The last throes of winter are here. On the horizon, the Easter vacations, the month of art that starts now and a March that, for the moment, does not give way to that longed-for earthy instinct. March plans in Madrid are perfect for absorbing the energy of the incipient spring sun that we are eagerly awaiting.
Table Of Contents
- The FRIENDS™ Experience: The One in Madrid (from March 17)
- Last month of Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes (until March 30)
- Enlightenment (all month)
- Madrid, long live bohemia! The underworld of literary life (all month)
- He who does not want to see is as blind as he who does not want to see (from March 5th)
- I Madrid Comic Fair (March 27-30)
- Concerts in March
- Frida Kahlo: Live Art Experience and Gastronomic Showcase (starting March 11)
- Urban and Vegetal (from March 1st)
- CALLE (from March 24 to April 20)
- Festival Domingo (from March 12 to 16)
- SOMBRA Festival (from 18 to 22)
- Oro Tapado ( from March 4 to 16)
- A party at the Hippodrome to celebrate St. Patricks (March 15 & 16)
- Wanted: the best cachopo in the world (March 1 to 31).
- Livianas Provincianas (March 21st and 22nd)
- The immersive experience of Tomorrowland (every day)
- The exhibitions at CentroCentro (all month long)
- Banksy Museum
- Gastronomic Days of Leganés (March 5 to 16)
- The monographic exhibition of Pol Taburet at the Hexagons Pavilion (from March 4).
- FIAS 2025 (from March 6 to April 10)
- Salón de Arte Moderno - SAM (from March 4th to 9th)
- Concerts in the Royal Chapel of the Royal Palace ( March 10, 14, 16 and 31)
- Saurios ( from March 14)
- Almond blossom at La quinta de los Molinos (anytime)
- Proust and the arts (from March 4)
- International Women's Day (March 8)
- Bee Week (March 8 to 29)
- ARCOmadrid (from March 5 to 9)
- Teatralia (from March 7 to 30)
- Ellas Crean (from March 1 to 29)
- Have a drink in the best terraces of Madrid (whenever you want)
- UVNT Art Fair (from March 6 to 9)
- Art Madrid (March 5 to 9)
- Visit the most beautiful restaurants in Madrid (anytime)
- Candlelight (various dates)
- HYBRID Art Fair (from March 6 to 9)
- JustMad (March 6 to 9)
The FRIENDS™ Experience: The One in Madrid (from March 17)
Thirty years ago, a group of five friends were having coffee at Central Perk and suddenly a sixth, dressed as a bride, appeared on the scene, shattering the minds of everyone present and the viewers. The series FRIENDS™ is iconic and now comes to Madrid with a great immersive experience with the emblematic scenarios of the series, from Monica’s apartment to the mythical cafe. But also stories from behind the scenes of the show, replicas of objects from the filming, emblematic costumes… Coffee for coffee lovers.
📍 Where to find it? Avenida del Partenón, 5 (Barajas)
💸 Tickets: from 15€.
Last month of Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes (until March 30)
He who warns is not a traitor: the exhibition that celebrates 85 years of Marvel history, will close its doors on March 30 (and there will be no extension or extension). That is: we have a whole month to visit it, revisit it and enjoy a space with surprises for comic book fans and movie freaks.
More than 200 original pieces among which are real gems, such as the first staples, the Black Panther costumes with which the designer Ruth E. Carter won an Oscar, the original cover of The Wolfman vs. The Moon Knight, painted by the Spanish illustrator Rafael López Espí… and much more.
📍 Where to find us? Avenida del Partenón, 5 (Barajas).
💸 Tickets: from 16,90 €.
Enlightenment (all month)
In a small corner of the Castellana, an experience of light and color visually narrates what Vivaldi wanted to capture with his concerts of The Four Seasons. All thanks to high-definition projections and video mapping. This is Enlightenment, the plan to let yourself go for half an hour, empty your mind, enjoy the images, relax and meditate if that’s your thing. You will find it inside the church of the German-speaking Evangelical Community – Friedenskirche.
📍 Where is it? Paseo de la Castellana, 6 (Centro)
💸 Tickets : from 13€..
Madrid, long live bohemia! The underworld of literary life (all month)
The exhibition starts from the birth of Bohemia in Paris to its development in Madrid through works of art and writers such as Sawa, Carrère or the essential Valle Inclán. A journey through the underworld of the city, the literary cafes, the variety scenes with works on loan from different museums. In the exhibition we will find from some of Goya’s Caprichos to the work of Chulos y Chulas by Gutiérrez Solana.
📍 Where to find us? Calle de Fuencarral, 78 (Tribunal).
