1. CCME: Coca-Cola Music Experience
The Coca-Cola Music Experience takes over Iberdrola Music for two nights, with Melendi, Wisin, Ysy A and a wider mix of Spanish and Latin pop, urban and reggaetón acts across the main stage and side areas. Doors open early afternoon each day, with music starting mid-afternoon and running into the night, and the site includes food stalls and rest areas built for a full-day stay. One of Madrid's larger late-summer music festivals, tickets from €46.20.
🚩 Music & Concerts
🏛️ Iberdrola Music (Calle Laguna Dalga, Villaverde, 28021 Madrid)
🎟️ From €46.20
📅 4–5 September
⏰ Doors 13:00, concerts from 16:00
2. Madrid Premier Padel P1 by Oysho
The world's top padel players return to Movistar Arena for the fifth edition of Madrid's Premier Padel P1, run across six days of qualifying, group stages and finals. This year could mark the last Madrid appearance for Alejandra Salazar, one of the sport's most decorated players, adding a farewell subplot to the closing weekend's matches. Session times vary by day, with morning, midday and evening slots typically on offer as the tournament wraps up.
🚩 Sport & Fitness
🏛️ Movistar Arena (Avenida de Felipe II, s/n, 28009, Madrid)
🎟️ Varies
📅 Until 6 September
⏰ Sessions ~09:00, 12:00 & 16:00 (check official site)
3. Nostalgia / Utopía: Ana Locking
Ana Locking spent two decades dressing figures from Rossy de Palma to Beyoncé before turning her own archive into this retrospective, tracing her path from underground Madrid shows to international runways. The exhibition lays sketches, garments and show footage side by side, tracking how one silhouette gets reworked across collections. Sala Canal de Isabel II sits inside a converted water pumping station, an unusual backdrop for couture. Free entry.
🚩 Exhibitions & Art
🏛️ Sala Canal de Isabel II (Calle de Santa Engracia, 125, 28003, Madrid)
🎟️ Free
📅 Until 27 September
⏰ Tue–Sat 11:00–20:30, Sun 11:00–14:00
4. Driving Through Palestine
Photographer and filmmaker Rehab Nazzal spent years documenting daily movement through the occupied West Bank, and this show at Casa Árabe presents that material as still photography and video, built around checkpoints, roadblocks and the routes Palestinians use to get around them. Rather than a single narrative, it works as a document of logistics: how long a journey takes, which roads are open on a given day. Free entry, through mid-October.
🚩 Exhibitions & Art
🏛️ Casa Árabe (Calle de Alcalá, 62, 28009, Madrid)
🎟️ Free
📅 Until 18 October
⏰ Daily 10:00–20:00
5. Fernando Sánchez Castillo: The Wayward Pearl
Sculptor Fernando Sánchez Castillo reopens the restored Palacio de Velázquez in Retiro Park with a career-spanning survey built from compressed metal, cast bronze and salvaged monuments. His work takes apart the iconography of Spanish military power, melting down or crushing the same kind of statues that once stood in public squares. The glass-roofed nave, itself 19th-century industrial architecture, gives the heavier pieces room to breathe. Free entry.
🚩 Exhibitions & Art
🏛️ Palacio de Velázquez (Parque de El Retiro, s/n, 28009, Madrid)
🎟️ Free
📅 Until 8 March 2027
⏰ Daily 10:00–22:00
6. Goya and the Flemish and Italian schools
The Museo de Historia de Madrid brings together Goya's complete Children at Play series with paintings from the Flemish, Italian and Spanish schools acquired over the past century, built around one question: how patronage shaped what ended up on Madrid's walls. The five Goya scenes, showing children fencing and riding hobby horses, hang alongside works that arrived through the same chain of donations. Free entry, closing in late September.
🚩 Exhibitions & Art
🏛️ Museo de Historia de Madrid (Calle de Fuencarral, 78, 28004, Madrid)
🎟️ Free
📅 Until 23 September
⏰ Tue–Sun 10:00–19:00
7. Madrid en construcción, 1940-1985
This photography exhibition tracks Madrid's rebuilding between 1940 and 1985, using archive images of cranes, scaffolding and half-finished tower blocks to trace how the city grew from a war-damaged capital into a modern metropolis. The photographs come from the Comunidad de Madrid's own archives, covering social housing estates and the first motorways cut through the outskirts. A deliberately unglamorous counterpoint to postcard Madrid. Free entry.
🚩 Exhibitions & Art
🏛️ Sala Cristóbal Portillo de El Águila (Calle Ramírez de Prado, 3, 28045, Madrid)
🎟️ Free
📅 Until 22 September
⏰ Mon–Sat 10:00–14:00 & 16:00–20:00, Sun 10:00–14:00
8. PSJM Collective: Democracia Americana
The artist duo PSJM splits this show across Casa de América's Galería ABANCA, pairing American Colors, a study of the palettes used in US political branding, with American Democracy, a look at the visual language of campaigns and institutions. Flags, ballot design and corporate logos become raw material, stripped into geometric compositions. The gallery shares a building with American Latinos 1935-1945, making a joint visit easy. Free entry.
