In only a few days Depeche Mode will be in Madrid and they will perform twice in Palacio De Deportes de la Comunidad. On both January 17th and 18th they will do some awesome concerts, and you bet it will be packed in the venue on both evenings.
So our only task is to wish everyone with tickets for the concerts two wonderful evenings, and do not forget to check out the beautiful attractions of Madrid while in town.
Tickets:
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My wife and I are 66 and 71 years old. Is there a discount for entry into El Escorial?
First of all, thank you for your question. There are quite a lot of discounts available if you plan on visiting El Escorial, and one of those discounts are for seniors. The official El Escorial entrance fee information site tell us that:
If you want to enter El Escorial for free, that can also be arranged, quite easily. Children under 5 years will always enter for free. On May 18th El Escorial has free entrance for everyone throughout the entire day.
The best option is still that every Wednesday and Thursday from 15.00-18.00 (between October and March) and between 17.00 and 20.00 from April and September there is free entrance for members of the European Union and for Latin Americans.
Good luck, and enjoy your stay in Madrid and El Escorial.
Ask your Madrid question in Madrid questions and answers!
When somebody travel to the capital of Spain, the city what laid on the Mezeta, to Madrid, there are several interesting programs on the whole year. In the Mediterranean city it worth to see the amazing buildings, like the Plaza Real or the San Francisco el Grande Church, the city’s most famous center, the Puerta del Sol and the most famous museums, for example the Museo del Prado.
The Prado Museum is the national museum of Madrid, where there are great permanent and temporary exhibitions all the time. One of these fantastic exhibitions the “Spanish Drawings from the British Museum”, what shows 200 pictures from the 16th century to the 20th century, and it can be seen between 20 March 2013 and 16 June 2013. Drawings of renaissance artists, works of creators from Spain and other nations, for example from Italy, and the famous Spanish painter, Francisco de Goya’s masterpieces. The creators of the exhibited pictures for example Alonso Berruguete, Spanish painter from the 16th century, Vicente Carducho and Alonso Cano, Madrid artists from the 17th century, José Camarón from the 18th century, and naturally the already mentioned Goya.
Do not miss this memorable exhibition in the Prado Museum between 20 March 2013 and 16 June 2013 in the capital of Spain, Madrid. If you like arts and you are curious about the works of four centuries; this exhibition is just for you! Have a great time!
Spanish Drawings from the British Museum
March 20th – June 16th
Prado Museum
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
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
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
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.
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!
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
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 – 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!
