Guided tour of Las Sinsombrero in Madrid, 2 hours

The Sinsombreros, visionary artists and fighters shine again with their own light to have a complete vision of the Generation of 27. A guided tour through a legend that was not only in Madrid had great relevance.

The 1920s in Spain are inexorably associated with the most prosperous and prolific generation of artists and intellectuals of the 20th century: The so-called Generation of 27, also called the Silver Age, in memory of the great Spanish Golden Age. The generation of 27 is one of the most recognized signs of artistic identity in the cultural and social history of the country.

Members of this generation were Federico García Lorca, Luís Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, Rafael Alberti or Luis Cernuda, who have enjoyed (and still do today) great recognition and popularity, being the subject of studies both nationally and internationally. But the recognition of the Generation of 27 is only partial, since until a few years ago only the male components were referred to, although the women of this generation, the Sinsombrero, had a great creative and unifying importance of women.

Fortunately, little by little, the work of the women of 27 has begun to be recognized, in the shadows for decades, overshadowed by a masculine gaze of culture. The Sinsombreros are a generation of brave women, they are the first female generation that has made a step forward in history. The first generation of women who entered the artistic world without complexes.

Women who fought against the norms of their time, rebelling against the norms that marginalized them. Talented women, fighters, workers, visionaries, pioneers, but above all artists who had a decisive influence on art and thought, both Spanish and international, due to the fact that many of them lived in exile after the Civil War.

This group of women is known as the Sinsombrero, for having dared to take off their hats in public as a protest against the situation of women in society. The Civil War marked the end of the Generation of 27, but in the case of the sinsombrero, it also meant their condemnation to oblivion. Democracy was restored in Spain, the names of their male colleagues were recovered and extolled, while they continued in the shadows and in silence, losing their place, by right, within the official narrative of the Generation of 27 and therefore in the story.

María Teresa León, Ernestina de Champourcín, Rosa Chacel, Concha Méndez, Josefina de la Torre, María Zambrano, Maruja Mallo and Marga Gil Roësset are a representation of this group of artists and creators, who through this route we intend to bring out of oblivion so that their names along with their works shine again with the brilliance of the generation of 27, the so-called Silver Age of Spanish Art.

And this is just a brief part of everything we have to tell you in this guided tour of an unknown Madrid for a long time! Do you sign up to discover the history of the Sinsombrero through the female gaze of the Generation of 27?.

The visit will also be full of curiosities and anecdotes from the hands of our guide and expert in art and cultural heritage that will surprise you. A walking route through the streets of the Spanish capital that will delight young and old.