About 40 people had the opportunity to enjoy the last weekend of 18 and 19 February, the cultural visit to Madrid within the program including travel Cultural Heritage Department of Culture and the Municipality of Alhama.
The visit coincided with the Madrid International Contemporary Art Fair (ARCO) held in the capital, offering all applicants who traveled to Madrid, the possibility to visit the fair during the afternoon of Saturday.
That evening there was a guided tour of the city can enjoy the most emblematic monuments and squares of Madrid and the Palacio Real, Plaza Mayor, the market in San Miguel de las Letras neighborhood, etc..
After the visit, there was free time for each of the people enjoy a taste of the many charms and offer both cultural and gastronomic offer in the city ranging from the Thyssen museum visit to see the works of the temporary exhibition the painter Chagall, to the theaters or the tops of the night in Madrid.
The tour continued on Sunday with a visit to the Prado Museum, where he was scheduled to see the temporary exhibition at the Hermitage in the Prado, in this important exhibition could see both the archaeological treasures of gold from the Greeks and the nomads of Eurasia with pieces rare gold, silver or precious stones.
Alongside these archaeological treasures were great masterpieces of painting as the San Sebastian de Titian, Caravaggio's Lute Player, San Sebastian de Ribera and Velázquez lunch or marble sculpture by Antonio Canova, the Magdalena penitent.
The exhibition is also notable examples of the famous painting collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Russian Museum, which will be represented Monet, Cézanne, Renoir, Gauguin and Matisse, the latter two works, game balls and Conversation.
Picasso included three paintings, including Woman sitting and Absinthe Drinker and complete the pick two Russian works of art abstract Kandinsky Composition VI and the mysterious black square of Malevich.
No doubt an important cultural visit to the Prado Museum and temporary exhibition is open until March 25, 2012.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alhama de Murcia