Amazing things to do in Madrid in September

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September is already on the horizon even though the summer heat does not give truce or yield to the autumn breeze for which there are still a couple of months left. But the plans for this September 2025 in Madrid will make it not so sad to say goodbye to the vacations, promise! While summer cinemas are turning off their screens, street markets and festivals will once again be the protagonists of the afternoons and evenings in the city. Are you ready?

Machu Picchu: Journey to the Lost City (from September 25)

Machu Picchu: Journey to the Lost City is an immersive virtual reality experience that allows you to digitally tour the ancient Inca citadel as if you were there. With 4D technology, detailed reconstructions made with drones and photogrammetry, we can move freely in an environment shared with other users while exploring key landmarks of the Inca civilization.

📍 Location: Calle de Raimundo Fernández Villaverde, 57 (Tetuán – Nuevos Ministerios)
Tickets: starting at 13€.

L.E.V Matadero (from September 18 to 21)

The experimental and advanced sounds festival returns to Matadero: the seventh edition of L.E.V. Matadero (the Festival of Visual Electronics and Extended Realities) will be held from September 18 to 21. The organization announces the “most current proposals in the field of sound, audiovisual and digital experimentation”. The different spaces of Matadero will be intervened by the most innovative artists of the national and international scene, with concerts, installations, exhibitions…

Among the big names of this edition are Lorenzo Senni, Myriam Bleau with Nien Tzu Weng, the New York studio Team Rolfes and the SPIME.IM collective. In addition to all this, there will be an augmented reality experience (dedicated to the little ones at home) that will be located in Nave Una: Fortune Teller, by Julie Stephen Chheng. As well as audiovisual installations by Theo Triantafyllidis or LP Rondeau, among many more activities.

📍 Where to go? Plaza Legazpi, 8 (Arganzuela)

Leica. A Century of Photography (from September 10)

Leica celebrates its 100th anniversary with this free exhibition. Leica cameras are not only an instrument for art (or the mere fact of capturing moments) but also a way of photographing and looking at the world. The first camera was born in 1925, the Leica 1. And with it, a new wave and generation of photographers who captured the most iconic images of the twentieth century between war reports, street or everyday scenes… This exhibition will bring together 170 photographs as well as a selection of cameras and documents that are the history of world photography.

Names such as Steve McCurry, Oskar Barnack, Ernst Leitz, Elliott Erwitt, Ramón Masats, Andrea Hoyer, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Barbara Klemm, Bruce Davidson, Joel Meyerowitz, in addition to a selection of twenty-eight Spanish photographers, including César Lucas, Manolo Laguillo, Cristóbal Hara and Alberto García-Alix, among others.

Where: Fernán Gómez. Centro Cultural de la Villa in Plaza de Colón 4 (Salamanca neighborhood).

Back to the Book (from September 12 to 14)

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The Independent Festival of Literature and Publishing will be held at the Casa del Lector de Matadero and will feature Mariana Enríquez, Carolina Yuste, Marta Sanz, Sabina Urraca, Blanca Lacasa, Diana Aller… Admission is free (but not for the workshops) and in addition to signings, talks, music, coffee and beer, there will be stands with books for sale from different publishers participating in the festival.

📍 Where to go? Plaza Legazpi, 8 (Arganzuela)

Dique, Nova Galega de Danza (September 27th and 28th)

Dance to reconstruct memory and to sustain it in time; dance as a weapon against oblivion. The company Nova Galega de Danza, under the stage direction of Marta Pazos, presents this piece that vindicates the history of the stevedores, more than 200 women who excavated 245,000 cubic meters of earth and stones, transporting them on their heads to build the Dique de la Campana de Ferrol.

Where? Calle del Conde Duque, 11 (Conde Duque)
Tickets: from 20€.

14 million eyes. Collection, photography, public (from September 24)

The Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo de Móstoles, known by regulars as CA2M, is an incessant generator of culture, of conversation, of refuge for the neighbors of Móstoles in the heat of works of art and new creators. Now, an exhibition to be held at the Canal de Isabel II Hall will retrace the history of the Mostoleña collection through 175 photographs, 15 photobooks and archival material. What will we find? Works by Ramón Masats, Alberto García-Alix, Cristina García Rodero, Javier Vallhonrat, Carmela García, Bleda y Rosa and Tanit Plana, among others. A tribute to their exhibition work.