💸 Admission: free
He who does not want to see is as blind as he who does not want to see (from March 5th)
Argentine artist Marisa Caichiolo presents at La Neomudéjar this exhibition about memory, loss and resilience through embroidery. Embroidery as a political symbol and using the Braille code to include messages that highlight “that true understanding often requires a deeper vision beyond the surface.”
📍 Where? Calle de Antonio Nebrija, S/N (Atocha)
💸 Admission: 8 €.
I Madrid Comic Fair (March 27-30)
The city premieres a new fair this March: for the first time the Comic Fair will be held at Matadero Madrid. Four days with meetings, specialized talks, activities for the whole family and, of course, non-stop comics. There will be a total of 36 booths distributed around Plaza Matadero of Madrid bookstores and specialized in the art of comics.
But in addition, spaces such as Casa del Lector or Cineteca will also join this celebration, with a special cycle of female comic authors (within the cycle “Autoras de cine”).
📍 Where? Several locations.
Concerts in March
March is full of styles like the country folk of Marc Scibilia, Pignoise celebrating 20 years of career, Peter Hook & The Light, Tokio Hotel for the emo nostalgic, the heartbroken whispers of Porridge Radio or the makinero dances of DJ Gigola. A great month, indeed. You can see our recommendations here.
📍 Where? Several locations.
Frida Kahlo: Live Art Experience and Gastronomic Showcase (starting March 11)
How to define this experience? The new exhibition of Frida Kahlo in Madrid is the conjunction of different artistic disciplines. On the one hand, the first room is an exhibition with unpublished photographs; the second room collects handwritten letters that delve into the intimate life of the Mexican artist; the third, a Live Art installation to interact with Kahlo’s art. And throughout this tour, different “hosts” (artists from different branches) accompany with live shows.
In addition, for those who wish, they can complete this immersive experience with a gastronomic menu inspired by the wedding banquet of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. It consists of five dishes, mezcal and tequila tasting, as well as live music. The days and times of the gastronomic experience are as follows:
- Tuesday – Thursday: 21:00
- Friday: 20:00 and 21:30
- Saturday: 14:00, 20:00 and 21:30
- Sunday: 14:00, 20:00
📍Where: Paseo del Pintor Rosales, 30 (University) Paseo del Pintor Rosales, 30 (University)
💸 Tickets: Live Art: 15€; Live Art + gastronomic experience: 60€..
Urban and Vegetal (from March 1st)
In a portal in the center, between Chueca and Alonso Martínez, is El Invernadero, a cozy space where from March 1, the artist Solange Contreras will present her exhibition Urbano y Vegetal, the first solo exhibition of the Chilean artist. It is about the natural conscience in the cities of the future.
📍 Where will the exhibition take place? San Lorenzo Street, 11 (Downtown)
CALLE (from March 24 to April 20)
The Festival de Intervenciones Artísticas de Lavapiés CALLE (that is, the event that turns Lavapiés into an open-air art gallery), returns by the hand of JUST MAD this month. It’s already 16 years painting walls, covering murals, creating art.
📍 Where? Lavapiés neighborhood
Festival Domingo (from March 12 to 16)
Domingo is the five-day festival dedicated to celebrating the performing arts and answering the big question: What is happening in the current art scene? To this end, different disciplines will gather in spaces such as Casa Encendida, Teatro del Barrio, Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Réplika Teatro and Casa de Campo.
In this fifth anniversary, the protagonists will be artists who have already been part of the festival, such as Paz Rojo, Nilo Gallego, Arantxa Martínez… as well as new companies and artists (Las Nenas, the performer and visual artist Itziar Okariz, the international choreographers Luísa Saraiva and Despina Sanida Crezia…).
📍 Where will it take place? Different locations
SOMBRA Festival (from 18 to 22)
The European Fantastic Film Festival will return to Madrid for its second edition, full of screenings, premieres, workshops and round tables. This event will divide the programming between the two cities that serve as headquarters (Madrid and Murcia) and, in the case of Madrid, will be installed in the Berlanga Hall. In the words of its director, Adán Latonda: “One of our objectives is to raise awareness of how this cinema is made, which is not only horror and embraces many themes”.
Among the highlights of this 2025, the debut of Kiko Prada with Historias de Halloween, the preview of the American film Curse of the Necklace or Anatema, directed by Jimina Sabadú, produced by Álex de la Iglesia and starring Leonor Watling.
