3-in-1 Madrid Tour:
Private Prado access, historic center, and Royal Palace
Destination
Madrid, Spain
Duration
4 hours
Tour size
Max 15
Language
English
Overview
Your group enters the Prado Museum an hour before it opens, with the galleries entirely to yourselves. From there, this Madrid royal palace tour walks you through the historic center's grand squares and into the Royal Palace, all in a single morning.
- •Walk the Prado's galleries before opening, with only your small group for company
- •Stand in front of Velázquez's Las Meninas and trace the optical illusion that has puzzled art historians for 360 years
- •Stroll through Plaza Mayor, once a bullfight arena, and stand at Puerta del Sol's Kilometer Zero
- •Step past the line at the Royal Palace and into rooms lined with gilt, Tiepolo frescoes, and Stradivarius violins
What's included
- Private early access entry to the Prado Museum
- Skip-the-line entry to the Royal Palace
- Local English-speaking guide
You will visit
- Prado Museum (private early access)
- Plaza Mayor
- Puerta del Sol
- Literary Quarter
- Plaza de la Villa
- Opera House (exterior)
- Royal Palace of Madrid
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What to expect
The Prado before the crowds: your group, the masters, and an hour of quiet
Your group enters the Prado Museum one hour before it opens to the public. Your guide walks you through the collection's defining works, from Velázquez's royal portraits to Goya's dark late paintings and Bosch's hallucinatory Garden of Earthly Delights. With the morning light coming in and the rooms to yourselves, you can stand as close as you like and take as long as you need. Four centuries of Spanish royal collecting line these walls, and at this hour, all of it belongs to you.
Madrid's historic center: the stories between the squares
From the Prado, you'll walk into the old city. Plaza Mayor has been a marketplace, a bullfight arena, and the stage for public executions, and your guide fills in the centuries between those days and the terrace cafés there today. At Puerta del Sol, you'll stand on the bronze plaque that marks Kilometer Zero, the point from which every road in Spain is measured.
"People rush past the Bosch room. I always stop there. The longer you look at The Garden of Earthly Delights, the more you find."
Carlos,
WalksDevour Madrid guide
"The Prado at 9 a.m., nobody else there. I've done it hundreds of times and I still look forward to that first walk through."
Madrid,
WalksDevour Madrid guide
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