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Madrid Museum Tours
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Key Information:
Group Size: 1
- 14
people
Destination: Madrid
Season: January - December
Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Minimum Cost: 237 Euro (EUR) Per trip
Maximum Cost: 291 Euro (EUR) Per trip
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Madrid Museum Tours offers to Madrid travellers a great, leisurely walking tour of Madrid’s classic city center, with a visit to the Royal Palace, as well as the Thyssen Bornemisza and Reina Sofía museums.
Skip the audioguides and spend the day with a guide for a comprehensive immersion into Madrid's finest artistic and urban treasures. Our 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 walk 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 which later became Madrid.
The Palace is a magnificent royal residence and 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.
After such a rich artistic "immersion", we will enjoy an urban one the architectural and town planning brilliance left by the Spanish Austria and Bourbon Crowns. Strong Points of this part of the visit are : PLAZA DE ORIENTE + The charming AYUNTAMIENTO + The very old and romantic PLAZA DE LA PAJA + The little known La Latina district + The famous PLAZA MAYOR +The illustrative SANTA ISABEL St. and SANTA ANA + The magnificent iron building of the ATOCHA RAILWAY STATION + THE ART AVENUE + RETIRO GARDENS, etc.
Madrid Museum Tours will bring you afterwards to 2 wonderful museums: 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 Madrid Museum Tours.
Notes:
16% IVA to be added to all prices
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