches. Claro, que las madrugadas no son como ésta que me enseñas en tu fotografía. Pero como se suele, mi querido amigo, con vinitos y sopitas se sigue haciendo el camino. Un fuerte abrazo

Esa foto es en la mañana mi pana.
Temgo tiempo sin tomarme una copita, pero cuado llegué el momento habrá una en su nombre

Ja, ja, ja...¡salud, mi pana!

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Como que pude, no?