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Medium-term stays in Madrid: why March is a key month

A medium-term stay — between three weeks and three months — has very specific needs that fit neither short-term tourist accommodation nor a conventional long-term rental contract. It needs the flexibility of the first and the comfort of the second, without the drawbacks of either. And Madrid, in that category, has in March an offer that in other months of the year simply does not exist with the same...

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Madrid neighbourhoods that come alive at the start of spring

There are neighbourhoods in Madrid that are good at any time of year, and neighbourhoods that in spring become something else entirely. Not worse in winter or better in summer — simply different, with an additional layer that only appears when the temperature rises, the trees fill with green and the life of the city returns to the street rather than staying inside. The neighbourhoods below are those...

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Living spring in Madrid before anyone else: the advantages of arriving early

There are two ways to live spring in Madrid. The first is the tourist's way: arriving in April or May, when the city is already running at full capacity — terraces packed, museums with queues, restaurants without an easy table, the most photogenic neighbourhoods crowded with people doing exactly what you are doing. The second way — the one that few people choose, and that those who do tend not to...

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Madrid in March: how the city changes when the light arrives

In Madrid, the change of season does not arrive in a single day. It arrives through accumulation, in small signals the city drops without announcing them: a morning when the sunlight is no longer oblique but direct, an afternoon when the terraces suddenly appear with people and nobody quite knows who sat down first, a market where the fruit starts to smell different. March is the month when all of that...

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Peaceful plans in Madrid for those looking for more than tourism

There is a type of traveller — increasingly common — who arrives in Madrid knowing exactly what they do not want. They do not want the museum tour with headphones. They do not want the TripAdvisor restaurant with paella photos. They do not want the tour of the monuments they have already seen a hundred times on Instagram. They want something harder to find and harder to describe: they want the real...