3 Madrid main Museums + Strolls in Old Madrid -...

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We offer to our Madrid travellers a great, leisurely walking tour of Madrid’s classic city center, with a visit to the Royal Palace, as well as the Prado, Thyssen Bornemisza and Reina Sofía museums.

Let's spend the day with us for a comprehensive immersion into Madrid's finest artistic and urban treasures. Our licensed guides share very interesting facts about each site that are seldom found in regular guide books or audioguides about Madrid Tours.

The Tour begins with a pleasant stroll around Old Madrid from the place the city was founded by the Arabs of the Omeya Empire. You will learn why the Arabs chose Madrid as their location to build a fortification and learn about the importance of Madrid’s hills.

We will continue with the visit of the Royal Palace of Madrid, which is just beside the spot where the Omeyas built the old fortress of ''Madj-rit'',which is just beside the place where the Omeyas built the old fortress. This magnificent royal residence of Madrid is a wonderful example of the finest Italian Architectural Style of the 18th. century. Its decoration is a compendium of the different fashions in decorative types during the periods of the first 7 Spanish Bourbon Kings. The priceless furniture, extraordinary clocks, splendid fresco paintings, outstanding tapestries, inventive rugs, the astonishing porcelain room and stucco chamber, beautiful sculptures, the royal silver wares and table services, are some of the Palace’s decorative masterpieces which will overwhelm you. And this is not all. The grandeur of the Royal Armoury Museum will impress you . Why ? Because of the armouries of Emperor Charles V and King Phillip II which have a supreme significance in the History of Arts. You will notice this, watching the draws and drafts of those armouries made by Helmschmied, Grossschaedel, Negroli, and other artists of that period. Simply one of the most imposing exposition of armoury decoration.

Our guide will bring you afterwards to 3 wonderful museums: the Prado Museum Masterpieces Tour is a marvellous trip through the amazing secrets of Rogier Van der Weyden, Bosch, Tintoretto, Titian, El Greco, Caravaggio, Rubens, Ribera, Velázquez, Murillo, and Francisco de Goya. The Thyssen Bornemisza Museum, which is worth visiting not only as an example of excellent building refurbishment, but for its rich collection of paintings, from the Romanesque period until the late 20th century, with emphasis on the German Expressionists, and the Reina Sofía Modern Art Centre which offers splendid temporary expositions. Its standard Collection includes attractive paintings and sculptures of the past century: Picasso, Juan Gris, Miró, Dalí, Domínguez, Tapies and the Spanish Expressionists, among others. Our guide’s introduction of the Guernika of Pablo Picasso ( the masterpiece of XX century paintings ) will be the strongest point of this unforgettable Tour.

REMARK : The published price is per person for 8 people. Please consult us our rates for a different number of Travellers !