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El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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Re: El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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I may be biaised but I believe this "tour" is not good. Not immersive enough. Just not really something we want as client. - The moving/walking part is just bad. Even Matterport does much better with its technology. - The zooming-on-painting part is good though. The point : I am building a much more immersive technology . Here is an small example. https://free-visit.net/fr/demo01 If you like this visit, and if you kn…

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Re: El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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For anyone planning a visit to Spain, I can't recommend Madrid highly enough. I wasn't sure what to expect from the city, but it might be my favorite I've ever been to. Madrid is beautiful, clean, walkable, and very welcoming. The food was all amazing and it seemed like we never had to wait for a table. I had a great time in Barcelona, but I'd recommend Madrid over Barcelona in a heartbeat.

I loved them both for different reasons, I went last year for the first time. As another commenter said Madrid felt very imperial, and as you say was beautiful, clean, and walkable. Barcelona felt more arty and had a great coastal vibe to it. I would go back to either in a heartbeat!

Re: El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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For anyone planning a visit to Spain, I can't recommend Madrid highly enough. I wasn't sure what to expect from the city, but it might be my favorite I've ever been to. Madrid is beautiful, clean, walkable, and very welcoming. The food was all amazing and it seemed like we never had to wait for a table. I had a great time in Barcelona, but I'd recommend Madrid over Barcelona in a heartbeat.

Madrid: They don't have a river, a beach or ancient ruins. What they have is a living city and people who love it.

Re: El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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For anyone planning a visit to Spain, I can't recommend Madrid highly enough. I wasn't sure what to expect from the city, but it might be my favorite I've ever been to. Madrid is beautiful, clean, walkable, and very welcoming. The food was all amazing and it seemed like we never had to wait for a table. I had a great time in Barcelona, but I'd recommend Madrid over Barcelona in a heartbeat.

Seconded. I lived in Madrid for 5 years. Best years of my life. Eventually I moved to London for work and my quality of life took a hit.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd recommend Valencia in addition to Madrid. I can't say I enjoyed Barcelona that much, it felt too touristy. Valencia had a wonderful balance of tourism, low prices, food, and waterfront.

Honestly, they’re all great. Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville and Bilbao. I had almost no idea about Spain before I moved to Europe and soon realised that it is a friendly place with amazing reasonably priced food and some of the most amazing artwork. Every new city has these qualities and adds its own stories and beautiful architecture. Also Spain is to gin and tonic what New York is to pizza and Australia/New Z…

I am from Spain and your last paragraph made me chuckle.

Not that long ago gin and tonic was considered an old person's drink and there were very few brands available, but 10~15 years ago it exploded in popularity. All of sudden you could find a million brands of gin and another million of tonic water, even in small villages, and bartenders started to take its preparation quite seriously.

And of course I have several friends who brag about drinking it before it was cool xD

Re: El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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For anyone planning a visit to Spain, I can't recommend Madrid highly enough. I wasn't sure what to expect from the city, but it might be my favorite I've ever been to. Madrid is beautiful, clean, walkable, and very welcoming. The food was all amazing and it seemed like we never had to wait for a table. I had a great time in Barcelona, but I'd recommend Madrid over Barcelona in a heartbeat.

Hot in the summer. Killer nightlife. It will not take a tourist long to figure out the point of siesta.

I have met many foreigners from Northern countries who made fun of siesta... until they stayed in Spain for a summer, then they understood it very quickly xD

Re: El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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For anyone planning a visit to Spain, I can't recommend Madrid highly enough. I wasn't sure what to expect from the city, but it might be my favorite I've ever been to. Madrid is beautiful, clean, walkable, and very welcoming. The food was all amazing and it seemed like we never had to wait for a table. I had a great time in Barcelona, but I'd recommend Madrid over Barcelona in a heartbeat.

Hot in the summer. Killer nightlife. It will not take a tourist long to figure out the point of siesta.

> The point of siesta

Nobody takes siestas in Spain but the elderly, children and people without A/C in hot zones in summer, and I suppose in some rural towns as well.

Re: El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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For anyone planning a visit to Spain, I can't recommend Madrid highly enough. I wasn't sure what to expect from the city, but it might be my favorite I've ever been to. Madrid is beautiful, clean, walkable, and very welcoming. The food was all amazing and it seemed like we never had to wait for a table. I had a great time in Barcelona, but I'd recommend Madrid over Barcelona in a heartbeat.

I also prefer Madrid, which I believe is really under-rated, but Barcelona is superb as well. Sadly, Barcelona is a bit too hyped and gentrified. It suffers from the same kind of issues SF has. Both are great in terms of access to an inexpensive talent pool.

Tech workers here are paid so much less than they should be; there's tons of unemployment only to earn 15k/yr when theyre at work. Salaries like this are a joke and should rise

Re: El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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For anyone planning a visit to Spain, I can't recommend Madrid highly enough. I wasn't sure what to expect from the city, but it might be my favorite I've ever been to. Madrid is beautiful, clean, walkable, and very welcoming. The food was all amazing and it seemed like we never had to wait for a table. I had a great time in Barcelona, but I'd recommend Madrid over Barcelona in a heartbeat.

Madrid: They don't have a river, a beach or ancient ruins. What they have is a living city and people who love it.

What about Manzanares river.
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