After the success of the Madrid Original Visits Program launched by the City Council last March to disseminate the vast historical and cultural heritage of the capital through guided tours (the "Full capacity" poster was hung in all of them), the The consistory
has just presented the second edition of this interesting way to discover the corners of the city
.
The Madrid that Alfonso XII loved, the places that were linked to the Inquisition or the settings where the executions of May 2, 1808 took place, are some of the innovative itineraries available to tourists and locals until November.
The 25
different
exclusive tours
, designed by official guides and selected by a jury represented by the main professional associations of the Madrid tourism sector from among all the proposals received in the call made in April by the City Council, are carried out every week under reservation . The routes invite you to discover the city from another perspective, to get closer to its past, its cultural life, its urban transformation, its social evolution ... from the hand of the official guides who have devised them.
The tours (in Spanish) last approximately two hours and are carried out from Tuesday to Sunday for groups of a maximum of 20 people and at a
price of three euros
.
Tickets for the June and July visits are already on sale (they can be purchased in person at the Plaza Mayor Tourism Center and online from the website https://tienda.madrid-destino.com.
These are the 25 new original routes through Madrid:
1. Guided tour of Chueca and Salesas
.
Opportunity to rediscover these two neighborhoods, one of the most carefree, tolerant and alternative in Madrid.
Beyond its fame for its nightlife and shopping venues, aspects of its history and evolution will be known.
2. Foreigners in Madrid
.
From the complex relationship between the Chilean Neruda, Huidobro and Gabriela Mistral to the love story of Rubén Darío with Princess Paca, the adventures of Giacomo Cassanova or the fascination for the Spanish of the Russian composer Glinka, this itinerary reveals the footprint of some of the illustrious foreign figures who came to the capital.
Plaza de Callao, Madrid Destination.
3. Madrid, city of light
.
It is a journey through a Madrid on horseback between the 19th and 20th centuries, which reached modernity thanks to the dominance of light and electricity.
4. The Madrid of the happy 20s
.
It proposes a tour of the most
vintage
areas of the capital
: the first cars, the beginning of the subway and the emergence of art deco, cinema or musical styles such as jazz will be the protagonists of the visit.
5. A scandalous revolution: Esquilache, 1766.
A walk in which the story about the four days that the mutiny against the government of the Italian minister lasted will be the protagonist.
Its social background, facts, implicated and consequences will be analyzed.
6. The Madrid that was not
.
A tour of emblematic places of the capital, to reveal what they might have been like today if certain projects that were contemplated in the past had been carried out, such as, for example, a Puerta del Sol with two skyscrapers or a Royal Palace with four patios.
7. Madrid, pure theater
.
Route that invites you to immerse yourself in the world of Madrid performing arts through some of its theaters, the evolution of different genres and the role of women on stage.
Metropolis Building, on Madrid's Gran Vía.
8. Tell me how happened that May 2, 1808.
The Plaza de Callao or the streets of San Bernardo and Bailén are some of the stops on this itinerary where you will get to know first-hand the scenarios where the events that marked Madrid took place forever.
9. To the beat of Madrid
.
Review of the history of music in Madrid and its role as the birthplace or host city of great artists (Sacchetti, el castrato Farinelli, Verdi, Arrieta, Chueca ...).
10. Urban and social landscape of Atocha: Centuries of history.
A tour of one of the most popular streets in Madrid to show its development over time, of how that old religious road loses its original character to become a transit street to a communications, cultural and leisure center.
11. Madrid of the 'Caprichos'.
History of the city and its inhabitants through Goya's series of engravings, which will also reveal the ins and outs of this artistic technique.
Plaza de Santa Ana.
12. Madrid is fashion
.
From its old bazaars and commercial corridors to the most current shops, haute couture houses and handicraft shops, this walk combines tradition and modernity to give a vision of the evolution of fashion in the capital.
13. The Sinombrero
.
Painters, poets, writers, thinkers, translators, politicians, humanists or actresses, with their art and activism, challenged and changed the social and cultural norms of Spain in the 20s and 30s.
14. Bohemian Madrid
.
It is a particular journey that will take as a reference one of Valle-Inclán's great works,
Luces de Bohemia
, to make known to a whole generation of writers of Spanish literature, their gatherings in Madrid cafes and their rambles in taverns and houses about sleeping.
15. Madrid in the Golden Age
is centered on this brilliant era and will highlight the figure of artists and writers of the 16th and 17th centuries through a participatory route with questions and games aimed at people of all ages.
16. Architectures without prejudices
is an itinerary that highlights the originality and beauty of many of the capital's buildings.
The mix of styles ranges from neo-mudejar, renaissance, baroque, neoclassical to rationalism and contemporary architecture.
17. Between love and duty, simply Emilia
.
To commemorate the centenary of the death of the Galician writer Emilia Pardo Bazán, a review of her personal and professional life is made to draw that Madrid of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through her novels
A Christian
and
The Test
and of its main character Salustio.
18. The history of Madrid through its photographers
is a visit / workshop that presents the city from snapshots taken by its best photographers, while allowing attendees to create their own images, looking for analogies between past events and those of the present.
19. What the city hides
proposes to act as explorers in an exciting walk through a Madrid that we think we know but that has surprises around every corner.
20. Malasaña & Conde Duque through the centuries
.
A
journey
from the 20th century with
hipsters
and projects such as Triball, filming by Almodóvar and other filmmakers to the origins of the neighborhood with its first settlements in the area: palaces and convents.
21. Romantic Madrid.
Walk along the Elizabethan axis, from the Plaza de Oriente to the Plaza de Cortes, which draws that Madrid that is beginning to modernize with a new urbanism, its theaters, trams and cafes.
22. The Madrid that Alfonso XII loved
reviews the emblematic sites of the architectural and sculptural development that began with the reign of the monarch and the historical events linked to him and his women.
23. Madrid and its lies.
Legends of the old city, which will have as its common thread the multiple stories, some implausible and others not so much, that the people of Madrid have created over time.
24. Madrid 1622: Between rogues and other people of bad living
.
Tour of the places where professional beggars, thieves, scammers and hired killers were concentrated and the most famous cases involving some of them.
25. The Madrid of the Inquisition: witches, heretics and Jews
.
Route on the places linked to the Tribunal of the Holy Office in the capital (squares, prisons and the seat of the Tribunal).
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