Where? Calle del Conde Duque, 11 (Conde Duque)
Tickets: from 20€.

Opening Madrid Gallery Weekend (from September 11 to 14)

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The Madrid Art Galleries Association celebrates a weekend of activities and open-door exhibitions (as has been the tradition since 2009). It is a way to make themselves known, to show the creations of new artists but also to make community with a full program of events and guided tours through buildings, iconic museums and the streets and squares of Madrid. More than fifty galleries will participate in this party for lovers of Contemporary Art.

Where? Several art galleries from all over the city.

DroneArt Show (September 25, 26 and 27)

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Imagine attending a summer (almost autumnal) outdoor classical music concert. A string quartet, surrounded by more than 20,000 candles, performs a program featuring the scores of Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky and Debussy. And in this magical scene, illuminated by the flickering glow of the candles and the stars of the night, hundreds of drones appear, performing a dance synchronized with the music and color, forming images such as flowers, swans or birds. This has a name: it is called DroneArt Show and it will take place in Madrid again this September for three nights at the Zarzuela Hippodrome.

📍 Location: Avenida del Padre Huidobro, S/N, A6 KM 8 (Moncloa – Aravaca)
💸Tickets: from 29€.

Jurassic World: The Experience (all month)

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Roaring, glowing eyes surrounding a tropical scene, electrified fences behind which hide creatures of unbelievable dimensions? Jurassic World: The Experience is just that: experience the island of Jurassic World without leaving the center of Madrid. For those nostalgic of the saga, a gift to our childhood memories; for the little ones, an amazing and hallucinating world, where they will learn everything about this Jurassic world.

📍 Location: Paseo de las Delicias, 61 (Delicias, Arganzuela).
Tickets: from 22€.

Ibiza Paradise (from September 12)

This September there are also premieres of musicals on Gran Vía. Specifically Ibiza paradise the dinner show musical produced by Nacho Cano that reconstructs the countercultural hippie spirit of the 70s in Ibiza through music and a contemporary stage language.

Performed in English with Spanish subtitles, the show combines live music, dance and projections to tell a story of escape, search and transformation. The experience travels through the soundtrack and the author’s gastronomic proposal the different musical stages that have marked several generations, always inspired by the hippie utopia that has been lived since the 60’s on the island of Ibiza.

📍Where to go? Callao Cinemas (Callao)
Tickets: from 25€.

Bresh at Fabrik (September 27)

The great viral Argentine party returns to Area 19 of FABRIK, the largest area of the hall. The BRESH returns with all its deployment: pink as the flagship color, cowgirl hats and an atmosphere in which the hits, joy and confetti rule. Backstage, as always, there are faces like Duki and Tini, so what can we expect? Another XXL night that will mark September in Madrid.

📍 Location: FABRIK, Av. de la Industria, 82 (Humanes)
Tickets: fourth leg from 22€.

Picasso in the work of Mingote (from September 10)

We must decentralize art, culture, everything! Decentralize! The Community of Madrid boasts charming villages that in addition to an idyllic setting for the Sunday walker, live from Monday to Saturday, organize exhibitions and events throughout the year. In Buitrago de Lozoya, from September 10, will open the exhibition that analyzes the figure of Mingote through the influence of Picasso.

📍 Location: Municipal Exhibition Hall of Buitrago del Lozoya, at 19, Tahona Street.

Alfredo Alcain. A retrospective (from September 10)

More than 150 works portray the life and artistic career of Madrid-born Alfredo Alcain, defined by Mariano Navarro (curator of the exhibition) as “one of the most singular and at the same time coherent figures of contemporary Spanish art”.

