Sports & Lifestyle

On nine times, Oakmont Country Club hosted the world’s golfing elite. With its vertiginous greens, narrow fairways and unforgiving topography, the course designed by Henry C. Fownes remains faithful to the vision of 1903.

The Mutua Madrid Open not only brings together the best rackets on the planet, but it does so in one of the most iconic venues in world tennis: the Caja Mágica. Since its move to this state-of-the-art facility in 2009, the Madrid tournament has consolidated its status as one of the most prestigious events on the circuit.

In Madrid, each street not only bears a name, but it also has a history, a nod to the past or a traditional soul. Some evoke battles, other saints. But there are a handful of them, almost hidden, that stop us with a smile and make us wonder: who baptised this street and why.