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Prado Museum, Madrid

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Prado Museum, Madrid
Photo: Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo / Formerly attributed to Diego Velázquez, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

One of the world's great art museums, with the finest collection of Spanish painting: Velázquez's Las Meninas, Goya's 'black paintings' and The Third of May 1808, and El Greco, alongside Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights, Titian, Rubens and Rembrandt.


Book a ticket online. Entry is free for the last two hours of each day, with a long queue. The Reina Sofía, with Picasso's Guernica, and the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum are both nearby on the 'Paseo del Arte', and the Retiro park is just behind.

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