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Honouring the 275th anniversary of his birth, immerse yourself in the work of Francisco de Goya like never before. #INGOYA, the exhibition that combines art and technology. An immersive experience in which more than a thousand images of more than two hundred paintings and engravings of the famous Aragonese painter are projected.
If you like live concerts, quality, delicate and close music, you can not miss Canal Jazz 2021, the series of jazz gigs that can be enjoyed at the Canal Theaters in Madrid until December 17.
Walk along the Paseo del Prado and the Buen Retiro, the monumental enclave of Madrid recently declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Until December 8, enjoy 75 free guided tours through this "Landscape of Light".
One hundred years have passed since the birth of the dancer and choreographer Antonio Ruiz Soler, more popularly known as 'Antonio el Bailarín'. To celebrate it, the National Ballet of Spain has designed a great tribute to this Sevillian artist with stagings faithful to the original pieces. It can be seen at the Teatro Real in Madrid from October 13 to 16, opening the dance season.
Enjoy this autumn of the Sunday days at the Hipódromo de la Zarzuela. Every Sunday morning, you will be able to enjoy a complete offer of leisure and restaurants in addition to the spectacle of the horse races and competitions programmed.
Until October 10, Madrid becomes the city of buildings during the XVIII Architecture Week, the event that celebrates the architectural heritage of the capital with up to 140 organized activities: visits to buildings, urban routes, exhibitions and children's activities, and much more!
This fall the myth of Don Juan returns to Alcalá de Henares. The tribute festivity to the famous character of the play by José Zorrilla that since 1984 fills the city of stagings and the best theater. Read on!
This fall, if you are enthusiastic about flamenco, Spanish music and palace architecture, you cannot miss the concert series "Flamenco en palacio. A diverse look at flamenco heritage", a Cultural Heritage initiative that brings the best musical tradition to different historic palaces in the region.
If you like original plans, you can not miss the Silent Disco Tours, a new concept of urban route in which participants walk through the city and dance to the rhythm of songs that listen to with headphones. Walk, dance and have fun with your family with this surprising initiative.
The region of Madrid celebrates this fall for the first time the Hispanidad 2021 festival, with dozens of free activities and an extensive cultural program for all audiences, with the participation of more than 250 artists from different disciplines. Take part in this great party!
Moralzarzal is a Madrid municipality located at the foot of the Sierra de Guadarrama that offers an idyllic setting both to enjoy nature and to practice sports in a rural environment. Therefore, we propose up to 9 different routes that will please both hiking enthusiasts and more experienced athletes looking for more demanding challenges.
Madrid joins the 12th edition of "Restaurants fighting Hunger", a humanitarian initiative in which many restaurants offer solidarity menus for the fight against hunger and poverty. Until November 15 you can collaborate with any of the restaurants participating in our region, pay attention!
Madrid shines with all its light for LuzMadrid, the 1st International Festival of Light of Madrid that will transform the night of the capital into a dazzling spectacle. From October 29 to 31, a multitude of artistic proposals will adorn its most emblematic places with magic, spectacle and creativity. Read on!
On October 1, the region of Madrid celebrates a new edition of "La Noche de los libros", the exciting literary evening in which many institutions, bookstores, libraries and cultural centers organize meetings with writers and publishers to bring literature to all audiences. Over 400 activities set throughout 81 towns of the region.
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.
September is a month to return to routine. To make it more bearable we remind you up to six exhibitions to visit to liven up the arrival of the new season, pay attention!
Autumn begins and as every season the Strawberry Train returns, a unique experience in which you will travel on a train with more than a century of history making the historic journey of just 50 kilometers linking the cities of Madrid and the Royal Site and Villa de Aranjuez.
Madrid celebrates this Autumn Surge Madrid, the VIII Muestra de Creación Escénica. Until October 31, enjoy the great event that will fill more than 20 halls and scenic spaces in the region with works and proposals from a multitude of companies.
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