Prado Museum Guided Tour – Skip The Line

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Prado Museum Guided Tour – Skip The Line

This afternoon guided-tour includes skip-the-line entry to one of the most visited museums in the world – the incredible Prado Museum!

Visit the famous Prado Museum which exhibits over 7600 paintings, 1000 sculptures and 8200 drawings as well as a great number of artistic pieces and historic documents setting out the history of Spain.

You can admire great masterpieces such as The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch, The Nobleman with his Hand on his Chest by El Greco, Las Meninas by Velandaacute;zquez and The Family of Carlos IV by Goya. Goya is in fact the most represented artist in the museum, and there are plenty of works by other genius artists: Diego Velandaacute;zquez, El Greco, Titian, Peter Paul Rubens and Hieronymus Bosch. The Royal Collection, donated by the rulers of Spain from the 1700s til today, is the heart of the whole museum.

The building that today houses the Museo Nacional del Prado was designed by architect Juan de Villanueva in 1785. It was King Ferdinand VII who turned the building into a National Museum of Painting and Sculpture, and whose legacy still continues today. Many of Spainandrsquo;s greatest masterpieces are contained here and itandrsquo;s an unmissable part of any visit to Madrid.