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Juan Fernández el Labrador exhibition at the Prado Museum

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Madrid Guide

Maybe not everyone knows the famous Spanish painter, Juan Fernández el Labrador’s name, but he left back beautiful masterpieces from the 17th century. He was known as “El Labrador”. The baroque painter worked between 1629 and 1636, and he was mostly known because of his still life works. Are you curious about the artist’s most beautiful works? Than read this article, because you can know more about the next exhibition.

In the Prado Museum in Madrid people can see a fantastic exhibition of the works of El Labrador between 12 March 2013 and 16 June 2013. The beautiful still life works charm everybody, so it doesn’t matter if visitors don’t know the artist.

Tourists, who travel to Madrid, want to see the central square of the Spanish’s capital, the Puerta del Sol, the Plaza de Oriente with the Palacio Real and the Catedral de la Almudena, and naturally the Spanish national museum, the Prado Museum. Moreover, those, who visit to the Prado, can see the still life works of El Labrador, which could be a fantastic experience. If you are one of the lucky tourists, who can spend some days in the capital of Spain until 16 June, do not miss the listed program opportunities, especially the exhibition of Juan Fernández el Labrador’s works. If you adore arts and culture, and you mostly like still life, than this is a program for you!

Juan Fernández el Labrador exhibition
Prado Museum
March 12th – June 16th

Recommended spring hotels in Madrid 2013

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Madrid Guide

Spring has arrived and so has the tourists. April, June and May are some of the most popular months of the year to visit Madrid and if you want to find a good hotel in this period you better hurry up and book right away. But, what should you look for when you book a hotel in Madrid?

The most important when you book in Madrid is a hotel with a good location, preferably in the center of Madrid and near a metro station. We have looked around for such hotels with free rooms and good prices, and here you will find three hotels which we can warmly recommend to our visitors. In addition to good location and prices these hotels have received lots of praise from other visitors, which is a great plus and makes you more safe when visiting any of them.

While here in the Madrid Guide make sure to read about the most famous attractions and best activities in Madrid in addition to the information about hotels.

Recommended hotels in Madrid 2013:
Urban Hotel
Gran Versailles (cheap, near metro)
Hotel Carlos V

Eros Ramazotti Madrid 2013

Posted on February 6, 2013January 14, 2014 by Madrid Guide

The capital of Spain, Madrid, is the most amazing city in autumn. It’s a little far from the sea, so in this time, there’s beautiful weather there, so there aren’t any difficulty to tourists to see the most interesting sights in Madrid. It’s exactly the perfect timing for Eros Ramazotti’s concert in 21 September 2013 in the Palacio de Deportes Comunidad de Madrid. The city is a very interesting concert place for Ramazotti, who has several songs in Spanish language.

We don’t have to show Eros Ramazotti. The Italian singer is famous for everyone because of his romantic ballads and rock works too.

He was born in Rome’s suburb in 1963. He has started the musician career in 1982, when he reached the finals of the music festival of Castrocaro and because of his talent, he was sighed by the DDD records in this year too. His career has started and doesn’t stop! He has made several albums and duets with the biggest stars together.

Eros Ramazotti’s newest album, the Noi has released in the November of 2012, and the album popularizing tour will start in the spring of 2013 until September of 2013.

The wonderful Madrid is the last stop of the tour, so we could say, in case of the Noi tour, this is the last chance! Don’t miss the Indian summer’s last big concert! Be the part of the miracle in 21 September 2013 in the Palacio Deportes Comunidad de Madrid in the capital of Spain, Madrid! Have a nice time!

Eros Ramazotti Madrid 2013
September 21st
Comunidad

Tickets: Viagogo – Seatwave.com – WorldTicketShop

Van Dyck in Madrid

Posted on January 24, 2013January 24, 2013 by Madrid Guide

The capital of Spain, Madrid, the city on the grand Meseta is waiting for all visitors with several interesting sightseeing experiences. We can talk about the famous Puerta del Sol, the Plaza Mayor or the Retiro Park, but we have to say some world about Madrid’s famous museum, the Prado Museum.

The Prado Museum’s new temporary exhibition is of course the exhibition of the young Anton Van Dyck’s masterpieces. Anton Van Dyck is a Fleming painter who was born in 1599. His master was the famous Peter Paul Rubens. Van Dyck wasn’t just a pupil of Rubens, he was the right hand of the Master, and after that he was a portrait painter in the court of the British king, Charles the I.

The Prado Museum Madrid primarily shows the famous painter’s masterpieces from the early ages to the visitors. These paintings mostly illustrate historical events and we could see clearly the influence of Rubens on them. Together with the works from the Prado’s own collection we will also be able to see pieces from other collections, such as Saint Jerome in the Desert, from the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden, and Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem, from the Indianapolis Museum of Art. These masterpieces was made before Van Dyck’s journey to Italy, so we could see masterpieces before the inspirations of this trip. The trying of a starter painter give an amazing experience to the visitors.

