Summer tends to bring out the best in everyone, including the multitude of temporary exhibitions around the city. Explore the worlds of contemporary art, history painting, fashion, photography, modern portraits and architecture at the best places in town. This is your chance to visit the biggest shows at the major venues and see what all the fuss is about. Here is our selection: Hidden Beauty “Fra Angelico to Fortuny” Museo del Prado Fra Angelico to Fortuny offers an historical-artistic survey of the Museo del Prado collections,with more than 250 paintings in which the common denominator is their small size, reflecting…
5 Reasons to choose Madrid as your next destination
The weather & outgoing people: Traditionally dry and hot weather in the city is usually bright and bolstering. That’s why the locals love to sit and talk on the beautiful outdoor terraces. Amazing Cultural Heritage: From historical buildings to new icons of architecture, Madrid is home to impressive buildings and monuments, Royal Palaces, hidden small churches covered with astonishing frescoes, monasteries that once upon a time were the Queen’s formal residences, the best Museums in the world such as the Thyssen or Prado Museum and more than 100 private art galleries. Family friendly destination: When traveling with toddlers, tweens, and…
5 Emblematic Literary Cafés
Before leaving us for a couple of years to complete his PhD at Columbia University in Spanish Literature … our guide David Mejia wants to share with us his favorite Bookstores and Cafés. This is his post: Madrid is a city with a long literary tradition: neighborhoods, for centuries occupied by writers, nineteenth century cafes and emblematic bookstores.If you come to Madrid, bring a book. Here is a list the cafes with the best atmosphere to read: Café Comercial Wonderful decadence Café Gijón,Pure tradition Café Barbieri, Classicism in the most cosmopolitan quartier Café de Oriente, In front of the Royal…
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Crossing the boundaries between art and architecture
In the most recent decade, Madrid played a strong role in contemporary architecture, and we can say, with pride, that the expositive outlook of the world´s best architects have been show-cased in the city. It is not easy to have the majority of observers agree on the final result of such work, especially when the language of art is not based on that which is ¨traditionally¨ beautiful. For this reason, I especially love the controversial pieces. As an example, we can take a look at The Obelisco of Santiago Calatrava. ¨This is a moving monument that participates in the vertical…
5 personal favorite Masterpieces
Our country is a land of creative thinkers and makers. This city is brilliantly light, and it could be for this reason that such great painters – as Velázquez, Goya, Sorolla, Picasso – were inspired. It was in the past, and continues today, in the twenty-first, to be a city of light and thought. In Madrid, the cultural, artistic, vanguard, gastronomic and literary life is always alive and moving. Every day is full of surprises! It´s well known as a city that never sleeps. Perhaps, the Madrilenian muses come out at night? This is the city that I always come…
