Gran Via

Between us and the hotel now was Gran Via, Madrid's high street, if you could describe Oxford Street as London's high street. But it's high in other ways with the right hand photo of the current Telefonica building was, when built in 1926 clearly with New York as inspiration, was Europe's first sky scraper and the tallest building across the continent. Madrid now barely has much that beats the building. They are some scattered around but not much. I get the feeling Madrid grows out not up.