Class Trips To Spain

Prado Museum, Madrid
One of the world’s great museums, it shows Spanish artists, including El Greco, Velázquez, Ribera, Murillo and Goya; Italian painters, such as Fra Angelico and Raphael; and such Flemish artists as Bosch, Rubens and van Dyck. Major holdings include Velázquez’s Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor), Goya’s Naked Maja and Clothed Maja, and Bosch’s The Garden of Delights.

El Escorial
The imposing monastic retreat northwest of Madrid was established by Philip II who died here in 1598.

Picasso Museum, Barcelona
Picasso's artistic development is followed through hundreds of works.

Museum of Fine Arts, Seville
most important collection of Spanish paintings after the Prado is found in this medieval convent.

Alhambra, Granada
Geometric intricacy and a subtle interchange of water, color, scent and light fill the palaces and gardens of this vast city-fortress, the last bastion of the Moors.

Teatro Romano, Mérida
Built in 15 B.C. to seat 6,000 people; many more Roman remains are nearby. Also see the Museo de Arte Romano and, in Badajoz, the Museo Arqueológico.

House of Science, La Coruña
A fascinating interactive science museum, with two buildings--the Planetarium and the Domus, or House of Mankind.

Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)
Pieces by Spanish and Catalonian artists, as well as Calder, Dubuffet, Klee, Oldenburg and many others.