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We invent no events. Here is where each one comes from, with its licence and what it lets us do with its text.

Last reviewed: 26 September 2026 · Version 1.1

Where each event comes from

We invent no CityVibe event. They all come from these sources, and every event page says which. Here is the full list, with its licence and — because it matters — what each one lets us do with its text.

Madrid City Council — open data

esMadrid — Madrid Destino

  • Data: the city of Madrid's tourist listings, in seven languages.
  • Link: esmadrid.com/opendata (opens in a new tab).
  • Licence: the feed declares none. It is governed by the “Condiciones Madrid Destino” published in Madrid's open data catalogue.
  • Attribution: “esMadrid.com — Ayuntamiento de Madrid”.
  • Text: we publish it and translate it; we do not retell it.
  • Photographs: no. The applicable terms expressly exclude “any use for commercial purposes”. No copy, no hotlink, no thumbnail. Linking to the event's page on esmadrid.com, always.

Junta de Castilla y León — cultural listings

  • Data: cultural listings for the nine provinces; updated every four hours.
  • Link: datosabiertos.jcyl.es (opens in a new tab).
  • Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) (opens in a new tab).
  • Attribution: “Origen de los datos: Junta de Castilla y León”.
  • Text: we publish it, translate it and retell it in our own words — their legal notice literally allows “modification, adaptation […] transformation”, on condition that the meaning of the information is not distorted.
  • Photographs: no. Their legal notice reserves acquired multimedia material for exclusive use, and their “robots.txt” disallows the path where the images live.
  • Contact phone numbers: the field exists at source; our adapter does not read it.

Diputació de Barcelona — Agendes

  • Data: municipal theatres, libraries, museums and tourism in some 150 municipalities around Barcelona (Sabadell, Terrassa, Badalona, L'Hospitalet, Santa Coloma, Granollers, Manresa, Vic, Sant Cugat, Cornellà…).
  • Link: do.diba.cat (opens in a new tab).
  • Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) (opens in a new tab) — declared by the feed itself, in every response.
  • Attribution: “Origen de los datos: Diputació de Barcelona”.
  • Text: we publish it and translate it faithfully alongside the original; we do not retell it, because their terms ask “que el contingut de la informació no sigui alterat”.
  • Photographs: no. Nothing in their terms grants them to us.
  • Contact emails and phone numbers: the “email” and “telefon_contacte” fields are filled in for most records and our adapter does not read them at all. They are the details of specific people working in municipal facilities, not information about the event.

Ticketmaster

  • Data: concerts and shows with tickets on sale.
  • Link: developer.ticketmaster.com (opens in a new tab).
  • Terms: those of their partner API.
  • Text: we publish it and translate it; we do not retell it.
  • Purchase links may carry affiliate parameters. That does not change the price you pay and it is how the project sustains itself.

Our own editing

Some events we add by hand, or organisers send them to us. In those cases we are the source and it is stated just the same.

How we treat what we collect

  • Public event information only. Our data model has not a single field for the email, phone number or name of a contact person. Fields we do not recognise are rejected, not kept “just in case”.
  • We clean up free text. Before storing anything we strip out the email addresses and mobile numbers sources sometimes leave inside a description. Box office numbers and freephone lines stay: they are public business details, and removing them would spoil the very information we exist to give.
  • We translate with the help of a language model. That model receives the event's title and description, already cleaned, and nothing else. Not one piece of data about any user.
  • We always credit. Every event page carries the name of its source, the link to the original and, when the source declares one, the name and link of its licence — which is exactly what clause 3(a)(1) of CC BY 4.0 (opens in a new tab) requires.

If you run one of these sources

If you are responsible for any of this data and you want us to change the attribution, to stop using something, or to talk about a better arrangement: alexandr.shurigin@gmail.com (opens in a new tab). We answer.

And if you publish listings that are not here yet and you would like them to be, write to us too.