Where? 31 Alcala St. (Downtown)

New Imaginaries ( from September 10th)

The exhibition shows the point at which artistic languages and cinematographic practices enter into communion. Historically, cinema (which is a language in itself) has made use of the artistic avant-garde, of experimentation with the image… to reinvent itself over and over again. The exhibition, through the works of filmmakers such as Oliver Laxe, Isaki Lacuesta, Laida Lertxundi, Susana de Sousa Dias, Lois Patiño and Helena Girón and Samuel M. Delgado, plays with this conjunction with multi-screens, with simultaneous projections, adapting the audiovisual pieces to the space as if it were a site-specific installation.

Where: Sala de Bóvedas of the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Condeduque (Centro).

Projector (from September 10 to 21)

Proyector is a platform that aims to value and bring to the public the new audiovisual languages, the most experimental and current proposals of the international scene. Each year, through PROYECTOR Festival, they decipher in different cultural spaces of the city a whole new artistic language. Thus, in the 2025 edition, more than twenty spaces in Madrid will exhibit some 100 pieces of expanded cinema, performance, video art, site-specific, interactive pieces… In addition to the program curated by the platform itself, also created in this environment are proposals from galleries and museums that make up the OFF Tour. Find the full program here.

📍Where? Several places in the city

Poet (lost) in New York ( starting September 11)

A new season kicks off at the Jardiel Poncela Hall of the Fernán Gómez. Centro Cultural de la Villa. It does so with a reinterpretation of the classic by Federico García Lorca, those intimate letters turned into a collection of poems that he wrote from the Big Apple.

Where? Fernán Gómez. Centro Cultural de la Villa in Plaza de Colón 4 (Salamanca neighborhood).

Fiebre Photobook Fest (from September 26th to 28th)

La Casa Encendida will host from September 26 to 28 this festival dedicated to photobooks. In its twelfth edition, creators, professionals, students… (in total, 66 editorial proposals) will gather with a common goal: collecting photobooks. In addition, a wide variety of free activities will be part of this visual weekend, such as experimental and participatory workshops for all ages and profiles.

Where to go? Ronda de Valencia, 2 (Embajadores)

Festival of Ideas (September 18 to 21)

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Conversations, walks, music… The Festival of Ideas will come to different locations in Madrid, streets and squares to address questions that may never have answers. And it doesn’t matter. In addition, there will be philosophical walks through places such as the Carabanchel Jail or the heart of the city, which will become a real labyrinth of ideas for four days.

Where? Thyssen Museum, Goethe Institut, Telefónica Foundation, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Prado Museum, Carabanchel Prison…

Interior Matter, by Jaume Plensa (until September 7th)

Last days of the monographic exhibition that brings together fifteen sculptural works by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa. You will find it at Espacio Fundación Telefónica.

Where? Espacio Fundación Telefónica (Gran Vía)

Madrid Live Experience (from September 24th to 30th)

A tremendous festival is coming to leave behind the summer homesickness. Good thing there’s Madrid Live Experience to restore our faith in the city. This year, in this peculiar cycle of concerts at the Gran Teatro CaixaBank Príncipe Pío, tremendous titans of national and international music:

• Crystal Fighters (September 24)
• Pedro Guerra & Javier Ruibal (September 25)
• Las Migas (September 26)
• Pica Pica (September 27)
• Fetén Fetén (September 28)
• Marlon (September 28)
• Coque Malla (September 29)
• Azabache’ by Kiki Morente, with Estrella and Soleá Morente (September 30)

Where? Cuesta de San Vicente, 44 (Moncloa)
Tickets: Tickets from 23 euros

Cleopatra, the immersive exhibition (from September 12)

A new 4D sensory exhibition arrives at the city’s Immersive Experience Center, MAD (Madrid Artes Digitales). This time, the exhibition will revolve around the figure of Cleopatra, the last great queen of Ancient Egypt. It will feature a virtual reality experience, immersive projections, stage recreations… And the novelty that will start from September 12 in this creative space: holographic technology.

