A tourist route through the best corners of Madrid without leaving the Prado Museum

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She is greeted by a coarse-looking giant with colossal strength, intimidating pupils, and a terrifying appearance.

For something this oil on canvas, attributed to the Italian

and with nearly 400 years behind him, is called

Well, located on the main staircase of

it is the first of the

of the center that form a new route through unique places in the

, whether through landscapes, characters (aristocratic and from the street ) or even mythological monsters like the one just mentioned.

Not in vain, it decorated the

of the

before scrutinizing visitors to the Prado as soon as they set foot in the most important museum in the country.

And one of the 10 best valued in the world, according to publications such as

.

A couple sitting in front of the El Retiro pond.C.

LUCAS ABREU

The route jumps from Carducho to

From El Retiro to Aranjuez, El Pardo, El Escorial or Boadilla del Monte.

From colossal heads to palaces, churches, monasteries,

.

That yes, although the itinerary takes place

of the center, the idea is to go beyond them and approach the places that the pieces represent or for which they were painted through a route through the community.

"This pictorial itinerary that links

a surprising journey from the universal to what is closest to our beloved Madrid," says the Minister of Culture, Tourism and Sports, Marta Rivera de la Cruz.

'View of the Escorial monastery', painting by Michel-Ange Houasse.

The museum's curators spent months selecting 23 works from the more than

present in the art gallery.

"9,399 to be exact, although only 1,290 are exposed," says Arantza Urbina, head of the project and deputy general director of Development and Sustainability of the General Directorate of Tourism.

And he adds: "

is positioning itself as

and within this framework we began to develop the idea of ​​creating a cultural and tourist route like this one".

Another artistic look

The circuit does not follow a

.

Not even spatial, since it covers four floors (from -1 to 2).

The idea is that everyone, with the route in hand or on their mobile -it is available both physically in the museum and on the Community website- discover the

to their liking.

And then move to the related scenarios.

"They function as a gateway to

under a new artistic gaze," Urbina clarifies.

To do this, the guide includes a map of those currently open to visitors (15 in total).

Courtyard of the Palace of AranjuezSHUTTERSTOCK

Among these, those included in the Landscape of Light stand out -the last of the five UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Madrid-

as the Retiro Park, the Botanical Garden,

or the museum itself.

This quota includes paintings such as

or María Isabel de Braganza as founder of the Prado Museum.

Room dedicated to Goya in the Prado Museum.M.

OF THE MEADOW

The Royal Palace, for its part, appears both in the form of sculpture (

bought by

) and in Goya

's works on the

There are also references to its predecessor, the Real Alcázar, on which it was built.

To begin with, the first destination of

was the

of this fortress.

Likewise, Velázquez painted

for her , in which the peak of Maliciosa can be seen in the background.

Interior of the Madrid Botanical Garden.

We jump to another palace, that of

since based on

or

by Goya, the corresponding tapestry would be made for the dining room of the

.

The same process was followed with

and

conceived for the bedrooms.

The route continues with

, by

, which occupied the

del Real Sitio, or

by Michel-Ange Houasse.

'The Botanical Garden from the Prado Museum', by Luis Paret y Alcázar.

There are also lesser-known destinations such as the

, where Goya

's famous painting of

"It's one of the ones I like the most because it speaks indirectly of the place. In addition, it conveys

that are unusual in his portraits," concludes Urbina.

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