Madrid did not count on railway station until the inauguration of Atocha in 1851 by the company Madrid Saragossa Alicante of railroads, although its original name was Station of Noon. Little it is in the present station of Atocha original elements of the station since years after its beginning great part of her was destroyed because of a fire. In 1888 she returned renewed with a design of Alberto Martin Elissage Palace in collaboration with Gustave Eiffel, that gave to the station a greater vault him realised in forged iron. In 1985 the station of Atocha receives a great reform with a view to the future that for of Atocha a different station. It was chosen to conserve the vault and to use it like ceiling to turn the great near space into a great crossing site, strolls and rest acclimated with a tropical garden, restaurants and stores, being transferred the railway terminal meters, being useful in equipping it with means necessary to be able to welcome in new line of high speed (BIRD) that from 1992 leave from Atocha. In addition to visit Atocha is simple like tourist in Madrid, since the station is placed right in the center of the Spanish capital, which allows to have all type of services close. At the time of acceding to a Web of booking hotels with the aim of realising a reserve in of the hundreds of lodgings of Madrid, it can be to have an account a zone like Atocha that besides the great station tells on the beginnings of the Stroll of the Prado and the Park of the good retirement very to few meters. Sometimes like visitors us details of great beauty can be escaped if we are not open to which any place can hide-and-seek and is that what often a simple place is considered to take a train can turn out one from the best places to give an pleasant stroll with history airs.