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Parque del Retiro vs Museo Lazaro Galdiano
Both Retiro Park and Museo Lazaro Galdiano are highly recommended by professional travelers. Overall, Museo Lazaro Galdiano ranks significantly higher than Retiro Park. Museo Lazaro Galdiano has a TripExpert Score of 91 with recommendations from 8 reviews such as Frommer's, Lonely Planet and goop.
Parque del Retiro
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Between C. Alfonso XII and Avenida de Menendez Pelayo, Madrid
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Fodor's
"Madrid's crowning park is a vast expanse of green encompassing formal gardens, fountains, lakes, exhibition halls, children's play areas, outdoor cafés, and a Puppet Theater."
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Frommer's
"Originally a playground for the Spanish monarchs and their guests, this park extends over 140 hectares (350 acres)."
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Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"One of the few vestiges of the 17th-century Palacio del Buen Retiro, this somewhat austere building overlooking the Parque del Buen Retiro is run as an academic library."
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Travel + Leisure
"Madrid’s answer to New York’s Central Park is a warren of paths carved in green with a large, central man-made lake and plenty of space (330 acres) for lolling about."
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Michelin Guide
2 Stars
"A green space where... you can row on the (artificial) lake under the indifferent gaze of King Alfonso XI, or join the locals running along the pathways."
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Museo Lazaro Galdiano
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Serrano, 122, Madrid
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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."
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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."
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Travel + Leisure
"Located off the typical tourist route in Salamanca, the little-known Museo Lázaro Galdiano displays more than 12,000 works of art."
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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."
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Let's Go
"The vast majority of his collection consists of stiff 16th- to 18th-century religious portraits and scenes. "
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