TANDEM Cultural Program: Tour “cool neighborhoods”: Lavapiés: Tabacalera, Urban Art and Graffiti

Eager to discover the most unconventional and underground Madrid?

Lavapiés is a historical neighborhood more than 500 years old. Today it has become a melting pot of cultures and nationalities. Hundreds of places to discover other typical foods and cultures.

La Tabacalera is a space devoted to social transformation, art and culture which carries out exhibitions, concerts and lectures open to the public.

The space beneath has an amazing channel of tunnels with graffiti paintings all over their walls. These graffiti are abstract, humorous and have critical connotations. Beisdes, graffiti painters make more and more periodically.

This is for sure a really interesting area of Madrid both for locals and tourists who want to enjoy a different environment in the city. Madrid has many things, and it is plenty of urban art.

Join us and come discover Madrid!