Madrid, a city where everyone is welcome, where different languages fly from mouth to mouth, where life is life, with energy, joy and hustle and bustle 24 hours a day. Moreover, Madrid is the best destination for anyone who wants to achieve excellent results in the celebration of any type of meeting. This city hosts more than 4,000 congresses and conventions every year thanks to its wide range of facilities, its excellent communications system, the quality of its hotel infrastructure and a significant cultural and leisure offer. For all these reasons, we are convinced that your stay in Madrid will be a unique and unforgettable experience.
More than a hundred museums and two hundred historical and artistic monuments bear witness to the history and art of the people who have inhabited Madrid over the centuries. A legacy of illustrious figures, whether born in Madrid or adopted, such as Cervantes, Velázquez, Goya, Picasso or Dalí. Madrid offers its visitors an incomparable visit: the art triangle (in which the three main museums are located: the Prado Museum, the Reina Sofía National Museum and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum), a unique itinerary in the world that runs between painting and sculpture, architecture and nature, in one of the most emblematic and appreciated enclaves of the city, the Paseo del Prado.
Madrid's cultural and historical legacy can be felt in its streets: the Madrid of the Habsburgs, the Madrid of the Bourbons, medieval Madrid, 19th century Madrid, Goya's Madrid and Velázquez's Madrid, among others.
To speak of Mediterranean cuisine is to speak of variety. Visitors can choose from the simplicity of tapas, an avant-garde restaurant or an exotic menu. More than 5,000 restaurants delight the most exquisite palates, adding even more flavour to its gastronomy. Madrid can be considered a melting pot of the most diverse cuisines of the world and, naturally, also of Spanish specialities.
In fact, regional cuisines are widely represented in Madrid, hence the variety of stews, roasts, salads, sweets, wines and liquors that make up the city's gastronomic offer.
The shop windows, showcases and shelves of the shops display all their charms to passers-by who, seduced, can't help but buy something or other. Shopping in Madrid is an incredibly tempting activity, given the variety, the quality and the infinite and attractive possibilities one encounters. Visitors will find products to suit all tastes and pockets, in places ranging from the most exclusive brand-name establishments in the Salamanca neighbourhood to the most traditional shops in the city centre.
Madrid offers its visitors everything imaginable in terms of leisure and entertainment. In Madrid the days are endless and simply merge into the night. First the cinemas open, then the theatres, the Opera, the musicals, the concert halls, then the cocktail bars, the fashionable discotheques and so on until dawn. Madrid never sleeps. The city's nightlife offers shows and atmospheres for all tastes: casual or elegant, sophisticated or alternative. They say it is the most fun city on earth.
With almost 3,000 hours of sunlight a year, Madrid is a bright and warm city, and its continental Mediterranean climate is the best invitation for a stroll. The city is adorned with a large number of parks that contribute to creating a pleasant and healthy atmosphere.
Madrid is the only metropolis in the world surrounded by six cities with UNESCO World Heritage status within a radius of 100 km and less than an hour's drive: Toledo, Ávila, Segovia, Alcalá de Henares, El Escorial and Aranjuez.
Due to its geographical location, in this historical and artistic complex, a combination of living culture and history, architecture, monuments and art from Roman times to the present day coexist in a perfect state of preservation.