Prado Museum

When
Call for Details: +34 91 330 2800
Where
Calle Ruiz de Alarcón 23.
More Information
Official Site

Description

The Prado museum opened in 1819 in the reign of King Ferdinand VII and is known as the royal museum of painting and art. Over the years the Prado has become one of the world most important museum housing some 8600 paintings from some of the world’s best know masters such as Reuben’s, Van Dyck, Velázquez, El Greco, Murillo and Goya, Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese and Bassano to name just a small number.

You will also find 700 sculptures about 500 drawings, 2000 engravings, about 2000 pieces of decorative art and more than 900 medals and coins. So you well not get board and it may take you more than a day to take it all in. the collection is housed in two buildings the Villanueva building in the Paseo del Prado, and the Casón del Buen Retiro.

Open: Tuesday-Sunday and public holidays*: 9am to 8pm.

How to get there:

• Buses: 9, 14, 19, 27, 34, 37, 45
  
• Metro/underground: Banco de España, Line 2
  
• Renfe: Atocha station
  
• Car park: Plaza de las Cortes

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