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Home > Beatles diary > Travel > Travel: Nice to Madrid

Travel: Nice to Madrid

3.45pm, Thursday 1 July 1965 (46 years ago)

The day after their concert at the Palais des Expositions in Nice, France, The Beatles flew to Madrid in Spain.

The flight departed at 3.45pm. Upon their arrival The Beatles visited the Jerez de la Frontera vineyard, and Brian Epstein watched a bullfight at the Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas, where the group performed the next day.

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