Overview
- Shakira launched the 12‑date Madrid residency on Friday, September 18, staging the finale of her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran world tour at Macondo Park, a temporary Iberdrola Music complex built around an ephemeral stadium.
- Critics and attendees praised a high‑energy, roughly two‑and‑a‑half hour set that mixed classics and newer material and framed the residency as an immersive cultural project with eight themed pavilions.
- Opening‑night operations exposed entry and exit bottlenecks, long queues and local congestion that left some fans waiting to access the park and prompted officials to say the mobility device could be adjusted for later dates.
- Municipal and transit measures in place include late‑night reinforcements on Metro lines 3 and 12, a free EMT electric shuttle from Gran Vía de Villaverde to Atocha (stopping at Legazpi) roughly 23:00–02:00, limited on‑site parking of 648 ordinary and 22 accessible spaces, and possible closures of some M‑45 access points.
- Organizers and promoters are operating at large commercial scale with per‑night attendance reported between about 50,000 and 57,000, official VIP hospitality packages sold up to €1,291, and the residency scheduled across four weekends through 11 October as part of a month of cultural programming.