Madridbabel, the friendliest meeting point in Madrid for people from all over the world

Fran Rodríguez Written 15 years ago

Founded in 2000, MADRIDBABEL® (www.madridbabel.com) is an international cultural exchange group that organizes activities in Madrid. Its main mission is to encourage and provide the opportunity to practice a wide range of languages amongst people from all over the world as well as create a comfortable venue to make new acquaintances in Madrid. Currently it has more than 16,000 members belonging to its different forums, the most important ones being at Yahoo (http://es.groups.yahoo.com/group/madridbabel) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19732127016). A detailed program of activities is published on these pages on a weekly basis.

Madridbabel organizes two weekly international encounters:

- Wednesdays starting at 21.30 at Café Madrid (c/ Escalinata s/n - metro Opera)
- Sundays starting at 19.00 at The Quiet Man (c/ Valverde, 44 - metro Tribunal).

The environment is friendly and welcoming and there is no entrance fee. Fran Rodríguez Veiga – creator and leader of the group from Madrid – and his collaborators are there to introduce people who share common interests and/or languages and help create a comfortable welcome for newcomers. These events usually attract about 200 participants - students to professionals, 20 to 50 years old, from about 30 different nations-.

In addition to the two weekly encounters, Madridbabel organizes many other events in Madrid and surroundings areas. These include going to original version films (with subtitles in Spanish) every other Friday, international dinners and tapas at a variety restaurants and bars, excursions, sports, cultural visits, etc. There are also parties with an international flare which usually attract over 600 people.

Madridbabel also works with a quality room finding and estate agency in Madrid with special prices for carefully selected furnished flats and rooms in well connected areas of the city. An excellent relocation service is also available. Furthermore, it also offers a large selection of language courses all around the world.

Madridbabel collaborates with a variety of entities as well as creates links to other similar international groups including the first partner groups known as Montpellierbabel and Torontobabel. More will follow.

Finally, as an international and healthy group, Madridbabel has adopted the slogan: \'We are international, please don’t smoke ;-)\'

For further information please contact [email protected]