Madrid’s culture

Madrid is synonymous with culture. The Spanish capital’s most famous museums are just a few minutes away from Hotel Moderno.

MUSEO DEL PARDO
1,5 km

Home to almost 4,900 works of art, Museo del Prado is the most important art museum in Spain and around the world. Las Meninas by Velázquez, The Naked Maja and The 3rd of May by Goya and The Nobleman with his Hand on his Chest by El Greco are just some of its most famous exhibited works.

Address: Paseo del Prado, s/n. (Entrance on Calle Ruiz de Alarcón, 23).
Opening times: Tue-Sun, 9.00am – 8.00pm.
Closed Mondays.
Free entrance: Tue-Sat from 6.00pm and Sundays from 5.00pm.

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MUSEO THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA
1,2 km

Palacio de Villahermosa, built in the late Eighteenth Century and symbol of Madrid’s Neoclassical architecture, is the building that houses this important museum that holds close to 1,000 works of art in its rooms. Among the most important ones are Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening by Salvador Dalí, Portrait of a Peasant by Paul Cézanne and The Dream by Franz Marc among many others

Madrid’s culture - Hotel Moderno Madrid
Madrid’s culture - Hotel Moderno Madrid

MUSEO REINA SOFÍA
2,8 km

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) is located in the area of Atocha, in the old Madrid General Hospital, a Neoclassical-style building from the Eighteenth Century. Its most famous work of art from its collection is Guernica by Pablo Picasso, the Spanish artist’s masterpiece. Also in the museum’s collection are works by Salvador Dalí, Picasso himself and Joan Miró.

TEATRO REAL
500 m

Madrid’s opera theatre, one of the city’s main gems with capacity for 1,746 spectators, was inaugurated in 1850 and built in Neoclassical and Eclectic styles. It is located in Plaza de Isabel II, s/n.

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