Because Madrid is also an infinite collection of leisure plans that range from nature to culture, without forgetting the most mysterious history of the capital. We offer you seven plans for all tastes to enjoy Holy Week without leaving Madrid.
Tour the Monte de El Pardo
We are capable of traveling halfway around the world to make a trail, forgetting one that we have just a few kilometers away. If you are one of those who enjoy exploring nature, but always rule out Madrid because it is all polygons and urbanizationswe remind you that at your disposal there are trails in the middle of nature like those in El Pardo.
Ok, it is still part of a private preserve of the Royal Family, but perhaps soon it will be a new National Park. Meanwhile, you can tour the Valpalomero Natural Trail of five kilometers or the Peñarrubia of 4.5 kilometers to enjoy this environment in the north of the capital.
Discover the mysteries of the House of the Seven Chimneys
If your thing is the big city and discovering its dark side, we already know that Madrid is full of “darkness”. There are many mystery routes that you can take around the capital, but we recommend that you go to Chueca to discover one of those houses where everything happened… or they say everything happened: from the most famous mutiny in the history of Spain to the tragedy of a woman locked up at the whim of a king.
Roll along the Tajuña Greenway
At the time of writing these lines, and after two weeks of intense cold (40 is the new 30 and March is the new February), it seems that the sun is beginning to shine, announcing the arrival of spring. So it’s a good time to dust off our bikes and get rolling taking advantage of some of the greenways in our region.
Particularly interesting is the Vía Verde del Tajuña, an itinerary of 49 kilometers long between Arganda del Rey and Morata de Tajuña, surrounding several natural spaces, such as the Regional Park Axes of the Lower Courses of the Manzanares and Jarama Rivers.
Exhibition sale
If you have never lived in “provinces” you will never appreciate how lucky you are in relation to the exhibitions you can enjoy in a city like Madrid. It may sound cliché to propose a plan of this type, but sometimes we do not approach these cultural spaces because pure laziness.
Well, get your ass out of your seat, leave Netflix once and for all, and go enjoy events like Chagall, a cry for freedom, The Berlin Wall. A world divided, Piranesi. Roman magnificence, Antoni Tapies. The practice of art, or the Pixar exhibition at Ifema that has been extended until May 26. Of course, the price of the latter makes you think of heist movies, rather than Reverse and toy story.
The Magical Path of Arroyomolinos
If you don’t want to take out a second mortgage to finance the entrance to Pixar, take your family and go to the south of Madrid to explore the Arroyomolinos Magical Trail. Another way to enjoy nature and fantasy on a tour in which you will discover together a lot of gnomes, fairies and trolls. It’s not Eurodisney or Legoland, but there is no entrance fee. And there is plenty of shade.
Let’s go to a concert
Yes, yes, there is no shortage of concerts on this list of plans either. But if you have lived in a provincial city you can’t even imagine what happens if you are a music fan. For someone capable to tour your city in the middle of nowhere it has to be almost an accident in the municipal programming, with all our respects to the Domino and Vetusta Morla orchestra.
We tell you what you can see in Madrid at the end of March, early april: Malú at Circo Price, Russian Red at Eslava, Fletcher at Vistalegre, Niall Horan, Kadec Santa Anna and Jason Derulo at the Wizink Center, Agoraphobia at Clamores, and the American Rock Stars El Escorial Tribute Festival: Metallica and Nirvana at concert!
Discover a neighborhood in Madrid that you don’t know
No matter how much of a Madrid native you are, I’m sure you still have many areas of Madrid to explore beyond the jack, horse and king from Gran Vía, Sol and Castellana. Because the real Madrid is beyond the tourist route that leads from buying the Madrid shirt at the Bernabéu to spending the yen in Las Rozas Village. That’s not the Madrid we like, right?
Would you know, for example, how to locate San Pascual on the map? Does Valdezarza sound familiar to you? And Castillejos? Have you ever walked through the controlled town of Fuencarral? How long has it been since you stepped foot in Vallecas? Furthermore, have you ever set foot in Vallecas in your life? Throw a coin in the air and walk through one of the 131 neighborhoods of Madrid. And don’t stop at the first terrace you see, it’s not “getting to know” a neighborhood.
