Museo Nacional del Prado

The building of the main art Museum of Spain stretches for more than 200 meters along the Prado Boulevard (on the map). The main entrance to the Museum .

Madrid. Prado Museum (Museo Nacional del Prado)

In front of the Northern facade and the main entrance to the Museum, visitors are always attracted by the monument of Franco Goya by sculptor Mariano Benllure y Gil, the author of the pedestal is the architect Vicente Lamperes Romea, the monument was opened in 1902.

Madrid. Monument To Franco Goya

Church Of San Jeronimo.

Madrid. Church Of San Jeronimo

Sculpture "Artist for the Prado" (Un pintor para el Prado, 1989), By Julio lópez hernández.

Madrid. Sculpture Artist for the Prado (Un pintor para el Prado)
Madrid. At the Prado Museum

On the lawns around the Museum in warm weather, there are always many people who like to lie on the grass.

Madrid. At the Prado Museum Madrid. At the Prado Museum

Now visitors enter the Museum not by the stairs of the main entrance, but through a large modern hall attached to the Church of St. Jerome.

Madrid. At the Prado Museum

The southern facade of the Museum overlooks the small green square of Murillo.

Madrid. From Murillo Square (Plaza Murillo)

In the center of the square there is a monument to the great Spanish artist 17 dedicated to Bartolome Esteban Murillo, the square also bears his name.

Madrid. Monument To Bartolome Esteban Murillo

The bronze sculpture was made in 1859 by Sabino Medina y Peñas, a granite pedestal by the architect Gonzales Pescador.

Madrid. From Murillo Square (Plaza Murillo)

In the evening, along the Museum building, a large queue of people who want to join the beautiful free of charge is formed. From 18:00 entrance to the Prado Museum is free and you have about two hours to explore the masterpieces. This, of course, is very small, and with a free ticket there is no access to some halls.

Madrid. Prado Museum (Museo Nacional del Prado)

I usually arrived in half an hour, the queue was already halfway up the building, however, in the launch is fast and I was usually already in the Museum at 18: 10.

Madrid. Prado Museum (Museo Nacional del Prado)

So I've been to the Prado twice in may and once in October, so I'll probably have to come early in the summer.

Madrid. Prado Museum (Museo Nacional del Prado)