Madrid Essentials
A first afternoon that makes the city legible. The old quarter, the streets worth returning to, and where to eat tonight.
- Duration
- 2.5 hours
- Format
- On foot
- Guests
- Up to 12
- Best hour
- Late afternoon
Private Cultural Experiences
Madrid, opened for one party at a time.
Every private tour is rebuilt around who is travelling and how long they have. No fixed departures, no group of strangers, no umbrella to follow.
Your private guide
Every commission goes out with a private guide from a short list, not a roster. Historians, art specialists and people who have spent their lives in these streets, chosen for how they read a room rather than how well they perform. If the right one is not free on your date, we say so instead of sending someone else.
The commissions
Habsburg Madrid
The Madrid of the Austrias told slowly: the court, the convents, and the streets that were built to be walked in silence.
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Format
- On foot
- Guests
- Up to 12
- Best hour
- Early morning
Barrio de las Letras
Cervantes, Lope de Vega and the cafes that outlived them, in the quarter where Spanish literature was argued into being.
- Duration
- 2.5 hours
- Format
- On foot
- Guests
- Up to 12
- Best hour
- Late morning
El Prado, privately
Two hours with a guide who tells you which twelve paintings matter and why, instead of the forty everyone photographs.
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Format
- On foot
- Guests
- Small parties
- Best hour
- Weekday mornings
Madrid, eaten properly
Markets, a bar that has not changed a recipe in eighty years, and a table booked where the neighbourhood sits.
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Format
- On foot
- Guests
- Up to 8
- Best hour
- Midday or evening
Airport Welcome
Someone waiting when you land, luggage handled, and the city explained on the way in.
- Duration
- Barajas, any terminal
- Format
- With vehicle
- Guests
- Any party
- Best hour
- Any hour
Beyond Madrid
An hour from the city there are places that deserve the whole day. We drive, you look out of the window, and lunch is booked before we leave.
- Toledo
- Segovia
- Ávila
- El Escorial
- Wineries
Full days door to door. Each one is quoted with the plan: the distance, the hours, and whether lunch and tickets are inside it.
What every commission includes
- A guide working for your party and nobody else that day
- A conversation before the date, not a form
- Tickets and reservations arranged in advance
- Reconfirmation 72 hours before you arrive
- One number, answered, on the day itself
What it never includes
- Fixed departures or shared groups
- Shopping stops we are paid to make
- Anywhere we have not been ourselves
Tell us who is travelling
Dates, the size of the party and what they already know about Madrid. That is enough to start.
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