Three museums are located very close together, shaped and known as the Paseo del Arte. They are the Museo del Prado, the Thyssen Bornemisza and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. The Prado Museum is considered by many experts as the first art gallery in the world, as it has the largest and most complete collection of sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with the best works of the Italian, Flemish and Spanish. In the Prado Museum are works by artists such as Bosch, Rubens, Goya, Velazquez, Murillo, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Titian, Raphael, Watteau, Tintorretto, El Greco, Ribera, Zurbaran ... and much more that can seen next to a magnificent collection of classical sculpture. The Prado Museum offers guided tours for private groups outside the public opening hours, which will make this memorable encounter with art.

Thyssen Bornemisza Museum houses a private collection, finally transferred to the capital in 1993, which is ranked as the most important being a very representative sample of an extended period, the home from early works of painting of the thirteenth century to the avant-garde twentieth century. Durer, Tintoretto, Degas, Kandinsky, Goya, Cezanne, Matisse, Dalí, Miró, Picasso and Renoir are among the artists who are part of this collection.

Ending the Paseo del Arte at the National Museum Reina Sofia Art Center, famous for hosting the Guernica of Picasso and his collection of contemporary paintings, mainly Spanish.

The importance of the three great galleries has unfairly overshadowed the richness and variety of museums that are in Madrid. If the passenger has time, he has the opportunity to choose among dozens of options. From other galleries of great interest as the Royal Academy of San Fernando, to local museums or theme, such as the Romantic Museum, the Railway Museum, Naval Museum, the Army Museum, the Museum of America, the National Archaeological Museum The National Museum of Natural Sciences, etc.

Madrid also has a collection of palaces and monuments which are one of the most important heritages of Western history. National Heritage is the agency responsible for the custody of these assets of the state concerned to the use and service of the king and the administration of convents and monasteries founded by the Kings over the centuries. Of great artistic value, the training has been for centuries the cultural engine of Spain. This group, open to the public, is made by the Royal Palace, the Pantheon of Illustrious, the Royal Monastery of the Royal Monastery of the Incarnation, the Royal Palace of El Pardo Royal Palace of Aranjuez, Real Monasterio de El Escorial, the Casita del Príncipe de El Escorial, the Casita del Infante de El Escorial and the Benedictine Abbey of the Holy Cross in the Valley of the Fallen.