Posts with category Madrid Cultura
When it comes to museums, it’s not all about the Prado or the Reina Sofía. A few yards from Puerta del Sol and four metro stops from our charming hotel in Madrid is the second most important museum in the Spanish capital: the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando), Read full article
One of the biggest pleasures of summer in Madrid is to notice how temperatures go down at night and you can enjoy doing things outdoors. An alternative to drinking on bar terraces is enjoying the different options of open-air cinemas that Madrid offers during this season.
At La Casa Encendida, very close from the excellent location of our accesible hotel in Madrid, Read full article
Barely ten years ago, Legazpi, a few stops from Puerta del Sol on Line 3 of the metro, had no other attraction than that of being a working-class district with a large immigrant population. Today, without having lost its character, it is the home of a cultural landmark that is bringing the area to life: Matadero Madrid. Read full article
CaixaForum in Madrid is a museum of great interest. It all starts with the vertical garden on its façade and with its architecture, built in an old factory that used to be the former Mediodía Power Plant.
Then, you have the exhibitions, all of them temporary since CaixaForum does not have a permanent collection. Read full article
The 19th century was a convulse time, a precursor of the avant-garde arts and during which artistic movements such as Romanticism emerged, a passionate, radical and wholehearted way of living life. Mariano José de Larra was one of the most illustrious Spanish romantic figures and signed his work with the nom de plume Figaro. Read full article
This year’s edition of Spain’s most important art fair will take place a little later than usual, from February 25th until March 1st. This year, the focus is on Latin-American artists, who will have a prominent representation next to the other regular and new exhibitors. Designed as a fair for collectors and art dealers, Read full article
You have to go to the Reina Sofía Museum without any previous references. Go there and let yourself be surprised and choose at random any of its ever-stimulating exhibitions. However, if one prefers to skip this suggestion, they can follow these clues on some of the most enjoyable exhibitions on show now in this great centre of art. Read full article
