Prado Museum (Museo del Prado) Madrid

¡Hola y Bienvenidos a españa! ¿What was that; you don't speak Spanish? Oh well,l I guess we'll have to blog in English (and on a keyboard I've used before in Peru!). So Zack and I had a very smooth trip from Munich to Spain when compared to my parent's trip from San Francisco to Madrid. We arrived at our hotel at 2am on the 6th of …

Customs was a breeze!
Checked into my hostel and took a short nap while waiting for mi amiga to arrive.

A quick empanada and then to the Museo del Prado.
Goya, Rafael, Carvaggio was my favorite. Never imagined there could be so many illustrations of the Crucifixion by so many artists here in Espana. Wow! Velazquez was impressive as …

This weekend was a long weekend, we didn’t have school on Friday thanks to the feast of the patron saint of the Universidad Complutense. Instead of traveling on my long weekend, I decided to spend some quality time with Madrid. Friday morning I was up and at ‘em kind of early (like 11am, that’s early for both me and the city …

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This past weekend I went with my cousin Bridget (who is also studying in Rome) to visit our cousin Elizabeth and her family in Madrid. It was so nice to just hang around with family. I got to eat peanut butter and bake chocolate chip cookies!!

We arrived on Thursday night. The flight there was fine-however there was …

NEVER stay in Hostel Sol. Disgusting. Incredibly far from everything. Mad. Sketch.

Go on the Free Tour ASAP - basically afterwards you'll have a feel for the city and know what things you most want to see or go back to.

Fabulous Tapas: Kaixo

Favorite Museum: Reina Sofia (free 7pm-9pm M, W, Th, F, 2:30pm-9pm on Sat, and …

Madrid is the capital city of Spain and I would say it is a European New York City, they look very similar. Our self proclaimed 'epic adventure' began at the crack of dawn with no sleep, which segued into our 'world famous hostel.' We walked into a construction zone, literally. The hostel is being renovated and it was a mess! We also spent a few …

After a beautiful sleep in we caught the metro into the city centre. Feeling hungry, we bought crepes for breakfast. My crepe had way too much jam on it, but it was still delicious. We headed towards the Prado Museum while eating, and picked up a yummy vanilla frape on the way. The museum was massive and we only had time to see a few select rooms …

It turns out that Madrid is a very walkable city. All of the main things to see are within about 1 sq mi of each other, and this time we are staying right there in the middle of everything.

We are choosing to do this trip the Madrilenos way (when in Madrid...), and so we started our day just after noon. The goal was to complete the "Old …

Having seen most of what there is to see of the city, at least from the outside, we took Sunday to do the rest of what you are supposed to do in Madrid - see art. Madrid has at least three world class art museums - the Prado, the Reina Sofia, and the Thyssen - and the recent addition of Caixa Forum may add a fourth.

In keeping with our …

When I finished my primary school I was 11. My parents proposed me to live my first experience abroad, at home of my dad's best friends family. I remember I really didn't take my time to decide, I just said YES!!

I was on a plane with a hostess who was actually taking care of me, as I was alone. She used to go and come back to check on me …

... . But it can be pretty fun, so you should try it out one day! So this public holiday Monday I bring my camera and head for the famous Prado Museum. Being a Monday, the Prado is of course closed, so I head over to the botanical garden instead. In my early ...

I was very sad to see Nick go, but he had to head back to Australia, and I headed to Madrid. Madrid was lovely though, with temperatures in the mid 30´s. I visited the Prado museum, which had a good Picasso exhibition. The Buen Retiro Park was also ...

... plan this any regular day; I wanted it to be perfect so I waited for the right day. We woke up today and decided to finally visit the Prado Museum. We waited for Sophie to come home from the art course she's taking so she'd accompany us. When she ...

... of its culinary excellence in Europe but because it's easy. As an interesting juxtaposition, we followed that up with 4 hours in the Prado Museum. Bosch and El Greco until we were bloodshot. What a great museum. And our 2 months in Italy has paid off. Or ...

... were here only for a few days and we were quite tired. Thus, we consoled ourselves with making the best of Madrid by visiting the Prado museum, which is world-class. We also roamed the city´s downtown core and the excellent Parque del Buon Retiro. ...

... or two from these guys. Because of the Real Madrid boys, it kind of fucked the rest of the day. We took a walk over to the Prado museum, but there was no hope of getting in. The line was even longer than the Palace one, so we decided to walk some ...

... one is El Jardin de las Delicias, h. 1500 by El Bosco.  You can check that one out as well on the Prado Museum website.  AND, last but not least are the more surreal paintings by El Greco. Two anecdotes before signing off Spain:  as we ...

... to stay: Hostal Lopez, Calle de las Huertas, 54. Immaculately clean and just a few minutes walk from the Prado Museum and in the most happening street in Madrid. (Take your ear plugs if you want to sleep before 4am) Paul loves Spain - firstly Leeds ...

... I had turned the camera, so you can just fast-forward through that section if you like.] If you do go to Madrid, visit the Prado museum! It is a great collection, especially their large El Greco room. I didn't give it enough time because I had to ...

... us. So check that out if you're here on Sunday, plus everything else is closed then. Then we checked out the Prado Museum, after McDonalds, which is now my second favorite art museum in Europe behind the Musee D'Orsey in Paris. The Prado is full of ...