The Year of the Snake will begin on 29 Janurary 2025 and, for the tenth consecutive year, Madrid will mark the occasion with a full programme of activities.
Pick a costume, put on your dancing shoes and treat yourself to some carnival sardines! (1-5 March 2025).
Thousands flock to the city to attend the processions and to enjoy the atmosphere created by the trumpets, drums and the hundreds of religious worshippers' bright and colourful attire (24 to 31 March 2024).
Every year on and around May 15th, Madrid honours its patron saint, San Isidro.
The most important gastronomic-cultural event of the year will be holding its fourteenth edition in 2023 (Dates to be confirmed).
Veranos de la Villa is an annual summer festival held in Madrid that offers numerous cultural and leisure offerings (Various venues throughout July and August).
The city's squares, buildings, parks and monuments will twinkle with installations and projections designed by more than twenty visual artists (27 to 29 October).
Madrid celebrates jazz in November with a festival that features some of the genre's greatest artists (Various venues. Oct-Nov 2024).
As Christmas trees and decorations light up streets and squares, Madrid celebrates everyone’s favourite holiday with a programme packed with cultural and leisure activities.