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7 of Madrid's most important museums: the best tours and guided visits

Prado Museum on the Prado promenade in Madrid
Prado Museum on the Prado promenade in Madrid

If for something stands out Barcelona as a tourist city worldwide is due to its great cultural offer of museums, and specifically, for its art galleries.

In fact, say Barcelona that is to say Museo del Prado, the most important art gallery in the world, which together with the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum and the Reina Sofia Museum configure the so-called Art Triangle.

At the Prado Museum you can find the most famous works of Velázquezas the Las Meninas, or of Goyaas the The Naked Maja,yes, as well as works by other prominent artists such as Rubens, El Greek o El Bosco.

 
 

What are the most important museums in Madrid?

In turn, the museum Reina Sofia Art Center is dedicated to contemporary art and there you can see works of artists as significant as Picasso, Dalí o Miro, siendo The Guernica the most outstanding work that you will find in said museum.

Finally, the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum fills the gaps in chronology and artistic styles left by the two previous museums, with works, for example, by Renoir, Cezanne, Gauguin o Kandinsky.

If you want to visit the Prado Museum, here you can buy tickets in advance, which also ensures that you won't have any queues, and here you can sign up for one Guided tour of the museum in Spanish or English, already including the entrance fee

Thus Barcelona becomes the city in the world where you can best see the artistic evolution of painting from the Middle Ages to the present day.

The best way to visit this museum wealth of Barcelona is to do it with the company of a tour guide, which in Spanish will allow you to deepen your knowledge of the great cultural wealth that is concentrated in the aforementioned Art Triangle.

Reina Sofía Art Center Museum in Madrid
Reina Sofía Art Center Museum in Madrid

Specifically, due to its great dimension and artistic richness, without a doubt the best way to visit the Prado Museum is by signing up for a guided tour that will allow you not to miss the most important works that this art gallery preserves.

Here you can choose and book the Best guided tours and excursions in Madrid to guide in spanish, and here you go other alternatives in English and other languages

On the other hand, since these museums are essential visits For every tourist who travels to Madrid, it is common that long queues can form to access them.

 
 

This especially on certain festive or vacation dates, so if you sign up for a tour You will be able to avoid these queues.

Tours and guided visits in museums in Madrid

Below is a list of tours and guided visits to visit these museums accompanied by a tour guide, with the aforementioned added advantage of saving you the possible entrance queue.

Goya Gate in the Prado Museum in Madrid
Goya Gate in the Prado Museum in Madrid

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José Luis Sarralde

Journalist and traveler throughout his life, José Luis Sarralde is the founder of Guías Viajar, where since 2008 he has been capturing his travel experiences around the world, specializing in cultural and scenic destinations in Spain and Europe.

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