The celebration of the Chinese New Year, which dates back more than 4,000 years, coincides with the beginning of the crop cycle, bids farewell to winter and welcomes a new season, so it is also known as the “Spring Festival”. In 2024, the Year of the Dragon (beginning on 10 February) will be celebrated, and like in previous years, there will be a full programme of activities to celebrate it.
Each year, Madrid City Council joins in the Chinese New Year celebrations with an extensive programme of activities for all tastes and ages, to see in the New Year.
This programme, organised by the Department for Culture, Tourism and Sport and Usera District Council, with the collaboration of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China, Chinese associations in Usera, artistic groups, neighbourhood associations, Casa Asia and the Confucio Institute in Madrid.
The two most awaited moments are the Light Festival, with music in the small temple in Pradolongo Park and the traditional illuminated lanterns ceremony followed by a firework display and the Chinese New Year Multi-cultural Parade, which fills the Usera neighbourhood with magic, outfits brought from China, gigantic dragons and lions, iconographic elements of this country, lanterns made by children and live music.
