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Prado Museum & Madrid Royal Palace: Guided Tour with Exclusive Skip-the-Line Access
4.2
725 Ratings
Madrid
Experience the best of Madrid with a guided tour of the Royal Palace and Prado Museum. Skip the lines and explore the rich history and art of these iconic landmarks.
Duration:
5 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Royal Palace of Madrid - We will meet the guide at Estatua Felipe IV at Plaza de Oriente. you will enter with a skip-the-line ticket into the Madrid Royal Palace, the official residence of Kings of Spain. Our guide will show and explain to you the impressive historical and artistic heritage that is part of this huge palace.
- Congreso de Los Diputados - When the guided tour inside the Prado Museum ends, you will walk through streets of Madrid and you will know some emblematic places such as the Congress of Deputies.
- Puerta del Sol - Before to arrive to the Royal Palace, the group tour will make a stop in Puerta del Sol, one of the most famous square in Madrid where are located the famous statue of the Bear and the Arbutus, and the post office clock, known for being the place from which the year-end chimes are issued since 1962.
- Casa de Cervantes - During your walking tour from the Prado Museum to the Madrid Royal Palace, you will also know the Cervantes House, where lived the most important writer of Spanish Literature.
- Prado National Museum - Finally we will arrive to the Prado Museum and the group will enter skipping the line inside the museum, where the guide will explain to you the most important art collections.
What's Included
- Official guide
- Madrid Royal Palace Skip the Line Ticket
- Prado Museum Skip the Line Ticket
- Headsets to hear the tour guide clearly
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
Additional Information
Embark on a morning journey to two must-see locations in Madrid. Our day starts off with a comprehensive tour of the Royal Palace, a massive structure symbolizing European royalty, which will astonish us with its lavish embellishments and the variety of its rooms and chambers.
Following a guided walking tour to key attractions in Madrid, in between the Royal Palace and the Prado Museum, we will conclude our excursion with a 90-minute exploration of the Prado Museum, visiting its most notable galleries and artwork. Particular focus will be directed towards those artistic masterpieces that have, in some manner, transformed the art history and became globally recognized. We’ll have the chance to admire the works of artists like Murillo, Velázquez, Goya, Rubens, and Tiziano, to name a few.
We’ve arranged for priority access, official tour guides, and inclusive admission fees for all these tours. Thus, your only concern should be to take pleasure in Madrid’s splendid landmarks.
- Please, note that from December 1, 2021 the meeting point will be next to the Statue of Felipe IV located in the center of the Plaza de Oriente.
- No Serious Medical Conditions
Location
Pl. de España, 9
Plaza de España
The meeting point will be our office Naturanda
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.2
(725 Ratings)
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Tiffany_e
Jun 5, 2024
Worth It - Both the palace and the Prado were made better by having such a great tour guide. Marta was very funny and welcoming!
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Brenda_e
Jun 4, 2024
Wonderful tour! - Our guide Marta was very informative and witty! She made this tour real special for us! We highly recommend this tour!
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Robert_w
Jun 1, 2024
Great tour! - Marta was a knowledgeable and friendly guide with a wealth of information. The places are busy and crowded, but she kept us together and provided us with valuable information about the sights. Seeing both sights and the walk in between make for a long day, but it was well worth it.
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Melmoerobinson
Jun 1, 2024
Great combo - Enjoyed this combined tour, nice group of people and easy to understand both guides. The palace tour was in the morning, Prado in the afternoon which was a little more busy due to famous/interesting artwork. Would do this one again!
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Beach3521nu
May 31, 2024
Walk with an expert - Our guide Angel knows a lot and allowed us to notice a lot of very interesting details. Furthermore, he is very pleasant and cheerful.
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Richard_c
Jun 4, 2024
Great Beauty in Palace - Amazingly extravagant yet beauty in the Royal Palace. I must see on how governments led by the monarchy live and now are museums for the rest of us to now view.
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Pattie_d
May 30, 2024
Good tour in very crowded palace - The tour of the palace was very crowded, very difficult to keep the group together and very difficult to see the art, it was like herding cattle. I would definitely do a private or small group tour if you want a better experience. The Prado was much better, less crowded, I think that was the time of day, 3 pm. Our guide, Marta, did her best to keep us entertained, she has great knowledge and a great persy. It is a vast amount of walking as well, unless you opt to take a cab and meet up again at the Prado.
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Robert_h
Jun 4, 2024
Nice tour……BUT - I would give our guide Marta a 5 but the reason I’m giving a 3 is our tour time was changed from 9:30 to 11:45 am the day before . Yes, things happen, but this affected our entire day. After our tour of the Royal Palace, we had to kill over an hour before the Prado tour, walking around in the heat of the day. Marta did her best to find shady spots to walk.
Also, Viator needs to invest some money and get better headsets. If Marta was up ahead of the group or turned her head, we could not hear her. Would also be better if tour group was limited to 15 or less. Too many people to keep track of.
Overall, tour was very good.
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Stacy_c
Jun 1, 2024
Racing tour - Overall, it was okay BUT: the guide walked very fast and did not wait for the eldery people in the group. Her english was fonctionnal but she is not fully fluent. It was not a walk to Prado, it was a RACE!
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Angela_e
May 31, 2024
Such a disappointment - This was such a disappointment. First the tour was supposed to start at 9:45 but the day before they told us it was moved to 11:30. It wasn't ideal but we went with it as they said it had to do with getting palace tickets. When we got to the meeting point a little before the start time, they were not ready to go. The audio equipment was still being tested and a lot of it didn't work so they spent more time fixing it. The earbuds they gave us for the audio equipment was reused which was gross. We started walking to the palace (it was a large group not a small group) the guide started to talk in his microphone and still it didn't work. We had to wait for someone from the office to come and trade it out. Finally we got to the Royal Palace and started our tour. The guide sounded bored and like he wasn't that excited to be there. He told us very few interesting details about what we were seeing - we had to look up facts on google to learn more. After the palace we started a 1 hour walk to the Prado museum. I didn't understand this was a walking tour and my family (7 of us of all ages) was bored and hungry. We were not allowed to stop for food even though the tour went straight through lunch. When we to the Prado we asked the guide to give us our museum tickets and we turned in our audio equipment. We strolled through the Prado on our own, but were so hungry that we didn't really get the full experience. The only good thing is we did get to see the palace and the Prado which were both beautiful. But we could have done this on our own and had a better experience.
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