A well-stocked bookshop, with some titles in English, plus magazines and a range of cheesy gay gifts. Downstairs you'll find an eye-popping range of porn...
C/Pelayo 30Occupying the building that once housed the ABC newspaper, this upmarket and well located shopping mall has eight floors. Four of them are dedicated to...
C/Serrano 61 & Paseo de la Castellana 34There are books and videos in English here, and members of staff are friendly and helpful. Browsing is encouraged and you can linger over some of the...
C/Hortaleza 64Madrid's best English-language bookshop sells a wide selection of literature, videos and DVDs, as well as materials for TEFLers. The branch below also has a...
C/Fernández de la Hoz 40Madrid's first giant mall, and still the largest in the city, La Vaguada has around 350 outlets. There's a branch of El Corte Inglés, and the upper floor is...
Avda Monforte de Lemos 36A welcome addition to one of the city's main transport hubs. Built into the shell of the old train station, the mall manages to pack in a deceptively large...
Paseo de la Florida s/nThis excellent travel and adventure bookshop sells a wide range of maps and books covering Spain and other countries. Desnivel's own publications include...
Plaza Matute 6An assured and attractively designed café-bookshop, equally at ease providing afternoon sandwiches, evening poetry readings or late-night cocktails. It's...
C/Apodaca 3The French giant offers a huge range of CDs, DVDs, videos and books plus computer hardware and software, all at competitive prices and under one roof. Among...
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J&J is at once a relaxing little café (at ground-floor level) and a well-stocked second-hand bookshop (in the basement). Activities held here include...
C/Espíritu Santo 47Madrid's most comprehensive bookshop by far, La Casa del Libro covers just about every subject imaginable in Spanish, but also has good sections of...
Gran Vía 29Temporarily rehoused in the Mercado de Toledo market, the Museo Municipal's bookshop offers a wealth of written materials, mainly in Spanish, covering all...
Mercado Puerta de Toledo, C\ Toledo 3, esq Plaza MayorMadrid's original and best shop for travel books and maps, the 'Green Shop' now occupies two premises on the same street. At No.23 you will find tourist and...
C/Maudes 23 & 38Madrid's best women's bookshop goes by the motto 'Los libros no muerden, tampoco el feminismo' - 'Books don't bite, neither does feminism'.
C/San Cristóbal 17This Old Curiosity Shop-type place, in an atmospheric passageway, sells everything from scruffy English paperbacks to antique editions.
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