<P> The Museo del Prado is a museum and art gallery that features one of the world's finest collections of European art, from the 12th century to the early 19th century, based on the former Spanish Royal Collection . The collection currently comprises around 7,600 paintings, 1,000 sculptures, 4,800 prints and 8,200 drawings, in addition to a large number of works of art and historic documents . El Prado is one of the most visited museums in the world, and it is considered to be among the greatest museums of art . It has the best collection of artworks by Goya, Velázquez, El Greco, Rubens, Titian, Hieronymus Bosch, José de Ribera and Patinir; and works by Rogier van der Weyden, Raphael Sanzio, Tintoretto, Veronese, Caravaggio, Van Dyck, Albrecht Dürer, Claude Lorrain, Murillo and Zurbarán, among others . </P> <P> The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) is the Spain's national museum of 20th - century art . The museum is mainly dedicated to Spanish art . Highlights of the museum include excellent collections of Spain's greatest 20th - century masters, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Juan Gris and Julio González . Certainly the most famous masterpiece in the museum is Picasso's painting Guernica . The Reina Sofía also hosts a free - access library specializing in art, with a collection of over 100,000 books, over 3,500 sound recordings and almost 1,000 videos . </P> <P> The Thyssen - Bornemisza Museum is an art museum that fills the historical gaps in its counterparts' collections: in the Prado's case this includes Italian primitives and works from the English, Dutch and German schools, while in the case of the Reina Sofia the Thyssen - Bornemisza collection, once the second largest private collection in the world after the British Royal Collection, includes Impressionists, Expressionists, and European and American paintings from the second half of the 20th century, with over 1,600 paintings . </P> <P> The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando currently functions as a museum and gallery that houses a fine art collection of paintings from the 15th to 20th centuries: Giovanni Bellini, Correggio, Rubens, Zurbarán, Murillo, Goya, Juan Gris, Pablo Serrano . The academy is also the headquarters of the Madrid Academy of Art . Francisco Goya was once one of the academy's directors, and, its alumni include Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Antonio López García, Juan Luna, and Fernando Botero . </P>

Spain is the second most visited country in the world