📍 Where is it? Calle Andrés Mellado, 53 (Chamberí)
Oro Tapado ( from March 4 to 16)
Do you know the Torreón 2 of La Casa Encendida? It is a hidden room on the terrace of the cultural center. A diaphanous place where things happen. Things like this exhibition by Bárbara Santos, framed in the special program of ARCO 2025. The exhibition invites us to reflect on the following question: Have we ever wondered why gold is underground?
📍 Where is it? Ronda de Valencia, 2 (Lavapiés-Embajadores)
A party at the Hippodrome to celebrate St. Patricks (March 15 & 16)
Just in the middle of the month it’s time to celebrate the Irish festival of beer, leprechauns and the color green. The St. Patricks party arrives this year at the Hipódromo de la Zarzuela with food stalls, beer, live performances and DJs…
📍 Where? A-6, Km 8 (Moncloa-Aravaca).
💸 Tickets: from 15€..
Wanted: the best cachopo in the world (March 1 to 31).
25 establishments in the Community of Madrid (for the moment) are participating in the contest in which the best cachopo in Spain will be decided. This route of bars and restaurants in Madrid, will start on March 1 and you can taste the classic Asturian dish throughout the month in all of them. The price fixed for this delicacy (in any of the establishments) is between 15 and 38 € (and includes a bottle of cider or two drinks). Voting will be done telematically and only from March 1 to 20.
📍 Where to vote? Find here the complete list of participating establishments.
Livianas Provincianas (March 21st and 22nd)
The cuplé can be racy. Also, vindictive. And sometimes, many times, dramatic. Because the things of wanting, of “desquerer”, the hardness of life in the city for these two modistillas who have left the village to carve a future, can sometimes with these Livianas Provincianas. Es mi hombre is the first show of this company of cupletistas, which now returns to be performed in Madrid on the stage of the Teatro de la Zarzuela.
📍 Where is the venue? Calle de Jovellanos, 4 (Center)
The immersive experience of Tomorrowland (every day)
The Tomorrowland music festival has been creating magical worlds for more than two decades. Each edition, a theme; each festival, a different universe. These ephemeral paradises that serve as a setting for the best DJs on the planet, seem to come out of a dream. Now, an immersive virtual reality experience revives and brings together these universes in the Crystal Room of Movistar Arena.
Thanks to technology, we will be able to immerse ourselves in these digital installations, in unfathomable forests with giant plants and flowers, in elevated jungles from which we can see a horizon of impossible landscapes, in libraries that hold books and Tomorrowland concerts!
The experience lasts about 45 minutes and you will be able to interact while you learn about the keys to the festival and walk through a dream of mythical realms.
📍 Where: Movistar Arena Crystal Room. Access from Calle de la Fuente del Berro, 50 (Salamanca).
💸 Tickets: from 18,50€. Special prices for children, families and groups.
The exhibitions at CentroCentro (all month long)
They are free, are groundbreaking and open minds through art. For example, Secuencia Plano Secuencia by Almudena Lobera. In it, the artist transforms the space of the building creating a “pool” playing with perception, color, glass and sensory. A pool whose water level rises up to our neck. This is an immersive experience.
Or Tropic without tropics: Amazon, a joint exhibition with works by various artists in which the tribal, the indigenous, is no longer represented from the idealized and stereotyped perspective (typical of Western representation) to talk about environmental devastation, colonization, ecological genocide…
📍 Where? Plaza de Cibeles, 1 (Retiro)
💸 Admission: free
Banksy Museum
1500 square meters dedicated to explore the work of Banksy, the eternal anonymous urban artist who leaves his mark on walls and murals around the world, leaving his works exposed to the passing of time and human action. Banksy Museum is a journey through 170 replicas to understand the chronology of the artist’s actions in their historical context, always with a vindictive and acid look.
📍 Location: Paseo de la Esperanza 1 (Arganzuela)
💸 Price : Tickets from 14€.
Gastronomic Days of Leganés (March 5 to 16)
The Gastronomic Days of Leganés started last year with a first edition that exceeded all expectations. And this spring, they return with a very green theme: “the flavors of the garden”, with full menus with seasonal vegetables for 30 €. Among these products are protagonists such as red cabbage, leek, cauliflower or pumpkin; and among the participating restaurants, more than twenty locals.
📍 More than 20 establishments in Leganés.
The monographic exhibition of Pol Taburet at the Hexagons Pavilion (from March 4).
Oh, si os pudiera escuchar / Oh, If I Only Could Listen. A particularly beautiful title, almost musical, for an exhibition that will be displayed in such a special (and architecturally striking) location as the Hexagons Pavilion (if you don’t know what we’re talking about, take a look at this video).
