Skip-the-Line Madrid Guided Tour: The best of Prado & Reina Sofia | La Vacanza Travel

Skip-the-Line Madrid Guided Tour: The best of Prado & Reina Sofia

Duration: 3 hours 45 minutes
Destination: Spain, Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid
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  • 3 hours 45 minutes
  • Madrid
  • E-Voucher
  • Lowest Price
  • Not-Cancellable

Overview

Discover on a half-day tour the Art Walk in Madrid! Enjoy preferential access to Madrid’s two great pictorial museums: Prado Museum and the Queen Sofía National Museum Art Centre.

Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product

Stop At: Prado National Museum, Calle Ruiz de Alarcon 23, 28014 Madrid Spain

The tour begins with a visit to the “Reina Sofía Art Centre”. See Picasso’s Guernica and major works by Salvador Dalí. Discover the stories behind all the paintings you will see. The museum’s permanent collection contains works produced between the end of the 19th Century and the present day. Today, the Reina Sofía Museum’s holdings include more than 21.000 works of art. Visit the Sabatini and Nouvel buildings, the two parts into which the museum is divided.

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Calle de Santa Isabel 52, 28012 Madrid Spain

Continue to the Prado Museum. See paintings from Rafael Sanzio, Fra Angélico, El Bosco, Tiziano, Velázquez, Rubens and Goya. Follow your guide through the different rooms and learn about the backstories of all the famous painters and paintings.

Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes

Inclusions
  • Monolingual guide, art passionate.
  • Tickets to Prado Museum and Reina Sofía Museum
  • Individual radioguided system is offered to groups of more than 5 people.
  • Entry/Admission - Prado National Museum
  • Entry/Admission - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia

Exclusions
  • Lunch, beverages or other services not specified above
  • Transportation
  • Pick up/ Drop off from the customer’s hotel.
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Near public transportation
  • Infant seats available
  • Most travelers can participate
  • It is possible that some of the paintings that are in our program were not available, despite belonging to the permanent collections of the three museums, because it was assigned for some exhibition, in this case, would be replaced by another painting with a similar artistic value.
  • Please keep in mind that the tour includes several visits on foot, comfortable shoes are recommended.
  • Visitors are kindly requested to respect the instructions of the Museums Security Staff: Photography and filming are not permitted inside the exhibitions.
  • Failure to show up at the established check-in time may entail losing the tour
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 30 travelers
  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Departure Point

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, C. de Sta. Isabel, 52, Centro, 28012 Madrid, Spain


Departure Time

10:15 AM


Return Details

Museo Nacional del Prado, C. de Ruiz de Alarcón, 23, Retiro, 28014 Madrid, Spain

Voucher info

You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.

Duration

3 hours 45 minutes


User's Reviews

Jeff_N

29 Sep, 2023

Great tour. I wish I remembered the guide's name, but I believe it was Julio. He had a tattoo on his right hand. Anyway, so much passion and enthusiasm from him that he really brought the museums to life. It would be impossible to do these three museums in one day on your own. Saw the highlights and were thoroughly satisfied. You won't be disappointed!

Osvaldo_M

15 Sep, 2023

Please note that this review is being provided only considering the visit to El Prado Museum as the tour operator canceled the other two museums the day prior to the visit without a specific reason. . This was extremely disappointing as the only reason I had booked this activity was because it covered a guided tour of all three museums. Having said that, the tour operator offered a compensatory free alternate tour which was nice but not what I really had wanted to do . Also the original tour cost was not cheap so Iam waiting for La Vacanza Travel to actually back their original advertisement of this tour and provide a partial refund of the original cost. All of that aside, the tour of the Prado Museum was good. Our tour guide Laura,,provided extensive explanation and coverage of the main art pieces that could be covered in 1 1/2hours. This museum has an extensive collection that cannot be covered in that time so make plans to stay a bit longer if you want to see more. I did enjoy the tour with a guide as,otherwise, you miss out on the background history of both the painter and what’s behind the specific artwork.

Stephenie_G

23 Apr, 2023

Very knowledgeable & passionate guide - Nacho. Most enjoyable tour. Would recommend. Takes you to the renowned paintings.

art

03 Feb, 2020

Our guides Lorana and Mercedes were fantastic Extremely knowledable about the art The museums were very interesting I highly Recommend using this company

KC O

09 Nov, 2019

This tour was a comprehensive introduction to the history of art in Madrid, and our guide was sweet and passionate. Be prepared to walk and stand. A lot!! If you have plenty of time in Madrid, and art is a passion for you, I would recommend visiting these museums on separate days. Because the tour covers so much in so little time, I had to pass by pieces that I would have liked to explore further, and there were hundreds we didn’t even get to glance at. Alas, I only had one full day in Madrid, so this tour at least allowed me to see more than I otherwise would have. The lunch was lovely, but we were only lucky to end up being seated; when we first arrived, there was standing room only. I will say that my entire tour group was exhausted by midway through the Reina Sofia, the last of the three museums we visited. I do think there would have been more time to view more pieces, or the tour could cover the same material in a much shorter time if it were in one language only. It was tough to stand around while the information was relayed in Spanish, and then stand while it was explained again in English. I do understand that logistically, this may not be possible. I loved that we were allowed to take photographs in two of the 3 museums, as this allowed me to make note of a few paintings we didn’t discuss, but about which I wanted to know more. In the end, I would especially recommend this tour if your time in Madrid is short and you love art and art history.

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