Our
tours
Madrid
Each
year during the Feast of Corpus Christi, the famed autos sacramentals
take over the town as the streets of Madrid
are transformed into a carnival. Insightful and moving, these morality
plays are performed on two-story-high wagons called carros
that travel the city’s streets. Humans, saints, devil, and
God mingle with such symbolic figures as Sin, Grace, and Pleasure
as you mingle with the crowds and sample the delights of Spanish
cuisine. But the productions aren’t all serious–the stages
also present farces and dancing.
For
year-round entertainment, Madrid has the Corral de la Cruz and the
Corral del Principe, theaters built in the classic Italian style.
Besides visits from commedia troupes (see Venice),
these theaters feature plays by Spanish playwrights. One to watch–promising
newcomer Lope de Vega.
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