The exhibition will bring together different works by the French artist, among which we will find ten paintings, as well as drawings and sketches, representing “characters in metamorphosis between the feminine, the masculine, the animal and the luminous, almost extraterrestrial”, as the author himself expresses.
📍 Where to find us? Avenida de Portugal s/n (Moncloa – Aravaca)
💸 Admission: free
FIAS 2025 (from March 6 to April 10)
The 35th edition of the International Festival of Sacred Art is almost here: different municipalities and districts of Madrid will host 41 concerts, 28 premieres and 9 commissions of the festival with the intention of bringing early music to contemporary audiences, “but where other styles such as jazz, folk, flamenco, pop or electronic music also have a place”, in the words of the organization itself. The most outstanding names are Fajardo, María Espada, Núrial Rial, Pepe Viyuela and Sara Águeda, Loenor de Lera, Sofía Comas and Sonakay…
It goes without saying that this edition will celebrate the 350th anniversary of the death of the composer Carlos Patiño, Maestro of the Royal Chapel, as well as the 300th anniversary of the death of Alessandro Scarlatti. You can access the complete program here.
📍 Where? Different locations.
💸 Admission: different prices according to show and location (from 9€)
Salón de Arte Moderno – SAM (from March 4th to 9th)
The Carlos de Amberes Foundation hosts the Salón de Arte Moderno for six days. Several Madrid galleries show their collections, including pieces by artists such as Ricardo Macarrón, Manolo Valdés, Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Jaume Plensa, Rafael Canogar, Diego Rivera, Cruz Díez, Antoni Tàpies, Marias Krahn, Eugenio Granell, Igor Mitoraj, Norman Foster, or Oswaldo Guayasamín.
📍 Where is it located? Calle de Claudio Coello, 99 (Salamanca neighborhood)
Concerts in the Royal Chapel of the Royal Palace ( March 10, 14, 16 and 31)
The Royal Palace keeps so many secrets. It has to do with the obvious: its portentous size, its history of reigns, the very rich heritage that inhabits it. But in addition, some of its rooms host cultural events, giving them a second life. This is the case of the concerts that throughout the month of March will be held in the Royal Chapel.
Take note:
- March 10, concert by Ayres Extemporae, who will perform Esbarme Dich!”, a program that runs through concepts such as sin, mercy, forgiveness… through the music of Locke, Biber and Bach.
- March 14, Ars Atlántica, with a program entitled Amor humano, amor divino, which includes works by Juan Hidalgo and other contemporary composers who succeeded him.
- March 16, Ballarte Ensemble with El gran teatro del mundo ( which is a version of Calderón de la Barca’s auto sacramental).
- March 31, Leonor de Lera, performing Arcadia, with works inspired by mythological Arcadia.
📍 Where?Real Alcázar de Madrid (Centro)
💸 Admission: from 22€.
Saurios ( from March 14)
A large outdoor exhibition will display more than a hundred replicas of dinosaurs across 4000 m2 in the area of Puerta del Angel. A didactic exhibition in which different explorers will accompany visitors to answer any questions about these magnificent creatures and explain their characteristics.
📍 Where? Puerta del Ángel (location to be confirmed)
💸 Tickets: from 12€.
Almond blossom at La quinta de los Molinos (anytime)
It is said, it is commented, that some of the almond trees at La Quinta de los Molinos are already in bloom since February. The first flower was born, exactly, on the 24th, as communicated by the official account of X del Barrio Salvador, which monitors the flowering daily.
📍 Where? Calle de Alcalá, 257 (El Salvador District)
Proust and the arts (from March 4)
How did the arts influence the works of Marcel Proust? The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum answers. It does so with an exhibition that brings together the landscape, artistic and monumental environments that surrounded and shaped Proust’ s environment, trying to highlight this link with his life and work. Historical phenomena and milestones such as the appearance of electricity, cars, cafés, shows… were an indispensable part of the creation of one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.
📍 Where to go? Paseo del Prado, 8 (Downtown)
💸 Tickets: 14€.
International Women’s Day (March 8)
The March 8 feminist demonstration will return to the streets of Madrid this year. Still to be defined the details (time and route) by the 8M Commission, we already know the slogan under which UN Women (the UN for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women) will coordinate the International Women’s Day 2025: “For women and girls in all their diversity: rights, equality and empowerment”, for an inclusive feminism that leaves no one behind.
📍Where to go? Tour to be confirmed
Bee Week (March 8 to 29)
Madrid, in spring, blooms with festivals. Even festivals that sprout with the arrival of the warm weather. This is the case of Bee Week, which returns with a new edition in its format for venues (Sala BUT, La Riviera or El Sol, among others). Bee Week will bring together groups like Alex Wall, Grande Amore, Shego, Tycho, Yoly Saa, Amparanoia and artists of the guild, Costa, Santero y los Muchachos, 84 and will also include the celebration of La fiesta demoscópica de Mondosonoro, and will continue with its environmental work of planting trees and creating beehives.
