The sky of Madrid is also yours in August.
We repeat it: Madrid It's cool in August too. We dare to say that it can even be cooler. The city empties, but it doesn't stop. You have plans to choose from and fewer people to fight over them. So, you, yes, you who have gone on vacation, don't come back if you don't want to, the city is our…
TRAVELING ON SCREEN
Cinema. Ah, the cinema. It is one of the best plans for the months of August. Because you can even throw a jacket on, while outside the thermometers mark 40º. Because in these days of intensive working hours (hopefully) or, simply, with fewer obligations, you can catch up on the billboard.
There are very diverse options: outdoors, like the Madrid Race drive-in, the ** Conde Duque summer cinema ** or Slaughterhouse Cinema Plaza; semi outdoors like cycles Cibeles of Cinema; and under cover, very cool, you should not miss the cycle of the film library, world travel (from Lawrence of Arabia to _Cinema Paradiso) _ or take the opportunity to finally get the €40 annual subscription to the Filmoteca and catch up on classics and newer movies that you missed the rest of the year.
Madrid is more movie buff in August.
GET UP TO DATE WITH THE CULTURE
All those exhibitions that you have been leaving during the year due to laziness, lack of time, fear of eternal queues... you no longer have an excuse. In August there is still a lot of art to see.
In photography you have to choose between the sample throughout the city of PhotoSpain, that lasts until the 26th of this month; the portraits of Cecil Beaton also or the images of Magnum agency...
Some of the most popular exhibitions, you can visit them with peace of mind, such as the one in Disney at CaixaForum; Monet/Boudin and Vasarely at the Thyssen, Gus Van Sant at La Casa Encendida... And you should take the opportunity to delve into illustration, from Japanese Yokai, to literary children's or **María Medem's vignettes of people and stories from Madrid. **
It is also a good time to discover those museums that, after years living in Madrid, you still do not know: the Lázaro-Galdiano, the Decorative Arts, the Costume, the Romantic, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts…
And, of course, don't forget to check out the program for **Village Summers** The more than three decades of this summer festival show that it is still the best way to liven up the summer: concerts, theater, talks, circus, dance... of Madrid sounds (one day, Saturday 4, of electronic music) to popular dance in the street. Come on, you need several Augusts in Madrid.
Last chance to see the best photos.
FREE TERRACE
You choose: ** terraceo in the heights, ** or at street level. ** With swimming pool, ** day or night. **Terraces where you can eat very well. ** Terraces to cañear without end. This 2018 they made themselves begging and when the heat came they were crowded as always, but the good thing about an August in Madrid is being able to choose a terrace at will.
EAT MADRID
We already told you. The fact that Madrid stopped in August is almost a myth, more and more bars and restaurants remain open even the whole month, we made you ** a list of ten **, between classics and new, but there are many more: Bar Galleta, La Malaje, Raro Rare, Los Galayos, El Canadiense, Ikigai, Green Tea Food & Drinks, Arzábal Museo, Bibo, Café Comercial, Gaytán…
You could take the opportunity to have dinner in Malquerida, in the ** Olivar de Castillejo. ** And there are many other places that close only a few days during this month, such as Soma of Arrando (closed between 5 and 19), one of the surprises of the year. You no longer have to worry about bikini operations from the devil, so go free.
Yes, it is an olive grove and an orchard in the middle of Madrid.
** PARTIES AND CHOTIS **
There are those who flee from them and there are those who spend the year waiting for them. First there are **San Cayetano (August 1-7) ** in the Embajadores area, with Plaza de Cascorro as the nerve center for chulapos and chulapas to drink lemonade and dance chotis. **San Lorenzo en Lavapiés (August 8-11) ** continues with international music concerts, plays and children's workshops. The two saints warm up the atmosphere for the big festivities in Madrid, those of the patron saint, The Dove (August 11-15). with vervain, concerts at Las Vistillas (Emir Kusturica & The Non Smoking Orchestra, Los Punsetes, Las Hinds), mus tournaments, giant paellas, chulapo contests... and some pasodobles.
LOUD MUSIC
Some will go to festivals around the world, but Madrid is not silent. Among the concerts of the Veranos de la villa is Maria Arnal and Marcel Bagés and the jazz trio Gogo Penguin, as main attractions. The proposals of the traditional festivals have Kusturica as the headliner. By Crown House they will still pass Tulsa, Return and New Day. Y The Magnetic Terrace of the burning house is still open for another August with a live music schedule every Sunday: Ann Deveria, Les Trucs, As Longitude and Victoria Lukas. And these are just a few...
The magnetic sunsets of Madrid.
GET AWAY FOR A WHILE
The good thing about staying in Madrid in August is being able to escape from the city one day. For example, fleeing to the mountains to see the shower of stars in the central days of the month. Or to take a bath in cold mountain water in the pools of ** Cercedilla **. Or simply, to follow the patron saint festivities of the towns of the region.