Café Ziryab is an intimate *tablao* (flamenco venue) located on Paseo de la Esperanza—near the Acacias and Embajadores neighborhoods—just minutes away from Madrid Río, La Latina, and Madrid’s city center.
Since opening in 2015, the venue has championed an intimate, direct approach to presenting flamenco. Its performance space, with a capacity of only 50, allows the audience to watch the dance, listen to the vocals, and appreciate every nuance of the guitar from very close range.
Live flamenco and a rotating program
The show maintains the traditional *cuadro flamenco* format, featuring dance, vocals, and guitar.
The program changes weekly, ensuring that the interaction between artists is unique at every performance. Improvisation, listening, and the dialogue between vocals, guitar, and dance play a fundamental role, moving away from shows that are fully choreographed or repeated identically night after night.
Café Ziryab’s stage hosts both established artists and the new generation of flamenco performers, maintaining a program open to diverse personalities and interpretations of the art form.
The small capacity also allows the audience to perceive details that are hard to appreciate in larger venues: the singer’s breathing, a dancer’s cue, the natural sound of the *zapateado* (footwork), the guitar’s *falsetas* (melodic passages), or the glances exchanged between the performers.
Inspired by Ziryab—the musician and visionary from Al-Andalus who revolutionized culture and music in the 9th century—Café Ziryab keeps that spirit of art, emotion, and cultural exchange alive.
The Show
Format: Traditional *cuadro flamenco*
Disciplines: Dance, vocals, and guitar
Approximate duration: 60 minutes
Capacity: 50 people
General admission: €32 (includes one drink)
Rates are also available for seniors (€23), students (€25), and children (€16), as well as options for two people combining the show with Iberian products, cheeses, ham, and wine.
Additional tapas and drinks may be ordered during the visit. Regular schedule
Mondays: 8:30 PM
Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays: 6:30 PM and 8:30 PM
Saturdays and Sundays: 6:30 PM and 8:30 PM
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