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Museo del Prado
Welcome to one of the premier art galleries anywhere in the world. The more than 7000
paintings held in the Museo del Prado are like a window on the historical vagaries of the
Spanish soul, at once grand and imperious in the royal paintings of Velázquez, darkly tu-
multuous in Las Pinturas Negras (the Black Paintings) of Goya and outward-looking with
sophisticated works of art from all across Europe. Spend as long as you can at the Prado
or, better still, plan to make a couple of visits - it can be a little overwhelming if you try to
absorb it all at once.
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes is found on all three floors of the Prado. In Rooms
64 and 65, Goya's
El Dos de Mayo
and
El Tres de Mayo
rank among Madrid's most em-
blematic paintings. Alongside, in Rooms 66 and 67, are some of his darkest and most dis-
turbing works,
Las Pinturas Negras
.
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