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Puerta del Sol, Madrid (Spain) [~1890 - 2006 - ~2015] (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Unknown date (EDIT: according to u/tjm2000 (in reddit) it's from around 1890s): Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliográfico > PUERTA DEL SOL
2006: Puerta del Sol, Madrid, from our hotel room | Joe Calhoun | Flickr
2015: Plaza De La Puerta Del Sol In Madrid Spain Foto de stock - (Julian Elliott Photography) Getty Images. The 2015 date is a bit of a guess. The source does not have an explicit date, but looking at the HTML code of the page I see "dateSubmitted":"2015-11-21" so I asumed that was the year. But I'm not really sure.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Funny how in the first picture the building on the left felt the need to advertise they had an elevator

[–] omgitsaheadcrab 4 points 1 year ago

Good spot! Looks like the one in the middle did too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The building in the middle also advertises it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Good catch!

In 1890 it must have been a big deal.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Nice to see the cars only lasted a while, and now busses have replaced the trams.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Been here irl and it's really really pretty, there's a bunch of high quality (and high price) shops nearby and the whole place is very open with no cars and this really made my trip!