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century. It houses major works
by such influential artists as
Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Joan
Miró, and Eduardo Chillida.
There is also space dedicated to
post-World War II movements,
such as Abstract, Pop, and
Minimal Art.
The highlight of the
collection is Picasso’s Guernica
(1937). This Civil War protest
painting was inspired by the
mass air attack in 1937 on the
Basque village of Gernika by
Gallery at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza German pilots flying for the
Nationalist air force.
8 Museo Thyssen- Christus’s Our Lady of the Dry Tree
Bornemisza (c.1450), and The Toilet of Venus
(c.1629), by Peter Paul Rubens. 0 Parque del Retiro
Paseo del Prado 8. Tel 902 760 511.
q Banco de España, Sevilla. @ 1, 2, On the ground floor are two q Retiro, Ibiza, Atocha. Open daily.
5, 9, 14, 15, 20. Open noon–4pm Mon, temporary exhibition galleries 7 ∑ parquedelretiro.es
10am–7pm Tue–Sun (to 9pm on Sat with free access.
for temporary exhibitions). Closed Jan An extension has joined the
1, May 1, Dec 25. & (free Mon). 8 7 museum to two buildings in The Retiro Park formed part of
= - 0 d ∑ museothyssen.org order to display its collection of Felipe IV’s royal-palace complex.
Impressionist works, mainly All that remains of the palace is
This magnificent museum from the 19th century. the Casón del Buen Retiro (now
houses a collection of art part of the Prado museum) and
assembled by Baron Heinrich 9 Centro de Arte the Salón de Reinos (the former
Thyssen-Bornemisza and his Reina Sofía army museum).
son, Hans Heinrich. From its First fully opened to the
beginnings in the 1920s, the Calle Santa Isabel 52. Tel 91-774 10 00. public in 1869, the Retiro
collection was intended to q Atocha. @ 6, 8, 10, 14, 19, 27, 45, remains a popular place for
illustrate the history of Western 55, 60, 78. Open 10am–9pm Mon, relaxing in Madrid. The park has
art, from the 14th to the 20th Wed–Sat, 10am–2:30pm Sun (to a pleasure lake, where rowing
century. In 2004, 200 paintings 7:30pm for temporary exhibitions). boats can be hired. On one side
from the Carmen Thyssen- Closed Tue, main public hols. & of the lake, in front of a half-
Bornemisza Collection were (free from 7pm Mon, Wed–Sat, from moon colonnade, stands an
added. Among the museum’s 3:30pm Sun). 8 7 = - 0 equestrian statue of Alfonso XII.
exhibits are masterpieces by ∑ museoreinasofia.es To the south of the lake are
Titian, Goya, and Van Gogh. two attractive palaces. The
The series of Dutch and Housed in an 18th-century Neoclassical Palacio de
Flemish works is a strong point former general hospital, with Velázquez and the Palacio
of the collection. Highlights three additional modern glass de Cristal (Crystal Palace) were
include Jan van Eyck’s The buildings, this superb museum built by Velázquez Bosco in
Annunciation (c.1435–41), Petrus traces art through the 20th 1887 as exhibition venues.

Colonnade and statue of Alfonso XII (1901) overlooking the Parque del Retiro’s boating lake

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