When you go up to one of the best rooftops in Madrid it is very difficult not to think: “From Madrid to Heaven” yes, we have heard it a thousand times. But when a local expression becomes an unofficial city slogan, it’s because you have to keep using it.
The rooftops are the latest craze in Madrid leisure, and from our foray into Madrid’s rooftops we don’t question this at all. Up here are the most amazing views of Madrid. Some overlook the Gran Vía, others are so high that you can see the Casa de Campo and some even have the privilege of being in iconic downtown buildings.
And if on top of seeing the capital from the highest point they serve you a drink or a good tapa…. That means that Madrid’s heaven is on earth.
1. Rooftop terrace of the Hard Rock Hotel Madrid
The Hard Rock Café vibrates for the second time -after closing its former space in Plaza Colón in 2020- with the capital and adds a rooftop bar to its proposal. RT60, as the terrace of Hard Rock Hotel Madrid is called, is dyed red to accompany the sunsets and create an appetizing atmosphere overlooking the Reina Sofia Museum.
🌇 F loor 8
Ronda de Atocha, 17 (Atocha)
2. Canopy by Hilton – Z Plant
With the best views of the Picasso Tower canopy by Hilton has one of the most appealing rooftops in Madrid, which in this case is not located on the top floor. Very close to the Castellana is this hotel, which is committed to being part of the city’s cultural agenda and has also managed to integrate aspects of the capital into its essence, such as, for example, with its brunch of violets served on Sundays on the Z floor.
🌇 Z Plant
Plaza de Carlos Trías Bertrán, 4 (Azca)
3. UMusic Hotel
Located above the Albéniz Theater and overlooking the Puerta del Sol, the UMusic Hotel’s rooftop bar has a name of its own: High Note. Open until one o’clock at night, here you can watch the sunset with a succulent cocktail in your hand, or with the whole bottle if you dare. If you want to accompany it with something to eat, their traditional sushi with calamari on top will only enhance the experience.
🌇 Floor 7
Calle de la Paz, 11 (downtown)
4. Iberostar Las Letras Gran Vía
Ático 11 is a space full of Verde located on the 7th floor of the hotel. It has an avant-garde decoration and in it you can taste, in an informal atmosphere, the best tapas and a wide variety of vermouths, cocktails and drinks while contemplating the spectacular view offered by the main artery of the city. Madrid hides many wonderful secrets, and undoubtedly one of them is in the sky of Gran Vía.
🌇 F loor 7
Gran Vía Street, 11 (downtown)
5. Osadía Lounge & Sky Bar
Two concepts converge in Osadía: a sky bar and a Japanese restaurant. Osadía Nikkei 14 combines the most characteristic flavors of Japan and Peru, hence its name refers to this culinary trend. In their menu you can find both a Norwegian salmon tiradito with passion fruit tiger’s milk and a free-range chicken yakitori. A from 18h the other space of this rooftop changes and becomes a cocktail bar with DJ, special sessions and even pool parties.
🌇 7th floor
Gran Vía, 14 (downtown)
6. Only You Hotel Atocha
Sép7ima is the acclimatized terrace open all year round at Only You Hotel Atocha. It has become one of the fetish terraces of the capital. And there is no shortage of reasons. In addition to atypical views, and a menu that is perfect for sharing and focused on the product, there is also an original cocktail menu at the sky bar and good music to complete the experience.
🌇 F loor 7
Paseo de la Infanta Isabel, 13
7. 11 Knots Terrace Nordés
The San Antón Market hides a surprise on its third floor. This is the location of the 11 Nudos Terraza Nordés restaurant and the market’s large 360 m2 terrace overlooking the Chueca neighborhood.
In this gastronomic space you can savor a cuisine composed of national and international recipes with the best of the sea and the land, dishes that show clear Atlantic influences and raw materials of the highest quality. And to top it all off, the classic signature cocktails.
