Prado Museum
One of the world's greatest art galleries with a collection of over 5,000 paintings and sculptures. The building was constructed towards the end of the 18th century as a natural science museum near the Botanical Gardens.
The Prado has Spanish art (Goya and Velazquez), Italian Renaissance art (Titian, Fra Angelico, and Raphael), and Northern art (Durer, Rubens and Bosch).
Just a few of the works of art that we viewed were:
Francisco de Goya:
La Maja Desnuda
The Second of May
The Third of May
Saturn Devouring One of His Sons
Diego Velazquez:
Las Meninas
La Infanta Margarita de Austria
El Greco:
The Holy Trinity
The Resurection
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Palacio Real
This is Europe's third-greatest palace after Versailles and Schonbrunn. King Philip V commissioned the palace after the fortress on the site burned down in the 18th century. Philip was the grandson of Louis XIV. He was born in Versailles Palace and preferred speaking French. He wanted Palacio Real to be his own Versailles with over 2,000 rooms.
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