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Madrid attractions: the Prado Museum, Spain

 
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Prado Museum is included in the top 10 most beautiful museums in the world. It was inaugurated in 1819. The museum is located in a building from the time of Charles The third.

This building houses the most interesting collections of European art. Even if it was founded as a museum of sculpture and painting it has besides the 8600 paintings and 700 sculptures: 5000 drawings, 2000 posters, 1000 coins and about 2000 decorative objects.

Among the great artists who have exhibited works in this museum we can remember the following: Goya, Velasquez, Ribera, Titian, Boticelli, Tintoretto, Durer and Poussin, Murillo, Zurbaran, El Greco. The most famous work of art you can find here is "Las Meninas" by Velasquez.

 

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A visit to Santiago Bernabeu stadium - Jun 23, 2009, by Tudi
The gallery above is from April 2008, during my trip through Spain. I ended up in Madrid for a couple of days, visiting some friends, without any real travelling plan. As a football fan though, it's hard to visit Madrid and not feel the... Read more »

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