Guided tours and courses in and around Madrid

Essential Madrid

Prado essentials: Masterpieces

Prado essentials: Masterpieces

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“Prado Essentials”  guided tour covers different masterworks of the most representative schools and artists of all times represented at the Prado. From the Italian Quattrocento to Goya, Madrid Original will propose you a selection of works by the Flemish...
Madrid of the Habsburgs: Imperial capital

Madrid of the Habsburgs: Imperial capital

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First time in Madrid? Madrid Original ® recommends a walked guided tour through Habsburgs’ Madrid consisting of Austrian rulers period (1515-1700) monuments (palaces, churches and convents) around the most representative of them all: the Plaza Mayor (“the...
Royal Palace: deciphering the king’s house

Royal Palace: deciphering the king’s house

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Madrid Original ®’s approach for guided visits to the Royal Palace is different from the classical “the-palace-has-2800-rooms”. Instead, our guided tours explain why a specific architecture and decoration were chosen for the main residence of Spanish...
Thyssen essentials: masterpieces

Thyssen essentials: masterpieces

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With our private guided tour, the Museo Thyssen will become the liveliest lesson on art history that you’ve ever dreamt of. Madrid Original® suggests a guided tour paying particular attention to the masterpieces of the museum, specially those aspects of the...
UNESCO World Heritage: Retiro Park, Garden of History

UNESCO World Heritage: Retiro Park, Garden of History

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Madrid Original ® proposes a 2-hours walked guided tour across Retiro Park. We will discover the remains of the Royal Domain of Buen Retiro, and we will learn how the Gardens of a Royal Palace were transformed into a public park through the 19th century, as a symbol...
Gran Vía Tour: a walk on 20th century

Gran Vía Tour: a walk on 20th century

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Madrid Original ® suggests a 2 hours private walking guided tour along the Gran Vía. The Gran Vía is like an open-air museum of Spanish architecture from 1912 to 1959, when the city wished to become modern and started to look for inspiration in such different place as...