The Crystal Palace of Madrid’s Retiro Park is probably one of the most charming and delightful parks in the city. Its condition for years now as the extension of the National Museum Centro de Arte Reina Sofia as a temporary exhibition hall offers visitors perhaps above all the profound and delicate ability to grasp [...]

Madrid is ideal for family holidays, you just have to know it to understand the reasons why many families choose it as a holiday destination. So you do not have to waste time finding fun activities you can do with your kids, we share some of advice that will make everyone happy. Faunia is [...]

In his enigmatic, unclassifiable and unforgettable book, El Cómputo del ocho (The Computation of eight), the Samoan writer Albert Hanover refers to the Callejón del Gato (the Cat’s Alley) as one of the three essential points of the triangle, in whose heart is inscribed the magical heart of Madrid. Not for nothing, according to legend, [...]

While three days may seem at first not too much time, a full weekend can make for a great time in a city like Madrid. From these lines we dare to suggest three slightly different plans with respect to those things which the city is famous for and you’ll find featured in [...]

The Museo ABC Centro de Arte/Dibujo/Ilustración of Madrid exhibits, until the 26th of February, the exhibition ‘La elegancia del dibujo. Crónica de Paris de Carlos Sáenz de Tejada’ (‘The elegance of a drawing. Chronicles of Paris by Carlos Sáenz de Tejada’ in English). The exhibition, for the first time represented in Spain, is organized around [...]

These aren’t easy or beautiful times for Europe. Both Lucas Papademos in Greece and Mario Monti in Italy are Prime Miniesters who haven’t been chosen democratically but bankers who are closely associated with Goldman Sachs. Both are, at the moment, only the most extreme example of the phenomenon of imposition with the active collusion of [...]

The twenty-first century so far, belongs to Barcelona, ​​but it would be easy to refute that Real Madrid, chosen by FIFA as the best football club of the twentieth century, remains perhaps as the most legendary. It is, of course, by the number of titles won, but also for having been [...]

Around 1941, right in the middle of postwar Spain, a surrealist and absurd comedy publication appeared which had just as many fans as detractors. It was ‘La Codorniz’, ‘the most audacious magazine for the most intelligent reader’, as it defined itself. It had a long life, from 1941 until 1978, when, probably due to changes [...]

From the 18th of January until the 5th of February you can enjoy, at the Sala Roja in Madrid, the entertaining theatre play ‘Time and the Conways’ (‘El tiempo y los Conways’ in Spanish). From the hand of Pérez de la Fuente Producciones, this sensational play based on the novel of John Boynton Priestley, published [...]

A double concert will open the year of live music for lovers of Gothic and Darkwave, two bands of great experience, lots of records and, at least in the case of Clan of Xymox, tons of musical experimentation. Clan of Xymox starts in 1984, when Ronny Moorings, Anka Wolbert and Pieter Nooter join the project, [...]