It’s time for me to escape a little while from the coming and going, hustle and bustle, and more important, perpare for another full challenge, this is when there is nothing better than hiding away in one amazing country in European, Spain.
Of course since I can’t enjoy Spain’s full beauty, naturely, I went to Barcelona and Madrid. Maybe a lot of people think Barcelona is more interesting than Madrid, it has a lot of amazing buldings, designed by Gaudi, and peaceful Beach, and also the famous Sagrada Familia, yes, Barcelona is an amazing city, I have to admit it, but I have to say Madrid is a place that I want to stay more days, because I really enjoy the Freedom and also surrounding by Art.
Madrid magically merges the tradition and modernity tegether, although it only has a short history of 400y, its strong personality left me a deep impact.
First I have to emphasize the museums, Madrid has a great many attractive museums to please everyone who visits them, and the Prado Museum is undoubtedly one of the great jewels.
It’s forbidden to photo inside, but still I can’t help to introduce some artistics. Prado owns an international attraction both for the quantity (8,600 works) and the quality of the paintings. I didn’t have enough time and also not good at appreciating the paintings, but I’m here strongly recommend some. Like by VAV DER WEYDEN, by RAPHAEL, by GOYA, and so on. Of course you can download it from internet, but a view before the original painting is totally another feeling, amazing, no matter the color or the lines. And most of the paintings have their own stories, like by GOYA and . It’s really really perfect.
The next station is the Palacio Real. In my opinion, The Palacio Real is probable the most emblematic building of Madrid due to its beauty, symbolic value and eventful history. It houses an enormous artistic richness,with works by GOYA,Velasquez, EI Greco, Rubens, among many others. Moreover, it has an extremly valuable collection of decorative arts that includes magnificent porcelains, watches and items of furniture.