CALLAO CITY LIGHTS
Event Spaces Rental, Large Format Digital Advertising Screens and Cinema.
Callao City Lights is the company that manages the emblematic Callao Cinemas, where the most relevant film premieres and events in Madrid take place.
Callao City Lights is also one of the most representative places for large format digital outdoor advertising.
We offer you a multipurpose venue to personalise according to your event’s requirements. As an added value, we offer you the possibility of having the Plaza del Callao as a prelude to the action, and dressing the building with your brand name.
We are also pioneers in large format digital outdoor advertising in urban centres. We have two giant digital screens (102 m² and 130 m²), in the most visited square in Spain (150 million people per year) and the third one most frequented in Europe. Our platforms are equipped with the latest technology (3D, augmented reality, interactivity, synchronisation, live broadcasts, retargeting mobile…) and have an unprecedented image quality.

ADVERTISING SCREENS
The Callao Cinemas are pioneers in large format digital outdoor advertising in city centres, thanks to the 2 giant screens located on the facades of the building from 2011. These supports were renovated in 2019 to place us, once again, at the technological innovation forefront.
EVENTS
The Cines Callao are also a privileged place for the celebration and organization of all kinds of events (presentations, press conferences, awards ceremonies, fashion shows, parties, corporate dinners, etc.). Due to its modern and versatile facilities with the latest technology in sound, image and lighting.
CINEMA AND FILM PREMIERES
The latest releases and the best cinema listings. Located in the Plaza del Callao, the heart of Madrid, Callao Cinemas are a reference point in the celebration of cinematographic events. The biggest national and international cinema stars of the last decades have walked on its red carpet.
A CINEMA HISTORY
Built in 1926 by Luis Gutiérrez Soto, the historic building of Callao Cinemas is the highest example of the capital’s Art Deco architecture. It was launched as a cinema on December 11th of the same year, with the film ‘Luis Candelas, el bandido de Madrid’.
A legendary building
The cinema was designed in the purest American style of the time, without aristocratic boxes and with a full view from all its seats, then 1.300. Its terrace housed a summer cinema until the Civil War outbreak r in 1936.
The building’s basement, designed to house a cabaret, was turned into a billiard room with 32 tables and an American bar, a collective dining room during the Civil War, a night club in the 1980s and a cinema from 1998 onwards.
Since then, the building contains two halls (with maximum capacity around 1.200 spectators) and has incorporated the latest advances in sound, image and lighting.
OUR CHRONOLOGY
Callao City Lights, a film story to be lived

Luis Gutiérrez Soto designs the historic building of Callao Cinemas, the maximum art déco exponent architecture in the capital.
1926

1926
It opened as a cinema on 11 December of the same year, with the film ‘Luis Candelas, el bandido de Madrid’.

1929
The first cinema in Spain to show a sound and spoken film, ‘El cantor de jazz’, on the 13th of June 1929.

1930
The pioneers to show the first film shot in Spanish in Hollywood, ‘El cuerpo del delito’.

1935
The first ones to release a colour film, ‘Becky Sharp’.

1952
And the first ones to show a 3D film (in relief), ‘Bwana, Devil’.

1980
The cinema opens on its underground floor the famous Xenon night club.

1998
Callao Cinemas’ Room 2 inauguration.

2011
Two large-format digital screens replace the old outdoor cinema posters that advertised the films.

2017
We launched our Augmented Reality platform. The most advanced one in the market.

2019
We renew our outdoor advertising displays with the latest LED technology generation.

2020
The 3D technology arrives to our outdoor screens. A technological innovation for the DOOH never seen before in Spain.
OUR VALUES
COMMITMENT
INNOVATION
QUALITY AND SERVICE
FLEXIBILITY
OUR LATEST CSR ACTIONS
CALLAO CITY LIGHTS JOINS EARTH HOUR
MARCH 2021 CSR ACTIONS ON OUR SCREENS CALLAO CITY LIGHTS JOINS EARTH HOUR Once again this year, Callao City Lights has participated in Earth Hour, the WWF initiative that aims to raise public awareness of the need to protect Nature and combat climate change. Even...
CALLAO CITY LIGHTS: AN ECO FRIENDLY COMPANY
MARCH 2021 CALLAO CITY LIGHTS CSR ACTIONS CALLAO CITY LIGHTS: AN ECO FRIENDLY COMPANY Callao City Lights is an eco-friendly company involved in caring for the environment. An awareness that goes back years, when in 2011 the first DOOH (Digital Out of Home) screens...
CALLAO CITY LIGHTS HOSTS THE CLIMATE LEADERS AWARDS CEREMONY
MARCH 2021 EVENTS IN OUR SPACECALLAO CITY LIGHTS HOSTS THE CLIMATE LEADERS AWARDS CEREMONY The Callao Cinemas were the venue chosen by The Climate Reality Project Europe for the third edition of the Climate Leaders Awards, awards with which this organisation,...
OUR COLLABORATIONS
OUR SPONSORSHIPS
Callao City Lights actively participates and collaborates with the advertising industry.
GORKA PAGAZAURTUNDUA (CALLAO CITY LIGHTS) OPENS THE 5TH OUTDOOR ADVERTISING FORUM – DOOHCINES CALLAO OPEN THEIR DOORS SAFELY AGAINST COVID19
OCTOBER 2020 Actions on our Screens GORKA PAGAZAURTUNDUA (CALLAO CITY LIGHTS) OPENS THE 5TH OUTDOOR ADVERTISING FORUM - DOOH Organised by 'La Publicidad', this industry meeting was attended by several speakers, including Gorka Pagazaurtundua, Commercial Director...
CALLAO CITY LIGHTS, HOSTS THE VI PROGRAMMATIC ADVERTISING FORUM ORGANIZED BY LA PUBLICIDAD
SEPTEMBER 2020 Our Corporate Events CALLAO CITY LIGHTS, HOSTS THE VI PROGRAMMATIC ADVERTISING FORUM ORGANIZED BY LA PUBLICIDAD Last Tuesday, September 22nd, Callao City Lights hosted the VI Programmatic Advertising Forum organized by La Publicidad. The event,...
LA PUBLICIDAD CELEBRATES IN CALLAO THE IV FORUM OF OUTDOOR ADVERTISING DOOH
SEPTEMBER 2019 Actions on our screens LA PUBLICIDAD CELEBRATES IN CALLAO THE IV FORUM OF OUTDOOR ADVERTISING DOOH A meeting attended by more than 700 professionals from the advertising and marketing sector and in which speakers from different companies spoke about...
ASSOCIATIONS WE ARE INVOLVED IN
Callao City Lights certifies the quality of its services following the most demanding regulations on the advertising and business sector.
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If you have any questions, please contact us at publicidad@callaocitylights.es, eventos@callaocitylights.es or fill this form and we will get in touch as soon as possible.
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Fuencarral Street, 123. 2º 28010 Madrid, Spain.
Phone number: +34 915 913 090