Top 5 in Top 10 tourist attractions in Spain.
Prado alone ranks with the world's top art museums for the richness of its collections. But add the Reina Sofia National Art Museum, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and the CaixaForum, along Madrid's mile-long tree-lined boulevard that is home to the world's highest concentration of priceless art treasures. No wonder this place is known as El Paseo del Arte - Avenue of the Arts.
After the 2007 expansion, doubling the exhibition space, Prado added another 12 galleries in 2009 to house a collection of works by Goya and other late 19th-century artists. Prado has the largest collection of Spanish art in the world, an impressive continuation from 12th-century medieval works through the avant-garde movement of the early 20th century, and is particularly noted for its works from the Spanish Golden Age by El Greco, Velazquez, and Goya.
But its wealth is not all Spanish; other highlights are medieval murals and murals, paintings by Flemish and Dutch artists (be sure to check out Hieronymous Bosch's fantasy world and works by Rubens and Brueghel) , and Italian art (Botticelli, Raphael, Correggio, Titian and Tintoretto).
Highlights of Reina Sofia's 20,000 impressive works are Picasso's Guernica and works by Miró, Dalí, Dubuffet, Braque, Serra, Calder and Magritte.