Don´t try to find any similarities with Piazza di Spagna in Rome. This one is a different plaza. It´s flanked to the east by Edificio de España (1953; 117m -384 ft) and to the north by Torre de Madrid (Madrid Tower; 142m -466 ft), two big and tall buildings but not very charming.
In the centre of the square you can find one of the favourite tourist spots: the statue of Cervantes (1927); at his feet, his two most inmortal characters: don Quixote and Sancho. Getting taken a picture there is mandatory!
And now some History: It was one of the locations where the French firing squads execute the madrileño rebels after the May the 2nd uprising in 1808. Francisco de Goya painted that scene in one of his masterpieces.
You can easily get there since Metro lines #3 and 10 have stops right in the plaza.
Foto I Wikipedia
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