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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
It is carnival time in Spain. From now until Ash Wednesday (February 21st this year) — and in some places a little longer — it is a wild, weird and wacky season of masks, parades and parties. That is probably what gave the celebration its name: carne vale, Latin, meaning “meat, farewell.” Apokreo, its Greek […]
For anybody interested in Tintoretto, who dominated Venetian painting in the second half of the XVI century through the power of his imagination, the virtuosity of his brush, the force of his personality and the sheer quantity of his production. The Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid is offering a rigorous and comprehensive survey of […]
Travelling with children in Madrid? No problem. Here are some tips for a fun trip!
Start with nature and science at the Zoo-Aquarium located at Casa de Campo, and continue with ‘bio-fun’ at the Faunia Theme Park , a biodiversity theme park made up of 8 of the worlds eco-systems and 3,500 animals. Keep some of […]