🌇 F loor 3
Calle de Augusto Figueroa, 24, 3rd floor (Chueca)
8. Hotel Indigo Sky Lounge
Without going too far from the Gran Vía area, the Sky Lounge of the Hotel Índigo has one of the most sought-after sunsets in the capital. This terrace, decorated by the architect Teresa Sapei, offers a complete plan to live the dolce vita accompanied by Apperol Spritz and Italian cold cuts.
🌇 F loor 12
Calle de Silva, 6 (downtown)
9. Hotel Emperador
In the middle of Gran Via is the largest pool of the terraces of Madrid, with 14 meters long by six meters wide. It is at the Emperador Hotel, located at number 53 of the mythical avenue, which has a beach club of 1,000 square meters. A record-breaking rooftop where celebrities such as Ava Gardner, Hemingway or Sophia Loren have passed through. Its views are equally privileged. It is a terrace with a 360º panoramic view of the city.
🌇 F loor 10
Gran Vía, 53 (downtown)
10. Generator Hotel
is there another rooftop overlooking Gran Via? Of course. The one at the Generator Hotel is little less than a beach club with beach umbrellas, Jacuzzis and hammocks. The experience can only get better with a cocktail in hand and here they prepare them very well, you can also snack in their food trucks on the heights.
🌇 F loor 5
Calle de Silva, 1 (downtown)
11. Ella Sky Bar
Having a vermouth at Ella Sky Bar Madrid is to recover a very traditional tradition with the added bonus of being on the rooftop of one of the most iconic buildings on Gran Vía. Enjoying an aperitif while contemplating one of the best views of the capital from one of the highest points of the iconic street, facing the Royal Palace and the five towers, a perfect plan for the weekend.
🌇 F loor 10
Gran Vía, 42 (downtown)
12. Gingko Sky Bar
Ginkgo Restaurant & Sky Bar fuses Asian and Spanish cuisine, with international touches, in the three zones that separate its multidisciplinary space: tapas bar area, glazed interior restaurant and heated terrace with views. It has made it to the list of the best rooftops in Madrid thanks to immersive shows such as Gingko Jet Drunk where live music, dancing and cocktails complete the privileged views.
🌇 F loor 12
Plaza de España, 3 (downtown)
13. Sweden House
Located in the centrally located NH Collection Madrid Suecia, the terrace of Casa Suecia is divided into two levels and has almost total views of the city. Among its varied offer is a tempting plan at high altitudes: the BBQ Brunch. Casa Suecia has designed a late breakfast, or early lunch the heat of the barbecue flames and the sea of Madrid’s rooftops.
🌇 F loor 11
Calle del Marqués de Casa Riera, 4 (downtown)
14. La Terraza de La Casa – Café Bar
The Terrace is the ultimate extra for a space as complete as La Casa Encendida. Its hours are the same as those of the cultural space: from 10 am to 10 pm, from Tuesday to Sunday. This is a haven of asphalt in the middle of the Valencia ring road. A place where you can have a drink surrounded by Verde and with views to Lavapiés y Arganzuela..
🌇 F loor 3
Ronda de Valencia, 2 (Lavapiés)
15. Torcuato
Torcuato triumphs on Instagram and in real life. On the fourth floor of the ABC Serrano shopping center is this space designed by interior designer Pepe Leal, which has an open-air rooftop terrace and indoor spaces. In its menu, as eclectic as its decoration, you will find Japanese touches, such as nigiris; Spanish cuisine classics such as gazpacho and also lamb tahine and cous cous.
🌇 F loor 4
Calle de Serrano, 61 (Salmanca neighborhood)
16. Dani Brasserie at the Four Seasons Hotel Madrid
The recipes of the chef Dani García complete the rooftop experience on the seventh floor of the Four Seasons Hotel Madrid. Dani Brasserie presents a new menu each season that is available both in the restaurant’s dining room and on the terrace. The Andalusian chef starts from his particular Snack bar, with dishes that are offered during uninterrupted hours, such as natural oysters, Iberian ham croquettes, guacamole or smoked salmon prepared at the table, prawns in the style of the prawns Robuchon.
