MADRID HOTELS: The 10 top rooftop pools
SUMMER is the best time to visit Madrid thanks to the huge number of hotels with rooftop pools. Here are the most stylish for a cool dip
ARTS: Madrid’s sizzling summer of culture
VERANOS de la Villa has 200 inspiring events by international artists in 25 locations (many outdoors). Book your trip to the capital now! Ends August 27.
SPANISH DINERS go wild for elephants
WHAT Spain’s trendy diners want most after cocktails is exotic wildlife. The restaurants de moda boast elephants, rhinos and giraffe, and good sushi.
DON’T MISS: The Best of What’s on in Spain
TOP events for August from Malaga and Madrid to Nerja, La Rioja and Valencia and the Cala Mijas festival. Unmissable concerts, events and experiences!
MADRID: How to get around (without a taxi)
THE best ways to travel to Madrid, and to get around the city on public transport and rental bikes, with links to all the maps you need.
KICK OFF: Legends, The Home of Football
FOR football memorabilia, history and immersive 4D experiences head to a new museum in Madrid dedicated to the beautiful game.
Pope Francis wanted it in Rome, and the Emir of Qatar, a massive fan who knows every stat and bit of football trivia, wanted it...
DON’T MISS The Best of What’s on in Spain
Top events in Spain for the week and month ahead from Benidorm to Barcelona via Valencia, Malaga, and Marbella.
THIS WEEK
Madrid Fiestas de San Isidro (May 15). Time to lie in the park and listen to music. Events across Madrid.
Valencia Meat Carnival...
DON’T MISS: The Best of What’s On in Spain
Top events in Spain for the week and month ahead from Malaga to Madrid via Barcelona and Cordoba.
THE WEEK AHEAD
Ronda Romantica (May 11-13). Ronda (Malaga) wholeheartedly returns to the heady days of bandoliers, horsemen, wine and song with performances, markets and processions.
Cordoba Patio...
Short Break in Madrid: Five reasons why Spain’s arty capital draws us in
GET set, ready… Go! The masks are off and it’s time for an adventure. But nothing too exotic.
Madrid is the perfect spring escape. And not just because of the weather.
Spain’s most exciting city - and easily the friendliest capital in Europe - has more...
Travel Spain: How the pandemic saw Madrid transform into a luxury tourism destination
As travel reawakens in the post-lockdown world, Spain’s capital has repositioned itself to attract the big spenders
TOP SPOT: Hotels in Madrid and Ibiza lead the way in a global luxury...
WHEN it comes to the world’s best luxury hotels, Spain ticks many boxes.
Now, a new hot list puts an exciting launch and two long-awaited relaunches of hotels over the last year at the top of the pile.
Ibiza’s new Six Senses hotel and Madrid’s recently...
Spain unveils plans for largest artificial beach in Europe just 30 mins drive from...
PLANS have been unveiled for the largest artificial beach in Europe which will be located just a half an hour drive from the capital.
Permission has been given to create a giant water park with 25,000 square metres of pools surrounded by 15,000 square metres...
RavioXo: World’s best chef Dabiz Muñoz opens new restaurant showcasing pasta dishes in Madrid
MADRID will see the opening of a new pasta restaurant RavioXO on Monday, the latest offering from the ‘enfant terrible’ of Spain’s culinary world, Dabiz Muñoz.
The 42-year-old, who last year won the ‘best chef in the world’ award, will open his new establishment within...
Weekend in Madrid: Five reasons why Spain’s arty capital should be drawing you in...
GET set, ready… Go! The masks are off and it’s time for an adventure. But nothing too exotic.
Madrid is the perfect spring escape. And not just because of the weather.
Spain’s most exciting city - and easily the friendliest capital in Europe - has more...
Two tables: Review of Deessa, Quique Dacosta’s new Michelin starred restaurant at Madrid’s Ritz...
IT must be easily the most elegant restaurant in the capital.