The starting of the exhibition is 20 November 2012 and the end is 31 March 2013. Enjoy the Flemish artist’s masterpieces about history and mythology in the Prado Museum, Madrid.

More information about the exhibition:

Opening time: From Monday to Saturday, between 10 AM and 8 PM, on Sundays between 10 AM and 7 PM.
Transportation:
Bus: 9, 10, 14, 19, 27, 34, 37, 45
Metro: Atocha (L1)/ Banco de España (L2)
Tickets: General tickets: 12 Euro, Reduced tickets: 6 Euro

Have a culture shock in Madrid!

Gastrofestival in Madrid

Posted on January 23, 2013January 23, 2013 by Madrid Guide

Spain’s capital, Madrid, is always gives a wonderful surprise to its visitors, like an interesting exhibition or a fantastic festival. This is the same thing this year too, because it organizes the annual event in Madrid, the Gastro festival.

This is the fourth time, when this festival presents culinary delight to the local citizens and the visitors too. Special meals, discounts, events, exhibitions and shops are waiting for you in January in the Spanish capital.

The festival lasts for more than two weeks. More than three hundred stores participating in it, such as restaurants, cocktail bars, cook schools, clothing and accessories stores, cultural events, galleries and museums are made for the big event. The programs can be divided into six categories; Sensory Experiences, Gastroculture Gourmet Madrid, Gastrofashion, Gastrohealth and Wine Culture. In addition, there will be four more categories in this year at the festival, and these are the Route for the Sweet-Tooth, the Colombian Coffee Route, Menus by Elle and Gastronomy in Music.

If you are interested in the Spanish cuisine, fine wines, Mediterranean flavors, do not miss this unforgettable event in Madrid, the Gastro festival. Taste the chocolate con churros, grab a cocktail, enjoy yourself!

The festival is available between 19 January 2013 and 3 February 2013. It is impossible to appoint the location of the festival, because it’s in the whole city, so you have a good chance that wherever you go to Madrid, you run into one of the festival’s program.

Eat, drink, have fun at the Gastro festival in Madrid

New Years Eve in Madrid

Posted on December 28, 2012December 28, 2012 by Madrid Guide

Buenos días amigos! This greeting will welcome everybody who visits the Meseta, where Spain’s capital Madrid is. Bullfights, tasty wines, delicious dishes and everything for the eyes and the mouth will entice the visitors. These traditions are available at New Years Eve as well.

I’m sure everybody have heard about the Spanish Catholic traditions, characteristic dishes and drinks, moreover traditional which are solid as a rock, but they share these with everyone with full of heart.

The center of the Spanish New Year’s Eve is Madrid’s most important road junction, the Puerta del Sol. This little square in the center of Madrid – in English is the Gate of the Sol (Puerta del Sol) – not a real park or gate, but it has a very important function of the city’s life.

So the celebrators assemble at this spot with lots of champagne and happy mood and waiting for the New Year. When the famous clock, the Real Casa de Correos shows the midnight, Spanish people eat one grape after every chime. This tradition born in 1909, and the legend says all the twelve grapes bring you lucky for all the twelve months.

And for everyone who wants to go out and tastes the gifts of the twelve grapes, for example the Spanish champagnes and wines after the traditional New Year’s Eve greeting, Madrid offers lots of party opportunities in numberless clubs and pubs for everybody.
We wish you had a good time and a very Happy New Year!

Gauguin and the Voyage to the Exotic

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Madrid Guide

“Gauguin and the Voyage to the Exotic – A round-trip journey to the exotic in Modernism.” This is the title of a very interesting exhibition currently on display in the Thyssen-Bornemissza museum in Madrid. This exhibition displays the work of Gauguin and how a trip to Tahiti so much influenced him and this works. This is an amazing exhibition if you are a fan of Gauguin and his works and you should for sure not pity the 10 Euro entrance fee to this exhibition.

This was first put on display on October 9th and will be on display until January 13th in 2013. The curator is Paloma Alarcó and he has done a great job in setting all of this together. We can warmly recommend this!

Read about other museums in Madrid!

Ps: Do not forget that the museum is closed on Mondays, so if you want to visit the Gauguin and the Voyage to the Exotic in Thyssen-Bornemissza museum you need to visit the place between Tuesday and Sunday. In general the museum is open from 10.00 until 19.00. Enjoy!

Where can I watch Real Madrid – Ajax live on the web tonight?

Posted on December 4, 2012May 18, 2017 by Madrid Guide

Thank you for the question… If you want to see Real Madrid play against Ajax live on the web tonight there are probably several options. Here we will only describe one which is quite easy, not expensive and which can be useful for lots of other stuff as well.

