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7 most important Museums in Madrid: 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 Madrid as a tourist city worldwide is due to its great cultural offer of museums, and specifically, for its art galleries.

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

What are the most important museums in Madrid

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

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.

Thus Madrid 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 Madrid is to do it with the company of a tour guide, which en español 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.

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.

In the case of Prado Museum, here you can buy tickets in advance, which also ensures that you will not have 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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