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Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza vs Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales
Convent of the Royal Barefoot Nuns and Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum are both rated very highly by professional reviewers. On balance, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum ranks significantly better than Convent of the Royal Barefoot Nuns. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum comes in at 97 with praise from 10 publications like concierge.com, Frommer's and Michelin Guide.
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
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Paseo del Prado, 8, 28014 Madrid, Spain
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Fodor's
"Opened in 1992, the Thyssen occupies spacious galleries filled with natural light in the late-18th-century Villahermosa Palace (itself finished in 1771)."
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Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"One of the most extraordinary private collections of predominantly European art in the world, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is a worthy member of Madrid’s ‘Golden Triangle’ of art."
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Travel + Leisure
"The Thyssen’s pieces, purchased by the Spanish state from a private collector in 1992, represent a tremendous breadth of European painters from the 14th to 21st centuries."
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Time Out
"The private collection of the late Baron Hans-Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza is widely considered the most important in the world."
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Condé Nast Traveler
"The third leg in Madrid's "golden triangle of art"... one of the world's great private collections, and includes everything from Old Masters to 20th-century Cubists."
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Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales
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Plaza de las Descalzas Reales, s/n, 28013 Madrid
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"Its plain, brick-and-stone facade hides paintings by Francisco de Zurbarán, Titian, and Pieter Brueghel the Elder."
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Frommer's
"In the mid-16th century, aristocratic women -- either disappointed in love or "wanting to be the bride of Christ" -- stole away to this convent to take the veil."
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Lonely Planet
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"The grim, prisonlike walls of this one-time palace keep modern Madrid at bay and offer no hint that behind the sober plateresque facade lies a sumptuous stronghold of the faith."
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Travel + Leisure
"This collection of fantastic, if occasionally brutally themed, religious art, including pieces by Peter Paul Rubens, is in an appropriately creaky and forbidding 16th-century working convent."
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Michelin Guide
2 Stars
"Home to a remarkable museum of religious art... also includes numerous canvases by Zurbarán, Bruegel the Elder."
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