Museo Nacional del Prado
The Prado National Museum in Madrid contains flemish, italian and spanish art in its collection. To date, the museum has about 8,600 works, but because of the limited space can only show 2,000 paintings. The Prado Museum of Fine Arts is considered one of the largest and most significant not only in Spain , but throughout Europe . About 2 million tourists visit the Prado annually. His collection contains the largest number of works of Spanish painting and sculpture in the world, collected over several centuries. The museum was officially opened on November 19, 1819 by the founder Isabella Braganskaya, wife of King Ferdinand VII, but the history of the collection began much earlier. The first monarch who wished to preserve artistic values and pass on to inheritance was Charles V (1500–1558). In those days, the collection was available only to the nobility, and only a small part on religious subjects - to the general public. Already later, in 1785, a place was set asid...