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.

The Plaza Mayor was built during the Habsburg period. It is a central square in Madrid, located only some steps away from another the Puerta del Sol. The Plaza Mayor is rectangular in shape,  and is surrounded by three-story residential buildings having 237 balconies facing the Plaza. It has a total of nine entranceways. The Casa de la Panadería, serving municipal and cultural functions as the central tourist office, dominates the Plaza Mayor.

Madrid is the capital of Spain, located right in the centre of the country, Madrid is the headquarters for the Public Administration, Government, Spanish Parliament and the home of the Spanish Royal Family, in fact a cosmopolitan city, and business center of Spain.

Madrid can trace its origins to the times of Arab Emir Mohamed I (852-886), who ordered the construction of a fortress on the left bank of the Manzanares river. Later it became the subject of a dispute between the Christians and Arabs until it was conquered by Alonso VI in the XI century. At the end of the XVII century, a defensive wall was built for the protection of the new outlying areas, tracing the roads of Segovia, Toledo and Valencia. During the 18th century, under the reign of Carlos III, were designed the great arteries of the city, such as the Paseo del Prado and Paseo las Acacias.

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.