Welcome to Madrid

Madrid is more than just a city to visit: it's a city to be lived. And, no matter how short your stay will be, you will live Madrid with intensity, enjoying the capital or using it as a base for countless trips to historic towns from the very heart of Spain.

If you are rather an explorer than a tourist, you will fall in love with Madrid.

Explore Madrid with us

Madrid Original® helps you exploring Madrid with original private tours.
For us, original means essential, authentic, and different. Thus our visits are based on history not on legends, with answers to your questions, but told like a tale with a plot and suspense, so that you like them and never forget them. Do you want to know us better?

What do you feel like?

We explore the big museums from every point of view, we go with you to the little ones. For each exhibition we have a lecture. We organize gallery walks. We guide you to palaces, convents and monasteries. We offer you walking tours by streets, neighbohoods and historical gardens. And we prepare for you trips to other places in Spain, comfortably linked with Madrid.

Event: ARCOmadrid 2012

ARCOmadrid 2012 has lots of proposals in this new edition, all of them suiting in times like these: fight the uncertainty in markets and the lesser participation of institutions with an important…

Exhibition: The Hermitage in the Prado

An illustrious museum receives another one: the Prado Museum welcomes the Hermitage. More than two hundred masterpieces will represent the great museum in our national art gallery. Archeological…

Exhibition: Chagall

Marc Chagall has filled of colour the Thyssen Museum and Fundación Cajamadrid. This painter of Russian roots, whose long and eventful life (1887-1985) witnessed the most vibrant moments of the 20th century, has been…

How to book a visit with Madrid Original in 3 steps

1 Browse the menu "Guided tours" and make your choice.

2 Fill the contact form. We will confirm availability and prices.

3 Confirm the reservation, and we set the meeting point.

Guided visits to exhibitions

Exhibition: Granada in Sorolla

Sorolla Museum is a never ending treasure chest. Sorolla as a mature painter only produced good art: either big or small size, it was always good. There are so many works in his house-studio in several rows, that just re-ordering…

Venue and date Museo Sorolla, 4/oct/11 to 22/feb/12

Event: ARCOmadrid 2012

ARCOmadrid 2012 has lots of proposals in this new edition, all of them suiting in times like these: fight the uncertainty in markets and the lesser participation of institutions with an important international attendance (including the invitation to worldwide collectors)…

Venue and date Ifema Madrid, 15-19/feb/2012

Exhibition: Chagall

Venue and date Museo Thyssen and F. Caja Madrid, from 14/feb/12 to 20/may/12

Exhibition: Locus Solus. Impressions by Raymond Roussel

"Locus Solus", a novel starred by strange machines and unlikely works of art, is the name of the villa where these treasures are hoarded. "Impressions of Africa" is about papier mache's adventures, similar to those by Le Douanier Rousseau. Raymond…

Venue and date Museo Reina Sofía, from 25/oct/11 to 27/feb/12

Exhibition: Martin Creed THINGS-COSAS

What is the difference between this paper we have crumpled into a ball, and the one by Martin Creed ? If you are wondering what is art, then you have the same question than Martin Creed, awarded by 2001 Turner…

Venue and date Sala Alcalá 31, from 15/dec/11 to 26/feb/12

Exhibition: The Golden Fleece

The Golden Fleece was the symbol of Burgundy's and Flemish power, afterwards of a family (the "Habsbourgs"), later of another one (the "Austrias"), and finally of the Kings of Spain, all dynasties mixed (Bourbon, Bonaparte and Savoy) until today.Such continuity…

Venue and date Fundación Carlos de Amberes, from 1/dec/11 to 11/mar/12

Exhibition: The Hermitage in the Prado

An illustrious museum receives another one: the Prado Museum welcomes the Hermitage. More than two hundred masterpieces will represent the great museum in our national art gallery. Archeological treasures, worldwide names of the art, Spanish giants, classical Russians, essential artists…

Venue and date Prado Museum, from 8/oct/11 to 25/march/12

1 year in Madrid: Guided visits to 2011-2012 exhibitions

Our proposal: guiding you once a month through one of the best exhibitions of academic year 2011-2012. Here is what we know so far about exhibition from september 2011 until june 2012: