Because you're a sentimental and never miss an important date, because you excite during the sunset and watching a full moon, and above all, because you're extremely attentive, we have prepared for you some suggestions for Valentine's Day: short trips, where your partner and you'll be able to enjoy the charms of our Community, living near some of the most famous relationships in real or literary history.

A royal love

The kings Alfonso XIII and Victoria Eugenia spent many afternoons in the halls of that today is the San Lorenzo del Escorial NH Victoria Palace, and more than a century it was a holiday mansion.

One step of the monastery, the building combines cutting edge style with details that keep the spirit of the twentieth century, mixed with small zen gardens or bathrooms in marble and corian. From here you can watch the Sierra de Guadarrama or Valmayor reservoir, while in the central living room someone is playing a piece by Strauss.

Do you want to live a royal love?

Between the walls of a former convent

Doña Inés, imprisoned since birth in the Convent of the Virgin, read from there the letter from Don Juan, suffering the pains of a proven history.

For this Valentine we offer church’s renovated rooms to lay your love niche and throb with the same burning of the two protagonists of the theatrical work.

Chinchón Parador sits on the Convent of the Augustinian friars, a building that dates from the seventeenth century. Baroque style, with Renaissance influences and an interior articulated around a central cloister, has rooms with large windows, domes and surrounded by classic and Castilian furniture, and a garden that is a real open air museum.

Do not forget to try the El Bodegón restaurant’s Taba stew based on a recipe from the eighteenth century and the El Convento restaurant’s menu "El Huerto de La Vega", a journey through the history of Chinchón cuisine.

The two restaurants are located in the Parador, if you like stop at a charming place after a walk around the Plaza Mayor or a donkey ride through the streets of the town, Mesón de la Virreina, La columna, La Cerca and Mesón Cuevas del Vino are some of the most successful to enjoy this special day with your partner.

The Alcalá de Henares Parador was the Dominican Convent of St. Thomas Aquinas four centuries ago. In its restaurant you can get an idea of how it was "The Food Complutense", when students from the time of Cisneros used to eat steak with cheese and raisins, lamb and vegetable pot or rice with milk and cinnamon.

A massage of waves foam or a salt scrub in the spa is the best way to complete a busy day in the footsteps of Miguel de Cervantes, imagining which places had inspired love story between Don Quixote and Dulcinea or why not, between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza ...

The Sheraton Santa Maria de El Paluar hotel is a XV century monastery surrounded by gardens and situated in the Valle de Lozoya, in the municipality of Rascafría. In his restaurant, Dom Lope, you can eat the delicious meat of Guadarrama.

Just a few feet away you can visit another part of the monastery where Benedictine monks still live. One of them will tell you the story of the building, while he shows the various parts of the monastery (church, high altar, chapels, cloisters, refectory, etc...). It is an architectural jewel mixture of Gothic, Baroque, Renaissance and flamenco styles.

To continue walking among nature, history and culture, we encourage you going to Patones. And to delight the palate in a cosy place, we suggest you take a table at some of these restaurants: Las Eras, El Rey de Patones o La Cabaña El Poleo, among essential dishes: grapes crumbs, butter beans, beans or oxtail.

Are you romantic and also sportsman? Not far from here there is Valdesquí, a station where you can ski or snowboard; from its large terrace you can contemplate the Peñalara peak, the highest point of the Community of Madrid.

A turbulent love

Another proposal of outdoor activity comes from Aranbike, a bicycle rental system promoted by the city of Aranjuez.

After visiting the gardens and palaces, you could throw yourself into the skin of Manolete and Lupe Sino, an actress with the bullfighter had a tumultuous love story. How? Entering to one of the most beautiful and ancient bullfighting arenas: the Plaza de Toros de Aranjuez. It is a Historic-Artistic Monument and one of the few left standing in the eighteenth century. Its austere exterior hides a rich treatment of the interior which houses a fascinating museum of bullfighting.

For lunch we offer a centenary restaurant overlooking the Tajo River: Rana Verde and to stay all the comforts of modern Barceló hotel. These include the health and beauty center, one of the best equipped of the Community.

Aranjuez has also another good option to relax the mind and body. It is Ingravity Wellness&Spa, Thai bath pool, treatment with chocolate, cherry, wine, olive and strawberry are just some of the pampering that you can give for the weekend of Valentine's Day.

Passionate love versus courtly love

The story between Picasso and Theodora Markovitch, who decided to change his name and became known as Dora Maar, was a story of creation and destruction, love and promiscuity.

Dora was the only one who could be near him when he worked in the famous "Guernica", the artist from Malaga even commissioned a photographic documentation of the process of creating the monumental work.

That passionate love to women and life crosses all works of the painter, as well as you can see in the Picasso Museum of Buitrago de Lozoya. At about 46 miles away and your partner and you could pretend to be Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde or Geneva and King Arthur. Where? Go to the Manzanares el Real Castle.

And to continue living the frugal charm you could book at Los Canchos hotel in Buitrago de Lozoya, relax in the reading room and sit by the fireplace. Maybe it is true that having the love you do not need anything else!