Three museums are located very close together, shaped and known as the Paseo del Arte. They are the Museo del Prado, the Thyssen Bornemisza and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
The Prado Museum is considered by many experts as the first art gallery in the world, as it has the largest and most complete collection of sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with the best works of the Italian, Flemish and Spanish. In the Prado Museum you can finds works of artists such as Bosch, Rubens, Goya, Velazquez, Murillo, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Titian, Raphael, Watteau, Tintorretto, El Greco, Ribera, Zurbaran ... and much more that can be seen next to a magnificent collection of classical sculpture. The Prado Museum offers guided tours for private groups outside the public opening hours, which will make this visit memorable.
Thyssen Bornemisza Museum its a private collection museum,you will find a great variety of artist works and drawings such as Durer, Tintoretto, Degas, Kandinsky, Goya, Cezanne, Matisse, Dalí, Miró, Picasso and Renoir .
Ending the Paseo del Arte at the National Museum Reina Sofia Art Center, famous for hosting the Guernica of Picasso and his collection of contemporary paintings, mainly Spanish.
The importance of the three great galleries has unfairly overshadowed the richness and variety of museums that are in Madrid. If the you have enough time, you can choose among dozens of options. From other galleries of great interest as the Royal Academy of San Fernando, to local museums or theme, such as the Romantic Museum, the Railway Museum, Naval Museum, the Army Museum, the Museum of America, the National Archaeological Museum The National Museum of Natural Sciences, etc.
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