Whether you are passing through as a tourist or if you live in a city, a guided tour is a simple, comfortable and affordable option to get to know the city better.
Of course, remember that the fact that a tour is free does not mean that you do not have to be grateful. It is customary in these tours to thank the guide for his time, his knowledge and his attention to our questions with a tip, even if it is one of these free tours of Madrid .
Metropol building, Madrid.
There are free tours in Madrid for all tastes, so you have information to make an “essential” tour of the center of Madrid for those who have never stepped foot on its streets before, but also thematic tours, for those who want to learn more about certain aspects of history from the city.
1.- Free Tour in Madrid
We start this list of free tours of Madrid with the essential free tour to get to know the city better, the Free Tour of Madrid , which covers the most emblematic places in the city center on foot.
Puerta de Alcala, Madrid.
2.- Free Tour through Chueca and Malasaña
Madrid is a scoundrel and a night owl , without distinction of gender or preferences, both for drinks and for other pleasures. The two quintessential neighborhoods that represent this Madrid philosophy are the ones that we will visit on the Chueca and Malasaña Free Tour .
Malasaña is a neighborhood of bars, terraces and tapas and vermouth venues, beers and drinks. The Malasaña neighborhood is the typical scenario where you go to have a snack at noon and you run the risk of closing bars at dawn and you will visit it with this free tour, in the morning or in the afternoon, learning more about some of its most emblematic establishments and even about what the Movida Madrileña was in the 80s.
Malasaña neighborhood.
3.- Free Tour of the Illustrious Women of Madrid
Whether in politics or science, in literature or painting, the female gender has been present, most of the time in the shadows, in the history of the city and our country. With the Free Tour of the Illustrious Women of Madrid , many of their efforts for change, progress and innovation in multiple fields in which they participated will come to light.
Auto de Fe in the Plaza Mayor of Madrid, (Francisco Rizi, 1683), Prado Museum, Madrid.
4.- Free Tour of the Inquisition in Madrid
Although the medieval inquisition was born in France and was a mechanism for the persecution of heresy applied harshly in the United Kingdom and in other countries with religions other than Catholic, the Inquisition Free Tour of Madrid focuses on that certainly dark aspect of our history.
The Holy Office, the Court of the Inquisition, the Autos de Fe, famous inquisitors (such as Tomás de Torquemada) and celebrities who had disagreements with the inquisition (such as Velazquez or the Count – Duke of Olivares) will be the common thread of this Free tour of the Inquisition through Madrid with which we will visit the Plaza Mayor, the Plaza de Santo Domingo or the Convento de la Encarnación, places from which we will learn more about their relationship with the Inquisition.
The Court of the Inquisition.
5.- Free Tour through Lavapiés and La Latina
Madrid is an open, welcoming city that welcomes people from other parts of Spain and also from other countries.
In the Barrio de la Latina is the Church of the Virgen de la Paloma, origin of one of the best-known popular festivals in Madrid. We will walk through the neighborhood with this Free tour of Lavapiés and La Latina to discover charming squares and medieval alleys.
Monument to Cervantes and statue of Don Quixote and Sancho, Plaza de España, Madrid.
6.- Free Tour of Cervantes
Madrid is the history of literature, with its great geniuses as inhabitants of the city at some point in their lives. With the Cervantes Free Tour we will learn more about the life and work of the most universal Spanish writer and we will visit some of the most outstanding points of the city in relation to his life and that of the cultural environment of the Golden Age and the Barrio de las Letras.
Bandstand of Bacchus, El Capricho Park, Madrid.
7.- Free Tour through the Parque del Capricho
Perhaps it is because it is not in the center of Madrid, perhaps it is because it is overshadowed by the enormous and neighboring Juan Carlos I Park (next to IFEMA, where FITUR is held every year), the fact is that this peculiar park is quite unknown even to people from Madrid We are going to remedy it with this Free Tour through the Parque del Capricho .
Parque del Capricho.
8.- Free Tour Crimes in Madrid
Every city has a black chronicle and in the Crimes in Madrid Free Tour they will tell you what the capital is like. With the trail of murderers and violence hidden by the facades of majestic or humble buildings, erased from memory by the passage of time, on this tour we will go through the streets where these macabre acts took place, and we will get to know better the personality of victims and executioners as well as the reason for their actions.
9.- Medieval Madrid Free Tour, the origins of Madrid
It may be that the Madrid of the Habsburgs, or that of the Bourbons, are the most striking a priori for their civil, religious and noble works, but to reach that point in history there was an almost unknown medieval Madrid. With this medieval Madrid, the origins of Madrid , we will learn about the foundations on which Imperial Madrid was built, in times of wars, conquests and struggles where religion was also a political weapon.