Where: Matadero in Plaza de Legazpi, 8 (Arganzuela)
Tickets: from 23 euros

Suma Flamenca Joven (from September 25 to 28)

The fifth edition of Suma Flamenca Joven arrives this September with an unprecedented artistic display: soloists under 30 years old who will defend “the values of singing, dancing, concert flamenco guitar” (as indicated by the Community of Madrid) in the Sala Verde of the Teatros del Canal. Each day of the festival will feature a concert guitarist, a cantaor or cantaora (flamenco singer) and a bailaor or bailaora (flamenco dancer). This year’s participants include Reyes Carrasco, David Fernández, Lole de los Reyes, Irene Morales, Esperanza Garrido, Andjela Misic…

Where: Sala Verde of Teatros del Canal in Cea Bermúdez, 1 (Chamberí)
Tickets: from 9€.

El Orgullo de quererte (September 11, 12, 13, 18, 19 and 20)

This zarzuela (with music by Javier Carmena) follows the adventures of Tadeo, a young man who arrives in Madrid “with his suitcase full of illusion” to live his first Pride. When he arrives in the city, three women “adopt him” as one of the clan and guide him through what will become the great adventure of his life.

Where: Sala Roja Concha Velasco, at the Teatros del Canal in Cea Bermúdez Street, 1 (Chamberí)
Tickets: from 9 euros

Madrid Premier Padel P1 (from September 2 to 7)

A top-level tournament with the great stars of world padel. This is how September starts in Madrid, with the best competition at the Movistar Arena (venue of the fourth edition of the tournament). We will be able to see local talents like Ale Galán, Coki Nieto, Claudia Fernández, Martita Ortega or Ale Salazar, among others.

Where will the tournament take place? Avenida de Felipe II, s/n (Velázquez)
Tickets: from 20€.

The Jazz Room: A Journey to the Heart of New Orleans (September 7)

The iconic Café Berlin reopens as The Jazz Room on September 7. Upon entering this building, we will travel (space-time-wise) to any 1920s nightclub in old New Orleans. Musicians are constantly playing tunes by Spencer Williams, Irving Mills or Louis Armstrong (among others). Cocktails sprout and feet move on their own. Ready to party?

📍 Location: Café Berlín, in calle de la Costanilla de los Ángeles, 20 (Callao)
Tickets: from 29€.

The markets are back (various dates)

When the heat starts to subside and it’s time to put on a jacket, Madrid’s flea markets will be there waiting for the public to return: Salesas Village – The Festival (the street market between Campoamor and Santa Teresa streets) to be held on September 6; the Mercado de las Ranas, on Huertas street; the Mercado Municipal de Productores de Planetario, first and third Sunday of September; or the Mercado de Motores ( September 13 and 14).

📍 Where? Several locations.

Hotel Tapa Tour: “with the tapa as a flag” (from September 22nd)

A tour from hotel restaurant to hotel restaurant looking for and tasting the best tapas in the city. Hotel Tapa Tour celebrates 10 years in Madrid establishing itself as a great gastronomic festival and an excuse to enter those hotels that populate Madrid, bringing the accommodations closer to the neighbors. This fall, it will be extended for 15 days by 25 hotels in 6 routes and with a total of 83 different proposals for tapas and pairings.

📍Where? Several locations

The Jury Experience: An Immersive Trial – Case 2: Murder (September 4)

A crime has been committed. And you, dear viewer, will have to decide who is guilty in this interactive trial. That’s it, it’s your turn: you are part of the jury in this courtroom drama and it will be up to you to analyze the testimony, examine the evidence and weigh each argument. There is a love triangle, there is a victim and the decision of whether the accused is innocent or guilty will be up to the spectators.

📍 Location:Espacio Madriz at 4 Cabello Lapiedra Street (Puerta del Ángel).
Tickets: from 25€.

The theater of the world, by Calderón de la Barca (from September 18 to 21)

The Teatros del Canal are pure avant-garde but, also, vindication and reinterpretation of the classics of always. Like this auto sacramental by Calderón de la Barca, adapted by Antonio Castillo Algarra and Ignacio Rodulfo Hazen and directed by the former. In addition to a nod to the classics from the present, it is also a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the company For the Fun of It.

Where: Sala Verde of Teatros del Canal in Cea Bermúdez street, 1 (Chamberí)
Tickets: from 9€.