🌇 F loor 7
Seville Street, 3 (downtown)
17. 360º Rooftop Bar
Located on the 27th floor, the terrace of the Riu Plaza España is called Rooftop Bar 360º. This rooftop, in the middle of plaza de España stalls/Stands does not disappoint, offering unparalleled 360-degree unobstructed views of the capital.
And if vertigo is not a problem, you can cross from one side of the terrace to the other by the glass walkway, and even take the most sought-after photo of the city on its platform suspended in the air.
🌇 Plant 27
Gran Vía, 84 (downtown)
18. The rooftop of the Círculo
A classic of Madrid’s rooftops and one of the first to be transformed into a bar and hot spot in the city. Located on the top floor of the Círculo de Bellas Artes, one of the most important private cultural centers in Europe, it occupies an absolutely privileged enclave due to its location, the beauty of the building and its views. In addition, they have won a REPSOL GUIDE SOLETE in the category Chiringuitos and terraces.
🌇 F loor 7
Marqués de Casa Riera Street, 2 (downtown)
19. The Picalagartos
Among the numerous rooftops that vie for the best views of Gran Vía picalagartos has an advantage. In a building with a marked literary and bohemian vocation, which has inspired the name of the space –refers to the tavern of the same name in the play Luces de Bohemia by Valle-Inclán. Picalagartos is located in what is known as Gran Vía 21, an architectural jewel designed by architects Julio Martínez Zapata and José López Sallaberry in the neo-baroque style that opened its doors in 1918.
🌇 Floor 8
Gran Vía Street, 21 (downtown)
20. Irreverent
Irreverente Madrid is one of the meeting points of the capital, with different atmospheres and a rooftop, with a garland of light bulbs and vines included, where you can enjoy the Madrid “of cats” in the middle of the city chamberí neighborhood.
🌇 6th Floor
Sagasta Street, 22 (Justice)
21. Diana’s Garden
The Jardín de Diana is one more of the rooftops of Gran Vía that occupy the capital’s high-rise leisure activities. Although this tenth floor of the Hyatt Centric hotel has a special guardian: the Diana the Huntress that accompanies the small dome of this building and gives its name to the restaurant. Its menu changes seasonally, but its cocktails are perennial and it has almost more variety than food dishes.
🌇 F loor 10
Gran Vía Street, 31 (downtown)
22. Zielou
Chef Juan Sánchez is behind the kitchen of Zielou, the gastronomic space located in the attic of Chamartín station. The croquettes the Cecina de Cecina is one of the best in Madrid, so the visit is not only worth it for the views of the northern part of the capital, but also for the exquisiteness of this star dish of Spanish gastronomy.
🌇 2nd Floor
Estación de Chamartín, s/n, Penthouse Floor (Castilla)
23. Doñaluz
Among the rooftops in Madrid there is also room for a semi-covered terrace the Doñaluz, which also has heating points in case the temperature drops. It is perfect to accompany the tapas with Colombian influences of good drink in a special appointment.
🌇 6th Floor
Calle de la Montera, 10 (downtown)
24. The Social Hub
The Social Hub is a hotel designed for students and with an intense cultural commitment that also has a rooftop distributed on three levels, each one closer to the privileged views of the Royal Palace and the greenery of Campo del Moro. Although the pool area of this Madrid rooftop is only for hotel guests, the restaurant and many of the activities are designed for the general public.
From up here, among works of art, color, the pool, a bar with the best mixology… every Thursday one of the activities open to everyone is held: the now famous afterwork to celebrate the arrival of the weekend with live DJ sessions, cocktails and a gastronomic menu prepared to share.
🌇 4th Floor
Cuesta de San Vicente, 28 (Principe Pio)
25. Oroya
In the ranking, Madrid’s rooftop Oroya, at The Madrid Edition hotel (Plaza de Celenque, 2), is the fourth best in Europe, according to the Big 7 Travel ranking. The restaurant and pisco bar is located on the fourth floor of the hotel, and this ranking highlights that “the terrace has a cozy fireplace, a vine-covered pergola and an elegant teak bar, with spectacular views of the city”. Probably one of the most romantic locations in Madrid in the heights.
🌇 4th Floor
Celenque Square, 2 (downtown)