For those of you who love art, do not dislike a visit to a museum and are intrigued to see how a nobleman led his life between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, you have to pay a visit to the Cerralbo museum!
The museum is housed in the beautiful palace of the Cerralbo family, where the Marquis, an eccentric man, politician but also an archaeologist and collector, gathered works of art and artefacts from all over the world.
The beauty mixes with the curious in this collection that includes: both drawings and paintings (from the Spanish El Greco, Zubarán, De Ribera to the Italians Tintoretto and Tiziano) but also armor and swords, ceramics, clocks and other archaeological finds.
This visit is literally a treasure hunt: room after room, guide to the hand, you will be overwhelmed by the number of paintings on the walls, by the antiques that fill the rooms, by the toll of the many still working clocks.
At his death, the marquis donated his house and his collection to the Spanish state. This way, his residence became a museum accessible to all art lovers. The cost to visit it? 3 euros. Free entry on Thursdays from 5 to 8 pm, Saturday afternoons from 2 pm and on Sundays. Enjoy your visit!
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Hello! We are Raffaella and Simone, a couple in life as well as in travel, and the two souls behind Shortcut to.
Hello! We are Raffaella and Simone, a couple in life as well as in travel, and the two souls behind Shortcut to.
Engaged in a long distance relationship, we have spent many weekends milling miles from west to east (or vice versa) between trains, coincidences, suitcases to do and to unpack. Travel has always been in our destiny.
In May 2012 we travel for the first time together outside the national borders, the destination is London. Since then, whenever we can, we book a flight and leave for the next destination.
With our blog we want to encourage some traveler-dreamer, those who travel only sitting on the couch scrolling instagram, saying to themselves “this is not for me, I can not afford it “, to change your mind and leave. Our travels aren’t appearance, our photos are amateur and our budget is tight. If we can do it why can’t you?
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