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Palacio Real de El Pardo vs Museo Lazaro Galdiano

Both are rated very highly by professionals. Overall, Museo Lazaro Galdiano ranks significantly higher than Palacio Real de El Pardo. Museo Lazaro Galdiano comes in at 91 with positive reviews from 8 sources like goop, Let's Go and Frommer's.

Palacio Real de El Pardo
Palacio Real de El Pardo
8 / 10
C/ Manuel Alonso s/n, El Pardo, 28048 Madrid
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Fodor's Fodor's
"The Royal Palace awes visitors with its sheer size and monumental presence that unmistakably stands out against the city's silhouetted background." Full review
Lonely Planet Lonely Planet
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"An Italianate baroque colossus with some 2800 rooms, of which around 50 are open to the public." Full review
Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure
"Located on the site of a ninth-century Moorish fortress, the Palacio Real (Royal Palace) is the official residence of the Spanish royal family." Full review
Frommer's Frommer's
"The palace where General Franco lived and performed his duties as head of state for 35 years (till his death in Nov 1975)." Full review
Time Out Time Out
"In addition to its main role today as a diplomatic rendezvous, the palace is partially open to the public and there are tours of its ornate and gaudy interior with its ornamental frescoes." Full review
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Museo Lazaro Galdiano
Museo Lazaro Galdiano
9 / 10
Serrano, 122, Madrid
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Fodor's Fodor's
"This stately mansion of writer and editor José Lázaro Galdiano (1862–1947)...has decorative items and paintings by Bosch, El Greco, Murillo, and Goya, among others." Full review
Lonely Planet Lonely Planet
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"This is just the sort of place you expect to find along Calle de Serrano, with an imposing early-20th-century Italianate stone mansion set discreetly back from the street." Full review
Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure
"Located off the typical tourist route in Salamanca, the little-known Museo Lázaro Galdiano displays more than 12,000 works of art." Full review
Time Out Time Out
"This unjustifiably little-known museum holds the extraordinarily eclectic collection of 15,000 paintings and objets d'art, covering 24 centuries, that was accumulated over 70 years." Full review
Let's Go Let's Go
"The vast majority of his collection consists of stiff 16th- to 18th-century religious portraits and scenes. " Full review
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