Paseo del Pintor Rosales

The avenue recalls Eduardo Rosales, born in Madrid in 1836, trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando and called to head the Spanish Academy in Rome. His name stayed tied to the great history canvases, the monumental painting that in the 19th century competed for medals at the national exhibitions. The full name Paseo del Pintor Rosales was fixed in 1941. The route follows the ridge that skirts the old hill of Príncipe Pío, its western pavement spilling out over the Parque del Oeste, the Casa de Campo and, in the distance, the Guadarrama mountains on the most Velázquez-like evenings. From here you go down to the Temple of Debod, and the cable car sets off, opened in 1969: cabins that cross the Manzanares through the air to the Casa de Campo. The west-facing terraces gave the avenue its reputation as a lookout over the western side of the city.