Madrid Museums

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  • Prado and Royal Palace
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  • Madrid Panoramic and Royal Palace
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  • Madrid Panoramic and the Prado Museum
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The Royal Palace (Palacio Real de Madrid) is the largest royal palace in Europe in existence today and one of Madrid ‘s main attractions. The palace is the official residence of the kings of Spain. However, now King Felipe VI does not live in it, and the palace is used for ceremonies and as one of the museums of Madrid.

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The Prado National Museum is one of the largest and most important museums of European fine art. Today the Prado has the most complete collection of works by Hieronymus Bosch, El Greco, Diego Velasquez and Goya. Here you can see paintings by such masters as Raphael, van Eyck, Rubens, Dürer, Titian and others. Among the latest acquisitions of the Prado Museum are paintings by Pieter Bruegel and Francisco Pacheco, painted in the XVI-XVII centuries.

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