Spain’s capital makes a dazzling pilgrimage for culture lovers. Three world-class museums, venerated as a ‘golden triangle’ of art, allow visitors to revel in as full a breadth and depth of European painting and sculpture as you’ll find on the continent. In addition to this, onto the scene has burst the most important new museum in Europe in some time, adding to what was already a bounty for art fans.
The gigantic Prado Museum, with its vast collection of works by Spanish masters, is indisputably in the city’s celebrated triangle of cultural institutions. Its counterpart