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| Department stores |
| El Corte Inglés Preciados, 1-4 Tel: 91 556 23 00 Metro: Sol / Callao Zone : Sol Map: F10 | El Corte Inglés is a spanish institution, and since they bought "Galerías Preciados" in 1995, it's really the only complete department store in the country. In most shops they have also good supermarkets, and the gourmet club, normally in the gentleman floor (we don´t know why...) where you can find delicatessen. Hipercor is the big supermarket. Normally, multi-lingual staff. The biggest is the store in Nuevos Ministerios, specializad the building for children, The Sol Corte Inglés has several buidings from Callao to Sol, with differences things. There are also branches in Princesa, with a new big floor mainly for food, and it is open on Sundays, in the Salamanca area (Goya and Serrano), in the Vaguada and in suburbs you can find "Tiendas Corty", small shops that belong to the big company.
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| Fnac Preciados, 28 Tel: 91 595 61 43 Metro: Callao/Sol Zone : Sol Map: F8 | You can buy a ticket for a concert, a magazine while you have a coffee or a sanwich, a video-tape and its video-recorder. The lasttest models in electronic and computers. Books, music, and games. On the second floor there is a room where you can read the books (without buying them) while listening to a selection of music. Limited english collection. Its motiv is that if you find the same thing cheaper somewhere else, they refunded you the difference. Open: | |
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| Vips Gran Vía, 43 Tel: 91 559 66 21 Metro: Callao / Santo Domingo Zone: Gran Vía Map: E-7 | It is not a big store, but you can buy mainly food, drinks, magazines, books and music cd's untill 3.00 am. Sundays too. Also in: Albertto Aguilera, 56 Fuencarral 101 Orense, 16 and 79 Princesa, 5 Serrano, 41 Velázquez, 136 | |
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