https://blog.esmadrid.com/blog/en Blog about Madrid Tue, 04 Nov 2025 07:50:02 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6.1 https://blog.esmadrid.com/blog/en/2017/05/30/inclusive-love-at-the-thyssen/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss https://blog.esmadrid.com/blog/en/2017/05/30/inclusive-love-at-the-thyssen/#respond Tue, 30 May 2017 11:20:44 +0000 Ignacio Vleming https://blog.esmadrid.com/blog/en/?p=1770

In a month’s time the city centre will probably be bursting at the seams… the seams of the rainbow flag, a symbol of the LGBT community. Roughly three million visitors are expected to arrive in Madrid to celebrate WorldPride, a huge party that draws massive crowds demanding the right to love without labels. Further to […]]]> https://blog.esmadrid.com/blog/en/2017/05/30/inclusive-love-at-the-thyssen/feed/ 0 https://blog.esmadrid.com/blog/en/2014/10/08/abello-collection/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss https://blog.esmadrid.com/blog/en/2014/10/08/abello-collection/#respond Wed, 08 Oct 2014 13:13:26 +0000 Ignacio Vleming http://blog.esmadrid.com/blog/en/?p=1026

Juan Abelló and his wife Ana Gamazo paint an exceptionally revealing picture of themselves through the works that comprise this collection, which can be viewed at CentroCentro Cibeles until 1 March. If I had to choose three words to sum up the spirit of this exhibition, they would be coherence, recovery and intimacy. “Coherence”, because even though many works […]]]> https://blog.esmadrid.com/blog/en/2014/10/08/abello-collection/feed/ 0 https://blog.esmadrid.com/blog/en/2014/08/29/el-greco-and-modern-painting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss https://blog.esmadrid.com/blog/en/2014/08/29/el-greco-and-modern-painting/#respond Fri, 29 Aug 2014 12:38:19 +0000 Ignacio Vleming http://blog.esmadrid.com/blog/en/?p=1020

The Prado Museum joins in to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of El Greco with a large exhibition that points to a connection between the artist’s work and the avant-garde. We often use the cliché of the “painter ahead of his time”, as if the history of art were a linear series of discoveries. This […]]]> https://blog.esmadrid.com/blog/en/2014/08/29/el-greco-and-modern-painting/feed/ 0 https://blog.esmadrid.com/blog/en/2013/04/01/dalis-madrid/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss https://blog.esmadrid.com/blog/en/2013/04/01/dalis-madrid/#respond Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:05:56 +0000 Ignacio Vleming http://blog.esmadrid.com/blog/en/?p=652

From 27 April to 2 September, the Reina Sofía Museum is holding a fantastic exhibition on Salvador Dalí. That is why I’ve been asked to write a post on the adventures of this eccentric and concentric genius, as he would often describe himself, in Madrid, where he lived from 1922 to 1926. At first I […]]]> https://blog.esmadrid.com/blog/en/2013/04/01/dalis-madrid/feed/ 0 https://blog.esmadrid.com/blog/en/2013/01/28/419/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss https://blog.esmadrid.com/blog/en/2013/01/28/419/#respond Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:58:50 +0000 Ignacio Vleming http://blog.esmadrid.com/blog/en/?p=419

“The Garden of Earthly Delights”. Hieronymus Bosch, c.1500 A walk round the Prado Museum can unearth secrets only known by lovers of painting. If you look closely at these works you’ll get some “personal” knowledge about their authors, whose self-portraits are hidden away somewhere in the painting. I’ve spent hours searching for Wally on the […]]]> https://blog.esmadrid.com/blog/en/2013/01/28/419/feed/ 0 https://blog.esmadrid.com/blog/en/2013/01/17/the-palace-and-the-ritz-100-years-of-history/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss https://blog.esmadrid.com/blog/en/2013/01/17/the-palace-and-the-ritz-100-years-of-history/#respond Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:15:09 +0000 Carlos Menéndez http://blog.esmadrid.com/blog/en/?p=507

When visiting a city, the first thing you need is somewhere to stay. But that’s not what this post is about. Yes, the Palace and the Ritz are two hotels. Two centrally-located, comfortable, exclusive, classic, punctilious and perfect establishments. But the aim of this post is to help us understand why these two emblematic hotels, […]]]> https://blog.esmadrid.com/blog/en/2013/01/17/the-palace-and-the-ritz-100-years-of-history/feed/ 0