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Visit the Prado Museum with a digital audio guide and admire one of the most extensive art collections in the world.

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Prado Museum self-guided audio tour

Visit the Prado Museum at your own pace with this Vox City app. Let your smartphone guide you through the world's largest collection of Spanish art.

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Guided visit of the Prado and Reina Sofía museums

Visit two of the most important Spanish museums in Madrid, Prado and Reina Sofía. Admire the work from some of Spain's finest 20th-century artists.

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Guided visit and tickets to Prado Museum

Experience the Prado collections with express-ticket access and the services of an expert local guide. Save time and don't miss a thing!

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Madrid Prado Museum Ticket and In-App Audio Tour
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Madrid Prado Museum Ticket and In-App Audio Tour

Immerse yourself in art and history as you traverse the halls of one of the world's most esteemed museums with an in-app audio guide.

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Private half-day highlights tour of Madrid with Prado Tickets

Book a private half-day highlights tour of Madrid with Prado museum tickets included. Stroll along the boulevards to see iconic locations including the Plaza Mayor, Palacio Real and the Catedral de la Almudena.

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Monumental Madrid tour with Prado Museum and Royal Palace tickets

Explore Madrid with an expert guide and enter the Royal Palace and Prado Museu on this tour with tickets included.

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Prado Museum private tour with local expert guide
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Prado Museum private tour with local expert guide

Book this private tour to discover one of the world's finest collections of European art at the Prado Museum Madrid. Learn about the artwork with an expert guide.

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Guided tour in Spanish of the Prado Museum
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Guided tour in Spanish of the Prado Museum

Book a guided tour in Spanish of the Prado Museum and discover the history of the museum while you admire the works of art.

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Small-group guided tour to the Prado Museum in English
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Small-group guided tour to the Prado Museum in English

Book this Small-group guided tour to Prado Museum in English and enjoy a guided visit with an art historian and discover all the secrets of these famous paintings

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Prado Museum skip-the-line tickets and El Retiro Park guided tour

Visit the Prado Museum and save time with skip-the-line tickets. Discover Madrid's central park El Retiro and discover its celebrated monuments and hidden gems.

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Entrance tickets to the Prado Museum and tour with an expert guide

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The inside story

How many Mona Lisas are there? Of course, you’ll be familiar with Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece at the Louvre in Paris, but the Prado in Madrid also has a painting of the same woman that looks remarkably like the original. For a long time, people believed this fresh-looking painting was one of many later copies, but the truth is more interesting.

The belief now is that the Prado’s Mona Lisa is indeed a copy . . . but a copy that was made at exactly the same time as Leonardo’s picture and even in the same studio as the master observed. The painter was probably a young apprentice named Francesco Melzi. What he has given us is not only the earliest copy but also probably the best in existence.

Indeed, some might say that Melzi’s copy is better than the original. Leonardo’s Mona Lisa sits under glass in Paris and has not been cleaned or restored. It is dark with the grime of centuries. The Prado’s Mona Lisa, however, has been fully restored and shows the painting as Leonardo himself would have seen (and painted) it.

The lady in Paris will probably never be cleaned because she is too valuable. Her skin is cracked and her complexion is dirty. If you’d like to see her as a young, fresh woman, go to the Prado in Madrid.

Opening times

  • 10.00am-8.00pm – Monday to Sunday
  • 10.00am-7.00pm – Sundays and holidays
  • CLOSED: 1January, 1 May, 25 December
  • FREE: 6.00pm-8.00pm Monday to Saturday, 5.00pm-7.00pm Sundays and holidays

About the Prado

The Museo del Prado’s collections are the legacy of almost 200 years’ collecting by Spain’s sixteenth- and seventeenth-century kings and queens. This explains the quantity and quality of the treasures that include the world’s largest holdings of Bosch, Titian, El Greco, Rubens, Velázquez and Goya.

Importantly, these early collections had a strong influence on the direction of Spanish painting. An early affection for Titian, followed by Venetian painters such as Tintoretto, and Flemish artists like Rubens, set a pattern of richly colored canvasses that would guide Spanish painters such as Velazquez.

With the arrival of the Bourbon monarchy in the eighteenth century, the collections began to absorb French and Italian artworks – a pattern that ended almost a century later with the work of the Spanish painter Goya. By this time, Spain’s power was not what it had been and its own artists were working globally. The Church, too, had lost some power and the Prado received many of its great treasures into the collections.

The museum was first opened to the public in 1819 and became a source of inspiration for a whole new generation of painters, from the classic to the avant garde. It continues to inspire today.

Address

Museo Nacional del Prado, Paseo del Prado, Madrid

Getting there

  • By Metro
    • Red Line, L2: Banco de España
    • Light Blue, Line 1: Atocha (plus 10min walk)
    • 10, 14, 27, 34, 37, 45, N9, N10, N11, N12, N13, N14, N15, N17, N25: Prado-Pza Murillo
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How to get there

The Prado Museum Paseo del Prado, 28014 Madrid Madrid