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Did you know that the surroundings of Leganés and Fuenlabrada are full of biodiversity, agricultural cereal fields, streams and cattle trails? We propose up to four routes for you to discover this environment, a place for walking, leisure and recreation.
It is still summer and, in case you have run out of ideas to enjoy these last days of the season, we remind you up to four plans that end their activity in the upcoming days.
Live music is back! This summer the Coca-Cola Music Experience 2021 Festival will bring back live music on September 4 at the IFEMA venue in Madrid. The return of one of the most anticipated festivals, the #CCME.
The Madrid Book Fair kicks off at its usual location in the Retiro Park. This is the second consecutive year that the fair is held in early autumn instead of its traditional summer dates, this year celebrating its 80th anniversary, from September 10 to 26. One of the region's most anticipated major cultural events.
It goes without saying that summer in Madrid is boiling hot. Air conditioning, fans or a cold bottle of water are our greatest allies during this time of the year, but how did people fight the heat in Madrid a few years ago?
Villas de Madrid is an initiative that aims to promote and publicize the cultural and heritage wealth of eleven charming towns and great tourist attractions of the region.
On September 10, 11 and 12 the I Zarzuela Festival of Lozoyuela-Navas-Sieteiglesias will take place, a commitment to the promotion of rural culture that will fill the most unique and touristic enclaves of this municipality of the Sierra Norte de Madrid with musical galas of the most traditional genre of the Spanish lyrical tradition, the zarzuela.
If you want to spend a day full of fun, today we recommend you the perfect plan. Visit Parque Europa in Torrejón de Ardoz and enjoy a day full of adventures. The wide variety of activities offered makes this park, more than 233,000 square meters big and with 190,000 square meters of green areas, an ideal place to spend a day with the family.
Surely you have visited the Crystal Palace located in El Retiro Park. If you liked it, this is your lucky day, because the other Crystal Palace of Madrid, the Arganzuela, reopens its doors so you can be surprised with one of the great exponents of the Iron Architecture of Madrid in the nineteenth century.
This September, contemporary art returns with "Arte Vivo en las Villas", an initiative of the Community of Madrid that aims to fill the eleven Villas of Madrid with activities, exhibitions and artistic performances.
September is coming and during these last days of summer numerous fairs, markets and flea markets are hosted throughout the Community of Madrid. If you want to finalize your summer shopping, here are three events not to be missed:
This September, the fashion shows are back with a new edition of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid, the great Spanish fashion show that is held twice a year, in spring and autumn, in Hall 14.1. of the IFEMA fairgrounds. For four days, from September 16 to 19, Madrid is the fashion capital.
Next September 14, the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza presents a new temporary exhibition, a retrospective of the life of René Magritte, the famous Belgian painter, one of the greatest exponents of surrealism and 20th century painting.
This fall the city of Madrid revives its most glorious literary past. The Casa Museo Lope de Vega has designed a dramatized route through the Barrio de las Letras set in the characters of the Spanish Golden Age.
This month a new edition of the Traditional Music Festival of Aranjuez returns, an event that will fill with music the most emblematic places of the Royal Site and Villa.
On the evening of September 18, Madrid town of Alcalá de Henares dresses up to celebrate the Heritage Night 2021, an event organized by the group of Heritage Cities that aims to promote and fill with history and art the cities declared World Heritage by UNESCO in our country
Trap360&Urban Fest, a festival full of music and visual arts that want to celebrate and promote the new urban scene, the set of styles and new urban trends that have emerged in recent years.
The 7th edition of Open House Madrid festival kicks off on September 24, the most important event of Madrid's architecture that can be enjoyed until September 26. Under the slogan 'I don't even know where I live' get ready for a few days in which exclusive guided tours will be offered to more than a hundred buildings and architecture studios in the city of Madrid, plus many other surprises.
A new edition of the Hotel Tapa Tour is back for the sixth consecutive year. The informal haute cuisine festival in which, this year, 8 gastronomic routes have been organized to taste during 10 days 40 tapas of haute cuisine in twenty of the most exclusive hotels in Madrid.
Trap and new urban music culture lovers are in luck. Centro de Cultura Contemporánea CondeDuque in Madrid organizes next September 25 and 26 the Blam!!! festival, a date with emerging musical genres by female artists.
Few kilometers away from the capital, in the municipality of Rivas-Vaciamadrid, you can find El Campillo lagoon, a natural area rich in biodiversity that allows you to enjoy a real picnic with friends or children, perfect for a walk, a quiet hiking or biking route.