🚩 Exhibitions & Art
🏛️ Casa de América – Galería ABANCA (Calle Marqués del Duero, 2, 28014, Madrid)
🎟️ Free
📅 Until 30 September
⏰ Mon–Fri 11:00–19:30, Sat 11:00–15:00
9. American Latinos 1935–1945
Nearly 300 portraits from the Library of Congress archive make up this exhibition on Hispanic communities in the United States between 1935 and 1945, shot by government photographers documenting farm labourers, factory workers and small-town life during the Depression and wartime years. It covers a stretch of American history rarely seen through this lens, focused specifically on Latino communities. Casa de América, free entry, until 30 September.
🚩 Exhibitions & Art
🏛️ Casa de América – Galería ABANCA (Calle Marqués del Duero, 2, 28014, Madrid)
🎟️ Free
📅 Until 30 September
⏰ Mon–Fri 11:00–19:30, Sat 11:00–15:00
10. Helbig Archive: 96-26
Designer Teresa Helbig gets a 30-year retrospective at the Museo del Traje, tracing her path from early collections to the couture pieces that later dressed Spanish royalty and red-carpet regulars. The show mixes finished garments with sketches, toiles and archive photography, laying out how one design idea gets refined across seasons. One of the more substantial fashion exhibitions Madrid has hosted this year, free entry, until late September.
🚩 Exhibitions & Art
🏛️ Museo del Traje (Avenida de Juan de Herrera, 2, 28040, Madrid)
🎟️ Free
📅 Until 27 September
⏰ Tue–Sat 09:30–19:00, Sun & holidays 10:00–15:00
11. Machu Picchu: a VR journey to the Inca Empire
This free-roam virtual reality experience rebuilds Machu Picchu as it stood under Inca rule, letting small groups walk the terraces and stone paths of the citadel without leaving Fever Hub Madrid. A robot guide named Teri, voiced by Terry Crews, narrates the route through the reconstructed site, mixing historical detail with how the Incas built at altitude without mortar. Sessions run Wednesday to Sunday in timed slots, tickets from €13.
🚩 Tours & Experiences
🏛️ Fever Hub Madrid (Calle de Raimundo Fernández Villaverde, 57, 28003, Madrid)
🎟️ From €13
📅 Ongoing
⏰ Wed–Sun, session times vary
12. Legends: The Home of Football
More than 600 historic shirts fill this permanent football museum near Sol, alongside a 4D cinema, VR penalty games and interactive galleries covering the sport's global history rather than any single club. The collection pulls kits and memorabilia from across decades and countries, giving it a broader scope than Madrid's two stadium museums, which stick to their own trophy cabinets. Legends is entirely indoors, a solid rainy-day option, tickets from €23.
🚩 Tours & Experiences
🏛️ Legends: The Home of Football (Carrera de San Jerónimo, 2, 28014, Madrid)
🎟️ From €23
📅 Open year-round
⏰ Mon–Thu 10:00–20:30, Fri 10:00–21:30, Sat 10:00–22:30, Sun 10:00–22:00
13. F1 Arcade Madrid
Opposite the Bernabéu, this racing simulator venue packs more than 65 dynamic rigs across two floors, pairing full-motion F1 cockpits with a bar and restaurant menu built for groups. Simulators range from beginner-friendly setups to versions close to what actual F1 drivers train on, with bookings run as timed racing sessions rather than open access. Aimed squarely at group nights out, with tickets from €19.95 and food available throughout.
🚩 Tours & Experiences
🏛️ F1 Arcade Madrid (Paseo de la Castellana, 103, 28046, Madrid)
🎟️ From €19.95
📅 Open year-round
⏰ Mon–Wed 12:00–00:00, Thu 12:00–01:00, Fri–Sat 11:00–02:00, Sun 11:00–00:00
14. Exponential: 150 years of telecommunications
Eighty objects and nine interactive stations trace 150 years of telecommunications history at this permanent exhibition inside Espacio Fundación Telefónica, running from early telegraph equipment to today's mobile networks. Visitors can test working replicas of switchboards and early telephones rather than just reading wall text, and a section on submarine cables explains how data physically crosses oceans. Free entry, no closing date.
🚩 Exhibitions & Art
🏛️ Espacio Fundación Telefónica (Calle de Fuencarral, 3, 28004, Madrid)
🎟️ Free
📅 Open year-round
⏰ Tue–Fri 10:00–20:00, weekends 11:00–20:00, closed Mon
15. Municipal Farmers' Market: Planetario
Thirty-six small-scale producers set up stalls along Avenida del Planetario for this one-day farmers' market, selling olive oil, cheese, honey, wine and other goods bought directly from the people who make them. It's run by the Ayuntamiento's own municipal market programme, which rotates similar one-day events through different districts of the city. The Arganzuela edition runs a single Sunday morning, with free entry and no booking required.
🚩 Markets & Fairs
🏛️ Avenida del Planetario (Arganzuela) (Avenida del Planetario esquina C/ Meneses, 28045 Madrid)
🎟️ Free
📅 6 September
⏰ 10:00–15:00
