The Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid rents out part of its 15,000 m² building for private and corporate events, from a seated dinner for 420 guests to a standing reception for 750. The venue stands at Calle de Alcalá 42, where Alcalá meets Gran Vía, a few steps from Cibeles and the Banco de España.
Seminars and company events
The building offers a range of rooms for meetings, conferences and company gatherings. The theatre, named Teatro Fernando de Rojas, and the Cine Estudio suit presentations and plenary sessions. Four multipurpose rooms with views over the city work for workshops, breakouts and smaller meetings. A boardroom, the Sala de Juntas, is also on the list of rooms. The Salón de Baile seats 280 guests in theatre layout, which makes it the largest option for a general assembly or a congress.
The venue states that it provides an integrated service for events, with audiovisual equipment and catering available as additional services. An organiser can therefore handle the room, the technical set-up and the food through a single contact.
Rooms and capacities
The official rental page lists these spaces: Azotea (the rooftop), Cine Estudio, Fuentecilla, Sala Ana María Matute, Sala Antonio Palacios, Sala de Columnas, Sala de Juntas, Sala María Moliner, Sala María Zambrano, Sala Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Sala Valle-Inclán, Salón de Baile and Teatro Fernando de Rojas. They are spread over several floors, from level -1 up to level 7.
The Salón de Baile is the main historic room. It covers 800 m² under a ceiling 10 m high. The venue gives three capacities: 750 people for a cocktail, 420 for a banquet and 280 in theatre layout. It adds that the maximum depends on the format of the event. The room has hosted concerts, fashion shows, dinners, congresses, exhibitions and film shoots, and it is where the annual Baile de Máscaras takes place. The Sala de Columnas is the second historic room of the building.
The building also contains four exhibition rooms and a billiards and games room. Capacities for the other rooms are not published on the page we read, so ask the events team for figures by layout.
Catering
Catering is offered by the Círculo as part of its global event service. The cafeteria La Pecera is part of the building, but the official page does not say whether it can be hired for private events.
History and setting
The Círculo de Bellas Artes is a cultural institution that runs exhibitions, a theatre, a cinema, courses and a members' community in the same building. Its rooms are used daily for culture, and external events are booked around that programme. The rooftop terrace, called Azotea, is one of the spaces that can be requested.
Getting there
The address is Calle de Alcalá 42, 28014 Madrid, in the centre of the city, at the meeting point of Alcalá and Gran Vía. Cibeles and the Banco de España are a short walk away.
To enquire about a date, the external events team can be reached by email at eventosexternos@circulobellasartes.com or by phone.
