Already looming on the horizon of Madrid (and its mountains) the last month of 2024. And with it, the balance of the year that is vanishing and the review of all that handful of big promises we made in January. Maybe you couldn’t keep them all. No matter: here we give you a more pleasant challenge : Christmas, winter, cultural and hedonistic proposals to eat your grapes with a good (better) conscience.
These December plans in Madrid cover endless possibilities that are not at odds, in any way, with the fantasies of Christmas. Put on your hat, your boots and take to the streets of a city dressed in lights.
Table Of Contents
- Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes (all month)
- The Berlin Wall. A World Divided (all month)
- Exhibition It from bit by Efrén Mur at Nave 0 (from December 5th)
- A Monster Comes to See Me ( December 6 to 15)
- Plaza Mayor Christmas Market (all month).
- 'Magical Christmas' in Torrejón de Ardoz (all month).
- Candlelight for Christmas
- XXX Festival Los Grandes del Góspel (until December 14)
- Mercadillo del Gato (from December 14).
- Salesas Madrid (December 21)
Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes (all month)
The official Marvel exhibition celebrates 85 years of the factory of heroes, heroines, villains and villainesses in Madrid! From historical comics to original movie costumes, the exhibition is a journey through more than 200 iconic objects, some of which are on display for the first time here.
Marvel. Universe of Super Heroes is an immersive experience whose soundtrack has been designed especially for this show; technology and large screens immerse the attendee in a superhero story without leaving Madrid.
📍 Location: Avenida del Partenón, 5 (Barajas)
💸 Tickets: From €16,90.
The Berlin Wall. A World Divided (all month)
On November 9, 1989, Berlin began a process of reunification. The wall that separated the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany was falling piece by piece, piece by piece during the whole month of December, uniting again families, friends and a city that had been split in two.
34 years later, more than 20 meters of the Berlin Wall as well as original testimonies from both sides of the wall and 300 original objects are exhibited in The Berlin Wall. A Divided World, an ambitious exhibition that reflects on the division, on borders, on the consequences of this historical moment from the personal to the collective; from the social to the political.
📍 Location: Canal Foundation (Canal)
💸 Tickets: Tickets: 15,80€.
Exhibition It from bit by Efrén Mur at Nave 0 (from December 5th)
It from bit is the new installation of the spectacular Nave 0 at Matadero. This space, which 100 years ago housed the cold room in which all the meat consumed in Madrid in a single day was stored, is today a container for contemporary art.
In December, digital artist Efrén Mur will install here a series of motion sensors that will collect data from attendees to make visible what happens in the space.
📍 Location: Paseo de la Chopera, 14 (Arganzuela)
💸 Admission: free
A Monster Comes to See Me ( December 6 to 15)
The theater company LaJoven presents in the Sala Roja of the Teatros del Canal this tremendous story, a raw come-of-age that talks about life, death… and those nightmares that a child (who has to grow up before his time) has every night since his mother fell ill.
📍 Location: Cea Bermúdez, 1 (Canal)
💸 Tickets: from 9 euros.
Plaza Mayor Christmas Market (all month).
One of the essential stamps of Madrid’s Christmas. Perhaps even THE stamp. The Christmas Market in Plaza Mayor (to be installed at the end of November) returns this year with 104 booths where you can find Christmas decorations, objects for Nativity scenes and joke items.
📍 Location: Plaza Mayor (Center)
💸 Admission: free of charge
‘Magical Christmas’ in Torrejón de Ardoz (all month).
One more year, the Madrid municipality of Torrejón de Ardoz reopens the doors of the largest Christmas Park in Spain: Mágicas Navidades. In this third edition have been “frozen tales and legends”, ice sculptures that become a kind of frozen and magical library.
These sculptures are made by the best in the world in this ephemeral art of ice. In this context, the third edition of the international festival of ice sculptures will be held.
📍 Location: Avenida Luna (Torrejón de Ardoz)
💸 Tickets: 3,50€.
Candlelight for Christmas
The magic of candles, live music, the melodies of winter and Christmas… Candlelight concert series prepares a totally dreamy Christmas dates with special shows.
🗓️ December 14 and 21, Christmas Carols
🗓️ December 15th and 29th, Christmas Soundtracks
🗓️ December 22, Christmas Classics
🗓️ December 23, The Nutcracker Ballet
📍 Location: different locations
💸 Tickets : from 11 €
XXX Festival Los Grandes del Góspel (until December 14)
The Guirau Hall of the Fernán Gómez Theater Centro Cultural de la Villa will be the stage, one more year, for the great voices of gospel. In addition, it is celebrating 30 years of the best gospel. And to celebrate it, the 2024 edition will be a summary of great moments of the last three decades.
This Christmas, Madrid will host the voices of Soweto Gospel Choir (with three Grammy Awards), Mississippi Mass Choir, The South Carolina Gospel Choir, New Orleans Gospel Choir with the great singer from Louisiana Bridget Bazile, among other artists. There will also be, as usual, a space dedicated to the little ones with the Gospel4kids format.
📍 Location: Plaza de Colón, 4 (Recoletos)
💸 Tickets: from 29 €.
Mercadillo del Gato (from December 14).
The classic Mercadillo del Gato is back for Christmas (until December 14), an exclusive pop up market with more than fifty exhibitors. It is not an ordinary flea market, since among the pieces that will be on display, we will find from vintage haute couture dresses to luxury handbags or reproductions of works by the best painters of the nineteenth century. It will be located at the Centro Cultural de los Ejércitos, in the heart of Gran Vía.
📍 Location: Gran Vía, 13 (Gran Vía)
💸 Admission: free of charge
Salesas Madrid (December 21)
Salesas Salesas is already one of the areas of Madrid where things do not stop happening. For this reason, and with Christmas just around the corner, in the streets Campoamor and Santa Teresa will be organized on December 21 [The Festival] Xmas, a street market where there will be room for fashion, art, jewelry and, of course, gastronomy.
📍 Location: Campoamor and Santa Teresa Streets (Salesas)
💸 Admission: free