The dutch channel NOS will broadcast this match live tonight and thus you can watch the Real Madrid – Ajax match live on the web through their webpage. But, the problem is only that the broadcast can only be seen live on the net for people with a Dutch IP address. This might sound technical, but this simply means that in a way you need to be located in Holland somewhere to see their live broadcast online.

But this is very simple to arrange by the help of a software provided by HideMyAss. If you visit their webpage you can subscribe to their service (which at the moment is discounted because of a large Christmas sale) and once this is done you can download their software and connect to one of their servers in Holland. Once this is done you can take a look at the NOS Sport webpage again and you will be able to see their live stream featuring the match between Real Madrid and Ajax tonight live from all over the world.

For more information you can read the following article (which is not up to date), but it still contains all the information and links you need to fix this thing and to watch the match later tonight.

The principle is very much the same for other live broadcasts in other nations and so. This means that if you for example would want to see ITV live tonight as they show the match between Arsenal and Olimpiakos this can be arranged in the same way with the same software. This again means that you can in this way pretend to be everywhere in the world almost and thus watch lots of content online which would normally be available only to people inside that given nation.

We could go on and on and mention other examples, but these are at least some ways in which you can watch the Real Madrid – Ajax match tonight, and if you are interested also watch the Arsenal – Olimpiakos match.

How to watch Spanish web-tv from abroad?

Posted on October 16, 2012May 18, 2017 by Madrid Guide

Since Spanish television was launched in 1956 lots of stuff has happened, and nowadays it is very normal to watch Spanish television online. During larger sports events, olympic games and of course when breaking news take place, even more people gather together in front of the computer screen to watch such events online. But, when you go abroad and would like to stay up to date on what is happening in Spain, and maybe watch a soccer match or some other program online, you will often find that the broadcast is only available to those located in Spain, and that the broadcast is not available from abroad, or from outside Spain. What is the solution, how to watch Spanish web-tv from abroad?

The solution is to get a VPN connection to a server in Spain, thus creating a virtual tunnel between your current location and a server located in Spain. When the connection is made, it will seem to all internet servers as if you are located in Spain, and not outside Spain somwhere in the world. It might sound difficult, but it is really easy, thanks to HideMyAss. They are a company providing such VPN connections for a very little fee, and they also offer a software making it all very easy. You simply visit their webpage, subcribe for one month, six months or for a year. Once this is done you download the program, enter your username and password – and after that you connect to a server located in Spain (you will see a long list of servers in Spain and in lots of other nations in the world in the program). Once the connection is made you should restart your webbrowser, and once that is done you will be able to watch Spanish web-tv, just like you would do at home in Spain. If you want to learn Spanish this is also a great way to learn the language, listening and watching tv broadcasts!

There are lots of Spanish television stations, not all of them have live feeds, so check out their webpages first, but later if you find out that they only allow people with IP address in Spain to watch, grab hold of HideMyAss, and in minutes you can be enjoying the broadcast on your laptop, tablet or even on most mobilephones, wherever you are in the world. The connection is also encrypted, making it safe and untracable if you use an open WiFi for example.

Good luck and enjoy watching La 1, La 2, 24h, Teledeporte, Telecinco, Antena 3 and all the other Spanish tv channels online.

Also worth reading is how to watch NRK online from abroad?

How to get a Spanish IP address?

Posted on October 16, 2012May 18, 2017 by Madrid Guide

A Spanish IP address can be handy in quite some situations, and the reason you are here is because you are in need of a Spanish IP address, which again means that you are currently located outside Spain. It is quite easy to get hold of a Spanish IP address, especially if you are willing to pay a little bit for it. We have used a program made available from HideMyAss, and with a cheap subscription were were able to get a Spanish IP address within five minutes from the first time we read about it.

The service looks as follows. You subscribe to their services at their webpage (30 day payback guarantee), you download their software, and then with your username and password you choose a server to connect to in one of the many nations on the list within the program. Thus you will not only be able to get a Spanish IP address, but you will also be able to connect to servers all around the world, giving you an IP address in the nation you would like to. You can change as much as you want to, meaning that in one moment you can get a Spanish IP address, and then when you are in need of for example an Italian or a Hungarian IP address, then you can change and get such an address instead.

It works in such a way that a VPN (a virtual tunnel) is created between you and the server in the given nation (which you choose inside the program), and then all your data is encrypted and not seen by anyone. This is especially useful and safe in a time when you log on open WiFi’s in cafes, restaurants, hotels and so on all around the world. So as you connect to the server it will seem to all internet pages, server and such around the world as if you are staying in that given nation, and not in the nation you actually are in at the moment. It might sound difficult, but it is really easy to use, install and to understand.

So, go ahead and head over to HideMyAss and get hold of your Spanish IP address today!