On September 26th Madrid will become a great running circuit. For the first time in its history, the EDP Rock 'n' Roll Madrid Marathon & 1/2 will be held in autumn, a celebration of sport and leisure with popular races and music in the streets of the city.
If you like historic architecture, colorful and palatial interiors and concerts in luxurious settings, you can't miss "¡Bienvenidos a palacio!", the event that will take you this fall on a guided tour of up to 23 palaces in the Madrid region until December.
If you hear "Madrid", the words tranquility or calm are probably not the first words that come to your mind. However, if you are looking to disconnect, the Community of Madrid is home to some places where you will hardly find any hustle and bustle. Do you dare to discover them?
Zip lines, archery, multi-adventure circuits, chill out areas, camps... You can find all these in the largest multi-adventure park in nature in Spain. With more than 380,000 square meters, Naturocio Park is waiting for you in Guadarrama, where you will live an unforgettable experience: outdoor fun in the middle of nature, every day during this summer!
Prehistoric tribes arrive this summer at Cavernarium Madrid. If you want to spend a day enjoying a troglodyte adventure, this is your chance. This is a unique activity in Spain located in the multi-adventure park "Ocius Park", in Colmenar Viejo (Madrid). It is a perfect occasion to celebrate children's birthdays, family reunions or to spend an unforgettable day with your friends.
In Sala Recoletos, in the Fundación Mapfre in Madrid you can still visit "Espacio Miró", a collection of the genius of contemporary art Joan Miró. It is a colorful display of 65 of his works from the last decades showing different periods of the Catalan artist.
The town of Alcalá de Henares is dressing up for festivals this August to host a new edition of the Festival Gigante 2021, a series of open-air gigs on two stages that will alternate concerts during the last week of August. Alcalá es vida by Gigante!
The territory of the Community of Madrid hosts more than 70 tourist routes properly geolocated that allow tourists and visitors to discover every corner of the region. These are hiking, cultural, historical and even gastronomic routes, a thematic way to satisfy the different curiosities of the attendees.
The Legacy of Carmen Sánchez. The last lesson is an exhibition that pays tribute to the generosity of Carmen Sánchez García (1929-2016), a woman dedicated to teaching who actively contributed to the Fundación Amigos Museo del Prado since 2003. The set consists on 15 paintings that complete the permanent collection of the National Museum.
Madrid does have a beach and today we have the perfect plan to recommend. Summers in Madrid can be boiling hot and to help make them more bearable, the ideal thing is to constantly hydrate, apply tanning cream and, why not, take a dip!
The Regional Archaeological Museum (MAR) in Alcalá de Henares has improved accessibility for different audiences by organizing guided tours designed for people with blindness or visual impairment. An expert guide from the museum will be in charge of accompanying visitors on an adventure full of surprises.
If you like literature, adventures, mystery or contemplating a starry night, it’s your lucky season. Here we recommend you three touring ideas: literary routes, magical routes or even a cosmic route through the region of Madrid, it’s your choice! Whatever you like, Madrid always has the perfect plan for you.
If you were wondering what musical events would be happening in the Community of Madrid this summer, you can now make a note in your calendar. We bring you three very original and different plans with music as the undisputed protagonist.
Veranos de la Villa 2021 festival returns this year to host the very much acclaimed cycle also presented last year. In collaboration with the Federation of Chefs and Pastry Chefs of Spain (FACYRE), “Comerse el verano” returns, which is Spanish for “eating the summer”. This summer indulge with this idea with tasty desserts as protagonists to satisfy all tastes. A summer ... to eat it!
This summer, Espacio Fundación Telefónica is launching great alternatives to fight the heat so that both children and adults can lose track of time for a few hours. Take a look at some of the summer activities we want to recommend.
The bio-healthy parks are your option this summer to get in shape and enjoy the outdoors. The machines in these parks will allow you to exercise and tone muscles and joints for as long as you want.
Summer is a time to have fun and spend time outdoors regardless of age. That is why, this week, we recommend you these three activities: Sharks, ideal for children, Color. The knowledge of the invisible, where young people will enjoy an explosion of color for the senses, and The flower thief, culture for the most curious adults.
August brings you three of the most popular fests in the City of Madrid. Allow us to tell you how locals and visitors celebrate the local festivities of San Cayetano, San Lorenzo and La Paloma, three dates with the best preserved tradition of the capital.
Teatralia Circus 2021 is the family festival that arrives after last year’s success and where you can fulfill all your scenic dreams. Circus, dance, music and physical theater are just some elements within four different shows including an overall of 8 performances.
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