Autumn in Madrid, don’t miss its cultural agenda!

Madrid is ready to receive autumn! If you are going to study in Madrid next year, you are in luck. The city offers a broad variety of cultural activities and shows for every taste. Cultural activities in Madrid in autumn cannot be missed. The city streets offer a unique ambiance with festivals, exhibitions and cultural shows. A mandatory visit is the Autumn Festival considered the best festival of scenic arts of the country.

This festival celebrates its 41^st anniversary in November 2023 with a program that always outstands for its marked international imprint. The best theatre, dance and performance proposals will fill several cultural venues of the city such as Teatros del Canal, Conde Duque or the Theatre de La Abadía, among others.

Also you may enjoy art exhibitions in museums such as Reina Sofía, el Prado and Thyssen-Bornemisza. In autumn you will find throughout the city exhibitions about Picasso, Juan Muñoz, André Butzer, Sorolla or Dalí, among many others.

Download this guide with the 30 museums you cannot miss in Madrid! With map and practical information: Folleto “Madrid: Arte y cultura: Museos” (PDF)

Concerts in Autumn in Madrid
But, what would be of Madrid without its shows? In autumn, the city dresses up for the occasion to receive the best international artists in concerts and shows. You can enjoy concerts of famous artists in venues such as the WiZink Center or La Ribera (Helloween, Rauw Alejandro, Louis Tomlinson, Larkin Poe…), as well as at the National Auditorium or the Royal Theatre where you will delight yourself with first level operas and ballets such as Medea, Orlando, Halka, Luisa Fernanda…).

Also in November you cannot miss the International Jazz Festival of Madrid that gathers the best jazz international musicians in different scenarios of the city.

The official program of JAZZMADRID developed at the city headquarters of Fernán Gómez, Centro Cultural de la Villa, CentroCentro and Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Condeduque, is normally completed with concerts hosted by the National Auditorium, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Instituto Italiano di Cultura, Institut Français de Madrid and with the cycle Villanos de Jazz, carried out in different spaces and decisively collaborating to extend, in time and scene geography, the festival. JAZZMADRID increases even further its power with the cycles Festival de Jazz Ciudad Lineal, 21 Distritos and La Noche en Vivo.

Madrid is the capital of musicals in Spanish. Do not miss its premiers in autumn or musicals that have already succeeded in the theatres of the capital! The Lion King, Matilda, Chicago, Pretty woman, the phantom of the Opera…

Also in autumn Madrid’s agenda is filled with other important events such as the Week of Architecture, Madrid Otra Mirada or the Antiques Fair Feriarte.