How to Visit the Museo del Prado: Tickets, Hours, and a Plan
A practical guide to visiting the Museo del Prado in Madrid: tickets, opening hours, the free evening slot, how the building is laid out, and how to plan a visit.
A practical guide to visiting the Museo del Prado in Madrid: tickets, opening hours, the free evening slot, how the building is laid out, and how to plan a visit.
What to see at the Museo del Prado: the dozen masterpieces, from Bosch and Goya to Titian and Durer, that you should not leave Madrid without standing in front of.
Titian's Equestrian Portrait of Charles V shows the most powerful man in Europe alone on a horse at dawn, and invented the heroic ruler-on-horseback image.
Goya's Third of May 1808 painted a faceless firing squad executing a man in a white shirt with his arms thrown wide, and invented the modern image of war.
Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights is a painted triptych of paradise, a naked human carnival, and a music-powered hell, and nobody is sure what it means.
At twenty-six, Albrecht Durer painted himself in Italian silk and fur with his name and a date, the first Western artist to make a self-portrait this self-aware.
The Roman Forum is a half-buried timeline of the city that ran the western world for eight hundred years. A Roman Forum audio guide reading the ruins in sequence from the Capitoline to the Palatine.
Versailles was built to move the French nobility out of Paris and into a single building Louis XIV could watch. A Palace of Versailles audio tour through the Hall of Mirrors, the gardens, and the politics the scale was meant to broadcast.
Gaudí died in 1926 with the Sagrada Familia roughly one-quarter built. A Sagrada Familia audio guide to the basilica that has been under construction for one hundred and forty-four years and is finally close to finished.
The Alhambra is the last Moorish palace in Spain and the only one a Christian emperor decided to keep. A self-guided Alhambra audio tour through the Nasrid Palaces, the Generalife gardens, and the Renaissance palace grafted onto them.