In August I went to Madrid for five days - partially to take photographs and partially to practise my (elementary) Spanish. I visited the cities of Toledo and Segovia while I was there. Although the trip was excellent I escaped a pair of pickpockets, two muggers, and was attacked by a dog in Toledo and my trousers destroyed. I do hope that Spain is rabies free - stupidly I never sought medical attention.
Note - in order to get the images up on PBase rapidly, I did batch processing with Photoshop which accounts for their rather poor colours and high contrast.
In spite of my three unfortunate 'adventures' I would recommend Madrid to anyone. I certainly wish that we in the UK had their AVE rail system which is fast and comfortable.