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Madrid flourishes in autumn

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Madrid apartments: Autumn festival in Madrid
Madrid becomes a perfect roost for culture vultures in autumn when more than 50 dance, theatre and musical groups from countries throughout Europe, the Middle East and America participate in a programme of opera, ballet, dance, music and theatre at about 40 venues throughout the city. The varied selection at […]

The Renaissance lives in Madrid

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Madrid apartments: The Museo Nacional del Prado shows Renaissance portraiture in Madrid
If you are in Madrid this weekend you must go to the Museo Nacional del Prado to see the exhibition ‘The Renaissence Portrait’. The broad time span covered by this exhibition (1400-1600) and its Europe-wide approach make it the first to provide an overview […]

Rock in Rio arrives to Madrid

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Madrid apartments: The Police, Carlinhos Brown, and Tokio Hotel will be in Rock in Rio Madrid 
Arganda del Rey (Madrid) is one of the venues for he third edition of Rock in Rio. Artis such as The Police, Neil Young, Carlinhos Brown, Jamiroquai, Lenny Kravitz, or Tokio Hotel will be playing in Arganda del Rey, Madrid, on June […]

Picasso visits Madrid

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

If you are planning a trip to Madrid I have a recommendation for you. Make some time to visit the Reina Sofia Museum because is displaying 430 works by Pablo Picasso on loan from the National Picasso Museum in Paris in what will be one of the biggest ever retrospectives of his art. The Reina […]

The best independent music in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, and Bilbao during the Wintercase 07

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

Here is my plan for this winter: discover urban Spain attending all the concerts scheduled in the 6th edition of Wintercase 07 San Miguel. This travelling winter music festival offers the best international independent music in Barcelona, Madrid, Bilbao and Valencia. I just need to find apartments in these cities, get some friends to share […]

Art and Culture in Madrid for a perfect Autumn weekend

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

Madrid is perfect in Autumn. It isn’t too hot or too cold. The perfect time for a weekend in this city and visits to its museums. The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid have organised an exhibition centred on German art from the late 15th to the mid 16th centuries. And the Museo Nacional Centro […]

Enjoy Madrid with free activities celebrating World Tourism Day

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

This is the week to visit Madrid. The city has organized free guided tours, distribution of promotional gifts and audiovisual guides to mark World Tourism Day on Thursday, September 27th. Madrid has been the perfect site for the World Tourism Organization’s headquarters (UNWTO) since 1976, as tourism is one of the city’s major industries, and […]

Art in movement at the Reina Sofia in Madrid

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia presents ‘Los[s] Cinético[s]’, a desire to introduce movement as a plastic element, whether in a real way with electrical and mechanical means, or in a virtual way, with optical techniques, has been a constant in 20th-century art. This exhibition will be open until the 20th of August […]

Harold Pinter in Madrid

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

You need three things: love for the theater, be in Madrid and understand Harold Pinter’s plays. If you have those 3 requirements then you will enjoy a night in the Teatro Español. Alfonso Ungría directs ‘Pinter‘ a double program that features: ‘A Slight Ache’ and ‘One for the Road’ two plays by Harold Pinter. The […]

Madrid: Chuck Close exhibition at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía offers an exhibition of Chuck Close’s paintings until the seventh of May. This is an exhibition for those interested in the late modernist abstraction created in the sixties and seventies. Chuck Close has engaged these stratagems not in the pursuit of flat, geometry-dependent abstraction but in a […]