📍 Where? Different venues
💸 Tickets: from 25€.
ARCOmadrid (from March 5 to 9)
The great International Contemporary Art Fair of Spain returns for its 44th edition with a focus on the Amazon. The famous fair keeps the usual programs (like the General Program, with selected galleries; the Opening section, with new galleries under seven years old; ArtsLibris, about publishing art and collecting…). A fair that in its last edition was visited by 95,000 people with representation of more than 1,300 artists, 800 collectors, 206 galleries and 36 countries.
📍 Where? IFEMA. Avenida del Partenón 5 (Barajas district)
💸 Tickets: from 65€.
Teatralia (from March 7 to 30)
More than three weeks celebrating theater in the capital. Teatralia is the International Festival of Performing Arts for all audiences of the Community of Madrid and in this 29th edition will host theater, music, puppetry, magic, circus, projections and contemporary dance. You can access the complete program here.
📍Where? Several locations
Ellas Crean (from March 1 to 29)
Ellas Crean celebrates its 21st anniversary in this edition of 2025. More than two decades of music, dance, poetry, meetings, theater, cinema, performance, exhibitions… With the aim of “making visible the work of artists and creators in the world of culture”, this festival is made up of a solid network of the associative movement of women in culture as well as institutional support. The 2025 program is not yet available (we will keep you informed).
📍Where? Several locations
Have a drink in the best terraces of Madrid (whenever you want)
We leave the cold days behind and the sun is coming, and for any Madrilenian the good weather is synonymous with terraces. From Madrid Secreto we have prepared this list of the 26 terraces that you must know to spend unforgettable evenings.
📍Where? Several locations
UVNT Art Fair (from March 6 to 9)
For the second consecutive year, Matadero will host the ninth edition of the International Fair of New Contemporary Art UVNT Art Fair. This year, more than 40 galleries will be installed in Matadero in an ephemeral way with a novelty: ceramics will play a major role. In addition, in the usual General Program, half of the galleries will be of international origin and a new section, FOCO LATAM, with nine projects by Latin American galleries.
📍Where? Plaza de Legazpi, 8 (Arganzuela)
Art Madrid (March 5 to 9)
Art Madrid returns for its 20th edition, bringing together more than 40 national and international galleries. A unique artistic showcase that, under the Crystal Gallery of the Cibeles Palace, explores the latest trends in painting, sculpture, graphic work, photography, video art and art installations.
📍Where to find us? Calle de Montalbán, 1 (Cibeles)
Visit the most beautiful restaurants in Madrid (anytime)
Architects and designers work in restaurants that after decades will be studied as a projection of a contemporary feeling, as a fashionable place among the people of the time or as future nostalgia dumps. Madrid, with thousands of restaurants (at least 50 of them must be tried before you die), has a vast gastronomic offer that is at least remarkable. But as the experience is not only to live it but also to tell it through images, there are restaurants that fall in love for its beauty and justify the visit only as a space of visual or functional delight. Here is the list.
📍Where? Several locations
Candlelight (various dates)
Candlelight is the cycle of concerts that expands the music to the most unlikely corners of Madrid and in a magical setting, surrounded by candles. Imagine Dragons, an evening dedicated to the best of flamenco (with tributes to Camarón, Morente or Lola Flores), a special magical soundtracks or a Rings and Dragons… There are as many Candlelight as candles in a concert; there are as many musical styles as tastes in your Spotify.
📍 Where to go? Different locations.
💸 Tickets: from 19€
HYBRID Art Fair (from March 6 to 9)
The IX edition of HYBRID arrives at the Hotel Petit Palace Santa Barbara. This contemporary art fair is located in the hotel rooms, with art installations in each of the rooms, performances and different stalls and stands with works by artists along the corridors. As every year, independent proposals, both local and international, are shown here, and it is considered one of the great springboards for emerging artists in the city.
📍 Where to go? Plaza de Santa Bárbara 10 (Alonso Martínez)
JustMad (March 6 to 9)
The sixteenth edition of JUSTMAD returns to put on the map the new art galleries and emerging artists who will be talking about in the coming years. This fair works as a catalyst for these new trends and creators, giving them a platform from which to be visible and vindicate the importance of the role of art.
📍 Where to go? Palacio de Neptuno: Calle de Cervantes, 42 (Jerónimos)