A true sense of grandeur awaits the lucky diners who get to try out Deessa, the hippest new Michelin-star restaurant of Quique Dacosta at the Ritz Hotel.
Spain’s chef of the moment had to be...
Mandarin Oriental Ritz: Welcome to the lap of luxury in Spain’s capital Madrid
FROM the sitting room of my suite I can see the queue for the ticket office at the Prado and the entrance of the Thyssen Museum across the regal fountains of the Plaza de Neptuno. And if it weren’t for the densely tree-lined Paseo...
REVIEW: Style and substance after stunning overhaul of Madrid hotel Rosewood Villa Magna
Big team effort behind five-star relaunch in Madrid's upmarket Barrio Salamanca, writes Jon Clarke
INTERVIEW: Meet Quique Dacosta, the chef behind Deessa restaurant at Madrid’s Mandarin Oriental Ritz...
The culinary genius is bringing his exquisite dishes to Madrid from Valencia, and has just won a Michelin star for his restaurant at the Ritz.
DiverXo: ‘World’s best chef’ David Muñoz raises price tag to become the most expensive...
JUST months after Spain’s culinary whizz kid David 'Dabiz' Muñoz was voted ‘Best Chef in the World’ he has upped the price of a tasting menu at his three-Michelin-starred restaurant DiverXo to an eye-watering €365.
The ‘enfant terrible’ of Spain’s restaurant scene has raised the price...
IN PICS: Dine in the Madrid sky at the tallest restaurant in Spain
IT BRINGS new meaning to the term ‘haute cuisine’; A new restaurant has opened in a Madrid skyscraper to become the highest dining establishment in all of Spain.
Elkar opened this week on the 33 rd floor of the Torre Emperador in the capital’s business...
REVIEW: is Madrid’s Diverxo chef Dabiz Munoz really the best in the world? He’s...
With news that Dabiz Muñoz has just been named the world's best chef, check out the review by Olive Press editor Jon Clarke of DiverXo restaurant in Madrid.
Madrid’s Retiro park just won UNESCO status but it hides a shameful secret for...
CAMPAIGNERS are calling for recognition of a shameful period in the history of Madrid’s Retiro park when people would come to stare wide-eyed at live exhibits in a ‘human zoo’.
When news came through last month that Madrid’s Retiro Park had been awarded with the...
REVIEW: Madrid’s born-again Gran Hotel Ingles is the lap of Belle Epoque luxury
Many original features have been saved, from time-faded photos of guests to vintage postcards and an ancient typewriter by the lifts
IN PICS: Cristiano Ronaldo’s new luxury hotel opens its doors in Spain’s Madrid
CRISTIANO Ronaldo's luxury brand CR7 opened its new flagship hotel on Madrid's Gran Via on Monday.
The soft rollout of the third hotel bearing the CR7 brand took place to coincide with the possibility of the easing of COVID-19 restrictions to tourists to the capital....
Calling all adventurers: ‘Zarajos’ and ‘entresijos’ – tried the weird Spanish food from Madrid?
Jon Clarke tests his tastebuds with a few of the culinary oddities of Madrid
REVIEW: The bet pays off for Paco Roncero at Madrid’s Terraza del Casino
MADRID has gone through a food revolution since I lived there in the early 1990s when it was literally all about roast suckling pig, pinchos de tortilla and there was just one vegetarian restaurant, near the Retiro.
Today, it has as buzzing a food scene...
Olive Press Travel
‘What have you done?!’ British ambassador to Spain joins chorus of shock over Marks & Spencer’s Chorizo Paella Croquetas
IN THE long list of British crimes against Spanish cuisine, there is a new addition. Marks & Spencer is selling what it is billing...
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Airport strikes in Spain: Which flights will be affected by walkouts planned for December?
MORE than 35,000 flights across Spain are at risk of being affected by strikes planned for December, it has emerged.
It comes after the General...
