We woke up early on our second morning to take a highlights of Madrid tour. The walking tour of the neighborhood was great and then they took us around by bus to see more of Madrid, it was hard to see as well.
The bus dropped us off near the Prado museum and we took a tour later that afternoon. The museum was very crowded. What really struck me was that so many of the paintings were huge. It kind of diluted the grandeur a bit because at museums at home, you only get so many that would need a whole wall to themselves, but in the Prado so many were life sized. One painting of one of the former kings looked very dark and looked like it needed restoration but our guide explained to us that it was in the palace when it caught fire and the staff through it out the window to save it.
After the Prado, we met a guide at the Reina Sofia museum. This museum was significantly less crowded and more modern art. It was great to have a guide bring us through cubism and surrealism because for someone who didn’t have a lot of art education, it’s hard to fully figure out what each painting is about. Our guide was amazing and she seemed very happy to have female guests. She took us through a few pieces by a prominent 20th century female artist Ángeles Santos Torroella and how her pieces were commentary on gender social issues of her time.
After the museum, we took the metro back to our neighborhood and found dinner in a very random restaurant. It was in the basement of a shop that sold purses and other things, the decoration was like a sun room from Palm Beach. I couldn’t tell you what kind of food it was but we really liked what we ordered.
Early bed time for us to try to catch up on sleep.
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