The best concerts of the month (different dates)

Madrid is music. The festival season seems to be slowly easing, while the concert halls begin to program that wonderful transition to autumn: a “back to school” of the kind we like: from musical show to recital. September is the time when artists from all over the world start their tours. Thus, we will find the hip hop of Nanpa Básico, the avant-garde of Rusowsky, the techno of HVOB, a comeback to the dosmileros sounds of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah or the punk of C.O.F.F.F.I.N.

Where: Various locations

PNR Madrid Film Festival (from September 15 to 21)

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A week to highlight all those non-commercial productions that do not reach the big theaters, a unique opportunity to imbibe new emerging creators, understand the current film trends and show that the creation born in the margins keeps great works of art. Several theaters in the city will show these hidden gems in order to make them known, in addition to meetings to listen to these new voices (actors, directors…) of the world independent circuit.

Where? Several locations

Madrid Cocktail Week (September 26 to October 5)

Back to school, that tedious return to routine, is broken every September in the city with Madrid Cocktail Week, which is nothing more than an excuse to meet the best bartenders and cocktail shakers in the city from bar to hotel, hotel to bar. The best bars in the capital will prepare to shake the cocktail shaker and present the best prepared classic cocktails or the most innovative new ones. More than 500 cocktails will be prepared in the best cocktail bars in Madrid with workshops, experiences, gastronomy… Prepare your agendas.

Where? Several locations

Candlelight: concerts by candlelight

The best of Ennio Morricone, a tribute to Adele, Vivaldi‘s Four Seasons, a special flamenco tribute to Morente, Lola Flores or Camarón… the list is endless. Candlelight are candlelight concerts that reinterpret the great classics (and modern) in special locations in the city of Madrid. In September, these intimate and close musical shows will take place at the Círculo de Bellas Artes, the Ateneo, the Basílica Pontificia de San Miguel, the Palacio de los Duques de Santoña… among other locations.

📍 Location: different locations
Tickets: from 15€.

Edward Weston (from September 18)

Editorial credit: Edward Weston / Fundación MAPFRE
A retrospective on the work of American photographer Edward Weston arrives in September at Fundación Mapfre within the context of PHotoEspaña 2025. It will cover the bulk of his production, from the initiation stages within pictorialism to his consolidation as a central figure of direct photography.

Where will it take place? Paseo de Recoletos, 23 (Paseo del Arte)

Eleven years of Open House Madrid (September 25 to 28)

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The new edition of Open House Madrid will be held from September 25 to 28. The architecture festival will open the doors of a hundred buildings normally inaccessible to the general public. “It is the great open day of Madrid’s architecture”, as defined by the organization itself. The program and list of routes are yet to be confirmed.

📍Where? Several locations

Fiestas de la Melonera (September 4 to 7)

Camela, Nacha Pop and many more, confirm their presence for the celebration of the Fiestas de la Melonera, the great festivities of the neighborhood of Arganzuela: they will be from September 4 to 7 with installation of fairground attractions, booths and open-air dances in the Matadero Gardens-Madrid Rio Park.

📍 Where? Explanada de Madrid Río (Arganzuela)

Japan Weekend Madrid (September 20 and 21)

Japanese pop culture will invade IFEMA for two intense days. This year, the presence of Aina Aiba, Ryukishi07 (writer and screenwriter), Kazutaka Kodaka (video game director), the illustrator Dr. Moricky or the content creator Mister Jägger has been confirmed. And all the activities you can imagine, such as AIkido exhibitions, martial arts, the International Cosplay League, concerts, karaoke contests? even a Junior Cosplay contest.

📍 Where? IFEMA: Avenida del Partenón, 5 (Barajas district)

The last summer cinemas (different dates)

In September, some summer cinemas resist! This is the case of Fescinal (in Parque de la Bombilla), which announces that it will continue until September 6. Cibeles de Cine (CentroCentro) continues until September 12 with a varied program. La Estival, the summer cinema in Plaza de España, is also preparing a small program until September 14.

📍 Where to go? Different locations