Cultura Urbana is an annual festival in Madrid promoting Hip Hop culture. Ever since its first edition in 2005, it had been gaining more followers and it has rapidly been consolidated as one of the biggest outdoor festivals in Spain.

The scenery for this great festival has been changing every edition because it is becoming more and more important, attracting every year more people that need more space and new activities and concerts.

Gay Pride has become lately in one of the most famous festivities of Madrid. During these days the borough of Chueca becomes an outdoor party, where everybody is welcome and the official motto is freedom.

Chueca is the gay area of Madrid. Ever since Gay population started to gou out around the area, the borough suffered a transformation: from being one of the most famous places in Madrid for Drug selling to being, nowadays, one of the most expensive areas in the city full of restaurants, bars, and shops.

During the months of July and August, Madrid has an important cultural offer with the festival Los Veranos de la Villa. First edition was in the year 1985, in a period called La Movida (which means the move, and refers to a period of new trends in Madrid, because of the cultural life that was occurring at the time in the city.

Summer nights in Madrid become life scenery where it is possible to enjoy from traditional spectacles such as Zarzuela, Flamenco and Fados to rock, jazz, R&B or gospel.  Traditionally it has been an outdoor festival that occurs in some of the most emblematic spots of the city, but in the last years, theatres who wanted to participate in the festival have expanded the cultural opportunities during the summer in Madrid.

Madrid has one of the most amazing nightlife in Spain every single night of the year. Obviously it is also this way on the New Year´s Eve.

Thousands of people congregate at Puerta del Sol, which is the centre spot of Spain, considered the Kilometre 0, because it is the point from where all the motorways distances are counted.

This festivity honors Patron Saint of Madrid, San Isidro. The official date is the 15^th of May, but the celebration lasts for a week and it has plenty of concerts, performances, and all  sort of activities.

On this date it is typical to go to the local shrine and to drink water from the well where the saint worked his miracles. Legend tells that this saint got to make rise water by beating the floor with his hoe, in a time of deep drought.  The second part of the story is about how this same fountain water got to heal King Felipe the Third, of a serious disease.