The Museo Nacional del Prado is one of the most important art galleries in the world. It houses a large collection of the works of the European masters from the 16th to the 19th centuries, in particular Velázquez, Goya, Titian, Rubens, El Greco, Murillo, Ribera, Zurbarán, Tintoretto and Hieronymus Bosch.

The collection comprises some 7,600 paintings, 1,000 sculptures, 3,000 engravings and 6,400 drawings, as well as a large number of decorative art objects and historical documents, of which nearly one thousand are on display.