Prado

We had the luxury of being able to spend the whole day in the Prado Museum which was established around 1818, very early for an art museum. The contents came from the royal collection so there are lots of portraits of royalty. What an ugly lot they were too. It is not surprizing that they died out. The inbreeding is visible. But they did like their dogs. I only spotted two paintings of cats in the entire museum although there may have been some in the H. Boschs but there was a crowd in front of all of them.

No photos allowed inside. I longed to take one of a painting by Velasquez in 1657 of women spinning but luckily there was a post card instead. I took one of us in front of the statue of Goya to mark the occasion.

Afterwards we wandered home to our comfortable hotel for a rest before our last dinner together.