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Tourism in Madrid: Reina Sofía National Art Museum

Posteado el September 30, 2007 - Categorizado en Madrid Tourism, Madrid Tourism News, Madrid Tourism Promotion

reina-sofia-museum_07.jpgAn original setting
The museum is located in the old General Hospital built by architect Sabatini under order of Charles III of Spain, designated Historic-Artistic Monument in 1977. It is home to one of the world’s most highly esteemed permanent collections.
Partial view of museum, with lifts
The museum’s collections come from two sources, the old MEAC (Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art) collections and acquisitions made by the museum itself. Not forgetting the works left by Catalonian artists Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró. The permanent collection is located on the second floor, divided up into rooms dedicated to Nonell, Anglada Camarasa, Iturrino, Zuloaga, Solana and María Blanchard, amongst other Spanish painters of the beginning of the 20th century; the Cubist movement, Picasso, Dalí, Miró, and a room devoted to “Ideas” (Propuestas), as its epigraph reads. Temporary exhibitions take place at the museum’s main venue, in Velázquez Palace and the Crystal Palace. The latest trends by the most novel artists are presented at the so-called “Espacio UNO”, which occupies the ground floor of the main building. Picasso’s “Guernica” is amongst the most significant works to be seen here.
The museum has been extended in 2005, with new exhibition areas. The area devoted to the permanent collection has been extended by more than 50%, making the Reina Sofia one of the largest contemporary art museums in the world today. The extension comprises three buildings, mainly dedicated to temporary collections. They also house one auditorium with capacity for 500 people and another smaller one with 200 seats, along with a large arts and humanities library.
Museums
National Museum.
Artistic style: Contemporary Art.
Museum subject matter: Modern Art.
Information for visits
Timetables: Wednesday to Saturday, Mondays and public holidays, 10am-9pm. Sundays, 10am-2.30pm. Closed: Tuesdays, 1 and 6 January, 1 May, 9 September, 9 November, 24, 25 and 31 December.
Entry fee:
General admission: €6. Reduced: 50% discount (students and Youth Card holders, with ID). Free: over 65s, retirees, unemployed persons, under 18s with ID, Saturdays (2.30-9pm), Sundays, 18 May, 12 October and 6 December.
Source: spain.info

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Cultural tourism in Madrid: The tourists of the Museum of the Prado

Posteado el September 1, 2007 - Categorizado en Madrid Tourism, Madrid Tourism News, Madrid: Arts and Culture

When a great temporary exhibition is celebrated, the Museum of the Prado (Madrid, Spain) receives more national visitors (57%) who foreign (43%). On the contrary, the permanent collection receives more foreign visitors in practically inverse proportion. Most of the Spanish public who visit comes it from the Community of Madrid (58%), Andalusia (9%), Catalonia (6%) and Castile and Leon (6%). On the other hand, the United States (17%) and Japan (14%) lead the ranking of foreign visitors, according to data of the Institute of Tourist Studies (IET).

Between the drawn conclusions of the surveys, it emphasizes the one that the temporary exhibitions of the museum act like a powerful center of attraction and fidelización of public, being his mainly national visitors, against the dynamics registered in it visits to the permanent collection.

With respect to the geographic origin of the public of the Museum, the report keeps awake that, between the foreigners, the United States is located in the first position of the ranking of visitors, followed of Japan, Italy, France, United Kingdom, Germany and México.Fuente: hosteltur.com

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Cultural tourism in Spain: A summer to all jazz

Posteado el September 1, 2007 - Categorizado en Madrid Tourism, Madrid Tourism News, Madrid Tourism Promotion

A good part of the festivales of the summer gets dressed jazz. There are them, like the encounter of Vitoria and Guecho (Spain), goes to the loving anthologies that the sort supplies anywhere in the world to make its posters. Others, however - and it is case of San Sebastián, Viajazz or Galapajazz- seems that they wanted to give to answer with his philosophy programatoria to diverse musical exigencies, although always - there is reconocérselo- from the rigor and the quality.
No longer it can say that Vitoria and San Sebastián face the development of their respective trigésimoprimeras editions clear vocation to grow and to take root themselves more in the city, because everybody knows that that aspiration has been confirmed for years. After a preliminary delivery in Getxo, that begins with the trio formed by Aldo Romano, Louis Sclavis and Henri Texier next the 4 of July, the great celebration of the jazz getxoetarra enters matter with some supplies that, by attractive, no fan would have to lose itself. Source: abc.es

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Tourist promotion Madrid Spain: `Global Madrid'

Posteado el September 1, 2007 - Categorizado en Madrid Places, Madrid Tourism, Madrid Tourism News

The first Governing body of the City council of Madrid in the new municipal mandate approved the creation of the Office of Strategy and Action the Global International `Madrid’, inspired by the model of promotion in the outside that cities like Paris, London, New York or Tokyo apply. This organism will depend on Vicealcaldía that directs Manuel Cobo and to the front they will have to until now coordinating of Economy, Ignacio Niño.

The City council indicated that “in this globalizado century XXI, a city like Madrid, that aspires to the category of world-wide metropolis, must as much have a global and international vision in its direction as in its strategy and managementâ€. For that reason, it has bet to extend the performances and own works of “traditional†the international relations and has decided “to complement them with new approaches, strategies, programs and tools able to guarantee and to assure a solid international positioning the city of Madrid in the next decadesâ€. Source: hosteltur.com

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Tourist promotion Spain: South Korean young people

Posteado el September 1, 2007 - Categorizado en Madrid Tourism, Madrid Tourism News, Madrid Tourism Promotion

Spain has made in Seoul the first scale of a tour by South Korea, Taiwan and Japan, with which the Ministry of Tourism wants to harness new markets. The visit of the Spanish delegation to the South Korean capital agrees with the beginning of the direct flight of Korean Air that will connect Seoul and Madrid as of the next Saturday.

The director of the department again Market of the Ministry of Tourism, Galician Carlos, assures that South Korea is one of the “high-priority markets†of Spain in Asia, since annually it receives the visit of between 40,000 and 50,000 South Koreans. One is a tourist profile with an elevated cost and that does not suffer estacionalidad. Source: hosteltur.com

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