Fútbol

After walking from one room to another in the museum, our feet decidedly needed a rest. Given that we had a little while before we had to be back at the train station, we grabbed a quick bocadillo and plopped in the plaza directly in front of the museum to catch an impromptu soccer game. Ya gotta love Spain for its aficionados of fútbol!

Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

Housed in a building that once served as an 18th century hospital, the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía is Spain’s most prominent collection of modern Spanish art, dating from the 20th century to the 1980s.

While the museum features the occasional non-Spaniard artist, the majority of the collection is strictly Peninsular. To give you an example of some of the art work that we saw, the last three pictures in this sequence are "Guernica" by Pablo Picasso, "Caracol, mujer, flor, estrella" by Joan Miró, and "El gran masturbador" by Salvador Dalí.

To see further explore the collection, visit the museum's virtual tour:

http://www.museoreinasofia.es/coleccion/presentacion-coleccion.html