Tim Burton, Monica Bellucci’s ‘tour guide’ for Madrid: love for El Retiro and tribute on StreetXO

That Tim Burton and Monica Bellucci fell in love is already a great story. But that in the same week that we found out about this love (for Paris Match), the two protagonists visit Madrid is the most of the most. Burton and his universe take center stage wherever he goes. The very creator of Edward Scissorhands has landed in the capital, where the successful exhibition has been on display for months The labyrinth. In addition, this is not the only link that unites him with Madrid. Mayor Jose Luis Martinez-Almeida announced last year that it was going to grant the title of ambassador of the city to the filmmaker, artist, cartoonist, writer and producer, because “it enhances the image of Madrid”. Burton himself, during his visit to the metropolis in September on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition, dropped that it was “very likely” that in 2023 he would shoot in the streets of the town. In that same journey he passed through the anteater where he said he would not do “a romantic comedy”: “I don’t know anything about love”, he settled. He even stopped by the Bernabéu and posed with Butragueño, who gave him a Real Madrid shirt with his name on it. Little did we imagine that the next time he was going to visit us he would come accompanied by Bellucci.

No sooner said than done. The lovers have walked through the emblematic park of El Retiro, have enjoyed the flamenco night of Pol Vaquero in El Tablao de la Villa and have also savored the delicacies of Dabiz Muñoz in his StreetXO concept, as published Vanity Fair. This is the new space, located in El Corte Inglés on Calle Serrano, for the best chef in the world. The American and the Italian went to the dining room and enjoyed the renovated restaurant with a casual concept inspired by the kitchens of the streets of the world.

Muñoz himself, on his instagram, has declared his absolute admiration for the creator of Big Fish o Corpse Bride: “He is my creative guru. Unique and inimitable”, he wrote while visiting the exhibition The labyrinth.

the french magazine Paris Match has published that Burton and Bellucci have been in a relationship for four months. Both coincided in October 2022, at the 14th edition of the Lyon Lumière Film Festival, where the director was awarded and the actress gave him her distinction.