The hardest part of winter is over, Easter vacations are on the horizon, art month is late this 2025 kicking off spring. And with all this, the earthy instinct comes out of our pores. March plans in Madrid are perfect for soaking up the energy of the incipient spring sun.
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 ( until March 16)
- Concerts in March
- The search for the best cachopo in the world (March 1-31)
- Livianas Provincianas (March 21st and 22nd)
- Exhibitions at CentroCentro (all month)
- The monographic exhibition of Pol Taburet at the Hexagons Pavilion (from March 4).
- Concerts in the Royal Chapel of the Royal Palace ( March 10, 14, 16 and 31)
- Saurios ( from March 14)
- A surrealist carnival (March 1st)
- 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)
- Carnival (March 1 to 5)
- UVNT Art Fair (March 6 to 9)
- Art Madrid (March 5 to 9)
- 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 breaking the schemes of all present and 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 ( until March 16)
In a little 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€..
Concerts in March
The month kicks off with the Cariño (those “three friends doing pop and movidas”), movidas which we love and which kick off the month of March at La Riviera. They are followed by 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.
The search for the best cachopo in the world (March 1-31)
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)
Exhibitions at CentroCentro (all month)
They are free, 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
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 Portuga l s/n (Moncloa – Aravaca)
💸 Admission: free
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€.
A surrealist carnival (March 1st)
One of our favorite events of the year, the most subversive carnival in the capital: here we come to dance, to dream and to wish “to subvert reality”. At this masked ball at the CBA, anything is possible. This 2025, in which the circle presents an exhibition dedicated to the surrealist Max Ernst as well as a series of conferences for the centenary of Breton’s surrealist manifesto, the party will be a surrealist passage inspired by Buñuel, Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo or the recently deceased David Lynch. A tribute to the oneiric and to that which underlies and beats permanently even surviving everyday life.
📍 Where to find us? Calle de Alcalá, 42 (Centro)
💸 Tickets: 45€.
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 (Centro)
💸 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 is back 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
Carnival (March 1 to 5)
Parades, musical performances, activities… Carnival will kick off this 2025 with the traditional proclamation from the balcony of the Casa de la Villa (name of the town crier still to be confirmed) and will end with the no less traditional Burial of the Sardine on Ash Wednesday. This begins in the Plaza de San Antonio de la Florida, crosses the Manzanares and passes through Doctor Casal and the underpass of the M30 until the “final” burial in the Fuente de los Pajaritos in the Plaza de las Moreras in the Casa de Campo.
📍Where? Several locations
UVNT Art Fair (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)
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)