Sightseeing in Madrid - City Guide

SPORTS

Sports Day

June, 15th

An opportunity to practise different sports at differents sights in order to promote Madrid as Olympic site 2016. The sites will show the different colors of the Olypic rings:

Red ring: Plaza de Cibeles- an Olympic village for everybody

Blue ring: Retiro Park- athletics, horse racing and water sports among others

Green ring: Paseo del Prado- boxing, fencing, gymnastics and more

Black ring: Paseo de Recoletos- football, hockey, hand- and basketball

Yellow ring: Plaza de Neptuno- badminton, tennis, volleyball, etc.

This event will take place every year from now on.

Pre-Olympic Female Basketball

Telefonica Arena Madrid

June 9th - 15th

World Volleyball League

Palacio Vistalegre

June 27th

Spring-Summer Season at the Race Course

A-6, Autovia A Coruña km 8

June 15th and 22nd

MUSIC

Ballet

Felicitas

June 5th - 29th

Teatro Gran Via

Gran Via,66

Ballet Flamenco de Madrid

The Feeling

Teatro Reina Victoria

Carrera de San Jeronimo, 24

Opera

Vec Makropulos

Teatro Real

Plaza Isabel II

June 16th - 18th, 21rst - 23rd, 25th and 28th - 30th

Rock in Rio

Ciudad del Rock

Arganda del Rey, Madrid

June 27th - July 6th

Jorge Drexler

Teatro Albeniz

Paz, 11

June 12th

Miguel Bose

Plaza de Toros de las Ventas

Alcala, 237

June 12th

Juanes

Palacio Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid

Plaza de Felipe II s/n

June 26th

EXHIBITIONS

Miro: Earth

Thyssen Bornemizsa Museum

Paseo del Prado, 8

June 17th - September 14th

The Renaissance Portrait

Prado Museum

Paseo del Prado s/n

June 3rd - September 7th

Chaplin in Images

Caixaforum

Paseo del Prado, 36

June 20th - October 19th

Goya in Times of War

Museo del Prado

until July 13th

Egyptian Underwater Treasures

Matadero Madrid

Paseo de la Chopera, 14

until September 28th

Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939)

until August 31rst

Caixaforum

Paseo del Prado, 36

Edward Steichen, Fashion Photography

Museo del Traje

Avenida de Juan de Herrera, 2

June 25th - September 14th

Jose Damasceno. Coordinates and Apparitions

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia

Santa Isabel, 52

until June 23rd

Rodin. The Naked Body

Fundacion Mapfre

Avenida General Peron, 40

until July 6th

FAIR

Second Hand Vehicle Show

Feria de Madrid

June 13th - 22nd

Sustainable Development Conference

Palacio Municipal de Congresos

June 24th

World Petroleum Congress

Feria de Madrid

June 29th - July 3rd

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