Hotel Puerta de Toledo

May has always been a busy month packed with activities in Madrid. Basically, because the month includes the city’s two major fiestas: the regional one on 2 May and the city’s patron saint, San Isidro (the patron of farmers and agricultural workers), on 15 May.

Madrid Book Fair from 2 to 18 October 2020

We saw some spontaneous – and pretty inappropriate – celebrations in Malasaña on 2 May that attracted the attention of TV channels and the police given the situation. Read full article

Categories: Madrid Eventos

It will take a while for things to go back to normal in Madrid. So much so that people have started referring to the future as the “new normal”, as if implying like will never go back to being the way it was. And it certainly seems that is the way things are going to be for some time, Read full article

Categories: Madrid Ocio

The location of the Temple of Debod has recently been called into question. This Egyptian temple, in Madrid since 1972, sits quietly in Oeste Park and is the perfect setting for watching beautiful sunsets.

Although it has stood in the capital for the past 48 years, it was created back in the 2nd century BC. Read full article

Categories: Madrid Cultura

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Although the latest squalls have been slightly off-putting and have made many people pull out the gloves and scarves they didn’t think they’d need until next winter, temperatures are expected to rise and going out will soon be on everyone’s to-do list again.

Below is a list of outdoor plans for a fun, different Sunday:

1. Walk by the almond trees in bloom on Quinta de los Molinos. Read full article

Categories: Madrid Ocio

E.T está en Madrid. Sí, así, como suena. Está por el centro de la ciudad en algún sitio y hay que ir a buscarlo. En una suerte de yincana es una de las últimas ofertas de ocio que se está dando en la ciudad.

Hace tiempo que el concepto de Scape Room irrumpió con fuerza, en Madrid y en muchas ciudades de España. Read full article

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A new entertainment centre has opened in the capital, and it has drummed up high expectations. The Gran Teatro Bankia Príncipe Pío was preparing to raise its curtain for the first time in late February.

This theatre is in the old Estación del Norte (“North Station”), a unique 19th century construction designed by the engineers Biarez, Read full article

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Madrid kicks off the month of February with the third edition of Madrid Design Festival, an international event born in 2018 to position the Spanish capital as a referent in the world of design in the broadest sense, including everything from architecture to communications.

This festival was born from the changing times the city is living, Read full article

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