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Stop At: Prado National Museum, Calle Ruiz de Alarcon 23, 28014 Madrid Spain

The building that today houses the Prado national museum was designed by architect Juan de Villanueva in 1785. It was constructed to house the Natural History Cabinet, by orders of King Charles III.

The Museum's first catalogue, published in 1819, included 311 paintings, although at that time its collection comprised just over 1,510 pictures from the various Reales Sitios (Royal Residences). The exceptionally important royal collection, which represents the foundation of the Museum's compilation as we know it today, increased significantly in the 16th century during the time of Charles V and continued to thrive under the succeeding Habsburg and Bourbon Monarchs.

The visit will take place in chronological order,
- Starting with the exhibit hall where we will find J. Bosch’ masterpieces (El Bosco) (1450-1516): The Table of the 7 Deadly Sins, The Hay Wain, The temptations of San Antonio, The Stone of Madness and The Garden of Delights.
- We will then move on to the rooms dedicated to El Greco (1540-1614): The gentleman's hand on his chest, The Trinity, Christ embraced the cross and The Annunciation;
- Velázquez (1599-1660): The Worship, Drunkards, Equestrian Portraits, the Forge of Vulcan, The Christ, The spinners, Spears and Las Meninas.
- We will end with Goya (1746-1828): The family of Carlos IV Pictures, The Shootings of May 2, Pestles and Black Paintings.

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

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Included

English/Spanish Official guide.
Entrance and guided tour to Prado Museum. The ticket is valid for 1 day, until closing time.
Individual radioguided system
Monolingual guided tour (from April to October); Bilingual guided tour (from November to March).
Entry/Admission - Prado National Museum

Not included

Hotel pickup and drop-off
Food and drinks
Gratuities

Additional

Confirmation will be received at time of booking, unless booked within 3 days of travel. In this case confirmation will be received within 48 hours, subject to availability
This tour operates with a maximum of 20 people
On rare occasions, Prado Museum may be closed with little notice due to private functions taking place; impacted bookings will be offered an alternative date to visit or a full refund
Operated by a bilingual guide in Spanish and English
Not wheelchair accessible
Near public transportation
Infants must sit on laps
Please keep in mind that the excursion includes several visits on foot
Prado Museum visitors are kindly requested to respect the instructions of the Museum Security: Photography and filming are not permitted inside the exhibitions.
Most travelers can participate
It is possible that some of the paintings that are in our program were not available, despite belonging to the permanent collections of the three museums, because it was assigned for some exhibition, in this case, would be replaced by another painting with a similar artistic value.
Failure to show up at the established check-in time may entail losing the tour.

Features

Cultural

100%

Tourism

90%

Reviews

3.7

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Katrina H

3 | 2019-07-29

Met at 8.30am at Julia’s travel - didn’t walk down until 9.10am - entered at 9.25am - rapid tour so we could meet ‘timelines’ and finished at 10.20am. Farewelled our guide and visited the Royal Armoury (very good but everything in Spanish no English and no audioguides) and Cathedral (modern / average) - finished at 11.30.

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thomas m

5 | 2019-07-24

Terrific tour, much better than the one we took at Louvre. Our guide Macarena was informative and amusing. She picked a nice selection of paintings and gave interesting insights into each. Plus the technology worked well.

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Patrice W

1 | 2019-07-09

We were met by the guide called Myriam (if I heard well). Although here English was good she spoke with such a strong Spanish accent that what she said was mostly unintelligible. She spoke like a robot reciting her text, she did not connect the group she was leading. Besides the communication system she used was a catastrophe: she spoke in a mike too close to her mouth and the earpieces we were given were having a lot of static noise. On top of that the earpiece only feeds into one ear, so the other ear gets all the surrounding noise, which make it even harder to understand the guide. No one gave her a tip in view of this bad service

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Carolyn E

4 | 2019-07-03

Enjoyed the tour itself. But some people were unclear on meeting spot and our guide had to hunt them down and we were late starting.

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adrossner

5 | 2019-07-03

We took this tour of the Prado Museum with Isabella. We do not usually enjoy this type of art, but felt we needed to go to the Prado Museum while in Madrid. She is a wealth of knowledge on the history of Spain, the classics and how the great artists influenced pop artists such as Piscasso and Dali. The 2 hour tour flew by. I wish we could have spent more time at the museum with Isabella.

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James T

5 | 2018-07-24

Without question, the Prado is one of the world's greatest museums. What made my visit so much more was the tour guide. She was very knowledgeable, friendly, interesting and interested in making sure the tour (of 3, including me) a memorable experience.

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Kimberly D

5 | 2018-07-15

We enjoyed our tour. Beautiful museum and city. Our director was informative and gave much information about the artists and their works.

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Tracey D

5 | 2018-04-29

Great tour! Isabella, our tour guide, was so knowledgeable and really made our experience at the Prado an amazing one!

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