Exterior facade of the Prado Museum, with columns, stairways, a lawn and small figures of visitors.

Prado Museum

Velázquez, Goya and Bosch fill a morning of close looking in a museum that works better with a selection of rooms than with haste.

  • Museums
  • Suggested time:2 to 3 h
  • Area:Paseo del Prado

About Prado Museum

Las Meninas, by Velázquez, puts you in front of a scene where looking and being watched become part of the game. Then swap court painting for Bosch's world in The Garden of Earthly Delights or for the works of Goya. The Prado rewards lingering in front of a few paintings.

Pick the artists who spark your curiosity and check the map. Two or three hours is a suggestion for a first visit, not a promise of exhausting the collection; to go deeper, add another morning.

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