Day 10: The Golden Triangle Of Art

Today we visited all three of the museums that make up Madrid's famed Golden Triangle Of Art. Our first stop was at the Reina Sofia Museum, which is home to the well-known Picasso painting La Guernica. It was a great museum which hosted various paintings and works of art which relate to the Spanish Civil War, with some connections to World War 2. Therefore, there were some very powerful works with deep meanings behind them. We spent our entire morning in order to carefully observe and appreciate each fantastic work of art. 

We then ate dinner outside the museum and then headed over to our second museum of the day, the Thyssen-Bornemisza. We visited a great temporary exhibition at the museum, which included Impressionist art. We got to see works from painters such as Van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, and many more. I think that this was an exhibition that we were all able to fully enjoy. We then moved onto the museum's permanent exhibitions, which included a very well-known Salvador Dali painting titled Dream Caused By The Flight Of A Bee Around A Pomegranate A Second Before Awakening. We didn't spend too much time here, but there were some very interesting works. 

We then had Chocolate & Churros before heading to the final museum of the day, a return trip to the great Prado Museum. We were only able to spend an hour and a half here, but in that time frame we were able to review a lot of the works we had seen the previous time as well as explore some additional works by great Spanish painters. Some of us will come back here tomorrow for a very extensive final visit, which I'm sure we'll be covered in the blog tomorrow.

After the Prado Museum, we had a great dinner at a Japanese restaurant nearby our Airbnb before calling it a day. Our final full day in Spain will be tomorrow, and although we're very excited to explore Madrid one more time, we're equally ready and excited to return home.