An English-language private day covering the Prado's masterworks and the Royal Palace's opulent halls.
A private, English-language half-day combining the Prado Museum's highlights with a guided tour of the Royal Palace of Madrid.
Meet your guide for a tour of the Prado Museum focused on Velázquez, Goya, and Rubens, then walk to the Royal Palace, passing Puerta del Sol along the way, for a guided tour of its décor and architecture with preferential access throughout.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
A private vehicle and driver pick you up directly from your central Madrid hotel — Voyzo's standard door-to-door private pickup.
Included throughout both the museum and the palace.
Pass through Madrid's central square en route.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private, English-language half-day combining the Prado Museum's highlights with a guided tour of the Royal Palace of Madrid. Meet your guide for a tour of the Prado Museum focused on Velázquez, Goya, and Rubens, then walk to the Royal Palace, passing Puerta del Sol along the way, for a guided tour of its décor and architecture with preferential access throughout.
The walk between the Prado and the Royal Palace naturally passes through Puerta del Sol, one of the most symbolically loaded squares in Spain — it marks Kilómetro Cero, the official reference point from which all of Spain's radial road network is measured, and it's also where Madrid's own clock tower rings in the New Year on television each December 31st, with Spaniards nationwide eating twelve grapes in time with its twelve chimes. It's a small detour with an outsized amount of genuine civic history packed into one plaza.
At the Prado end of the tour, the focus lands on Velázquez, Goya, and Rubens — three painters working in very different royal and artistic contexts but all represented here in genuine depth, since the museum's founding collection was built directly from what the Spanish Crown had acquired since the 16th century rather than assembled afterward from the open market. At the Royal Palace end, the same royal thread continues: the palace replaced the old Alcázar fortress after its 1734 fire, was built out between 1735 and 1755, and today holds more than 3,000 rooms across 135,000-plus square metres, making it the largest functioning royal palace in Western Europe by floor area.
Running the tour entirely in English (rather than a generic, loosely-translated script) matters more than it might sound for a day this history-dense — the connections between a painter's royal patron and the rooms that patron once lived in are exactly the kind of detail that gets lost in a rushed translation, and preferential access at both the museum and the palace means less time spent standing in line rebuilding momentum between them.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.