Hotel Puerta de Toledo

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Categories: Madrid Conciertos

At the end of June, a memorial concert was held in tribute to everyone who has sadly passed away due to COVID-19. But it wasn’t a concert like we’re used to, as the new normal has also transformed this. The chosen setting was the Torre de Cristal, giving even more meaning to the saying ‘From Madrid to Heaven’. Read full article

Categories: Madrid Ocio

This month has kicked off with the reopening of the Teatro Real in Madrid, with the premiere of a semi-staged version of La Traviata, running all month

July has kicked off with an event that was welcomed with great expectation and enthusiasm. We’re talking about the reopening of the Teatro Real in Madrid, Read full article

Categories: Madrid Eventos

Experts say that contacts outdoors are 20 times less likely to catch the virus than indoors. Even though the new normality has already begun, many people are still very cautious and prefer to avoid meetings in homes or indoors.

Now, moreover, along with the coronavirus, comes the battle, bridging the gap, with the heat, Read full article

Categories: Madrid Ocio

The much talked about new normality, which is the protagonist of countless zoom meetings and face-to-face conversations on bar terraces, will take longer to arrive for some activities than for others.

Not only do theatres and cinemas find it difficult and unprofitable to open with a reduced capacity, this is impossible for the live concert halls in Madrid. Read full article

Categories: Madrid Cultura

At the end of May, when Madrid moved into the first phase of Spain’s lockdown exit strategy, the parks and gardens began to reawaken. It was about time, too, after so much time surrounded by concrete, with glum looks and odd expressions behind masks facing the ground.

The Botanical Gardens were among those that brought the most joy when they reopened. Read full article

Categories: Madrid Ocio

Since March the city has been slowly coming back to life, as bars have opened their shutters again and the terraces have filled up with people. Certain places, though, like cinemas, theatres and museums, the recovery will be a slow one – there’s still a lot of fear of the virus, so these places are still struggling to make ends meet. Read full article

Categories: Madrid Ocio

Madrid never sleeps and the region is looking to offer options for when life is back to normal and day trips out of the city are on the cards again.

So, until this happens, the Ministry of Tourism has proposed a journey back to the Middle Ages by visiting the region’s castles and fortresses until they can be seen in real life, Read full article

Categories: Madrid Cultura

May has always been a busy month packed with activities in Madrid. Basically, because the month includes the city’s two major fiestas: the regional one on 2 May and the city’s patron saint, San Isidro (the patron of farmers and agricultural workers), on 15 May.

Madrid Book Fair from 2 to 18 October 2020

We saw some spontaneous – and pretty inappropriate – celebrations in Malasaña on 2 May that attracted the attention of TV channels and the police given the situation. Read full article

Categories: Madrid Eventos

It will take a while for things to go back to normal in Madrid. So much so that people have started referring to the future as the “new normal”, as if implying like will never go back to being the way it was. And it certainly seems that is the way things are going to be for some time, Read full article

Categories: Madrid Ocio