We celebrate St. Patrick's Day at Metro! You can enjoy traditional Irish music and dancing at Gran Vía station, performed by the UCD Dance Society. The station will also be lit up in green for the next few days and the entrance porticoes will be decorated with colourful shamrocks (the symbol of St. Patrick and Ireland). They will also decorate Callao station.

Tourism Ireland, the Irish Embassy and Metro de Madrid have presented the programme devoted to the Emerald Isle and its customs, closely linked to our Celtic roots. Artists Pavel Sfera and Steve Richards, who perform tributes to U2's Bono and The Edge, have surprised passengers to kick off Ireland Week in Madrid.

All these activities, which you can see in detail athttps://www.ireland.com/es-es/features/spain/semana-irlanda-madrid/,are an initiative of Tourism Ireland, with the support of the Embassy of Ireland.

This is not the first time that the Madrid underground has joined in the organisation of St. Patrick's Day. Last year, the Galician piper, Carlos Núñez, performed at the Plaza de España station. In 2023, there was a performance by Sharon Corr, a member of the band The Corrs, and San Bernardo station dyed its diamond emerald green and added "San Patricio" to its usual name.

Every 17 March, which coincides with the death of the country's patron saint in 461, millions of people take to the streets around the world to commemorate this day in his honour. In addition, green and clover are traditionally associated with the saint since, according to legend, he used this plant as a metaphor for the Holy Trinity when he introduced Christianity to the island.