WE’RE SMACK BANG IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIESTAS OF SAN ISIDRO, MADRID’S PATRON SAINT!
Mayor of Madrid Jose Luis Martinez-Almeida, center, joins a party of chulapos and chulapas
at the opening of the San Isidro festivities 2022
You won’t want to miss any of these! They make Madrid Madrid. So old yet so fresh they’re all but brand-new!
They’re the fiestas in honor of San Isidro Labrador who was born in Madrid c. 1070, canonized in 1522, and whose feast day is 15 May.
What and where
San Isidro depicted in a painting
Hallowed grounds forever associated with Madrid’s beloved patron saint: Balcón del Ayuntamiento en the Plaza de la Villa, La Pradera, Puente de Toledo, Las Vistillas, Plaza de Matadero. . .
Centuries-old religious rituals.
Chotis, zarzuelas, cuplés. . .
Concerts: Amistades Peligrosas, Jaime Lorente, Medina Azahara, Los Chichos, The Skatalites, Belako, Nacha la Macha, Rusowsky. . .
CHECK OUT THE PROGRAMMING here.
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Images
Featured image/Diario de Madrid Ayuntamiento de Madrid, CC BY4.0
San Isidro painting/Enrique Lopez-Tamayo Biosca from Flickr. CC BY2.0 via Wikipedia. (Painting at La Barca de la Fé Templo Parroquial de San Andres Buenavista, Tlaxcala, Mexico.)
