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El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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Re: El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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Post by Xenoamorphous »

singleshot_ wrote: post #36
cbdumas wrote: post #16

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.

We moved to Madrid a few years ago. Summers are incredibly long and unbearable, to be honest, and it's not getting better. We have a 2 year old daughter and it sucks not being able to take her to the park for weeks because it's scorching hot.

Other than that, we like the city, and especially our neighbourhood.

Re: El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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Post by jillesvangurp »

cbdumas wrote: post #16

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 is indeed very nice. Perfect destination in early spring or late autumn as winters are very short there. Avoid in the summer as it gets stupidly hot there. One reason I like it is that it's far away from the beaches and package tourists. It's a huge modern city. And there's plenty to see. I love the public parks there. There's a huge new park on top of the inner ring road which they partially covered up. Perfect place to hang out on a warm day. Also did wonders for the nearby neighborhood which are now quiet and a lot less smelly than they used to be.

There are a couple of other museums well worth visiting near El Prado. El Prado can get very busy because it's on everybody's list of things to visit. I've been there on a quiet day at some point and it's very enjoyable. But when you have to queue up for 45 minutes just to get in, it's probably a lot less nice. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum has a pretty amazing collection and is right across the street. And down the street is the Reina Sofia, which has a nice modern art collection (think lots of Miro, Picasso, Dali, etc.).

If you have time and a car, driving around Spain is very enjoyable. I've seen most of it's larger and smaller cities over the years.

Re: El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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Post by raverbashing »

electrozav wrote: post #49
nextos wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

No, your avg tech worker is not going to be making 15k/yr. Maybe around 40k/yr and that would be an "average" salary for a non-senior position.

Re: El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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Post by pvaldes »

cbdumas wrote: post #16

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.

There is stuff to see and do in Madrid for months, but Madrid is the center in a cobweb of roads. This means that maybe 40% of the country or so is reachable from here in a reasonable time.

Distances in Spain are different than in US. Some cities are connected from here in an interval of less than two hours (one-way) by fast train AVE so reserving one day to explore another city as a bonus is doable with some extra work. This comprises Valencia, Salamanca, Burgos or Cordoba. You could basically go from one point to the other coin of Iberia in a day by train if you don't mind to burn a day looking at the landscape. Or sleep in the train and wake up in a different coastal city in a different Sea. Is just a question of money and planning.

In the same way if you go to Barcelona I would strongly advise to explore near destinations in Pyrenees or the South of France also.

Re: El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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Post by lentil_soup »

jillesvangurp wrote: post #52
cbdumas wrote: post #16

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 is indeed very nice. Perfect destination in early spring or late autumn as winters are very short there. Avoid in the summer as it gets stupidly hot there. One reason I like it is that it's far away from the beaches and package tourists. It's a huge modern city. And there's plenty to see. I love the public parks there. There's a huge new park on top of the inner ring road which they partially covered up. Perfe…

the roads are really great, they're kept in great shape. The train, although Madrid centric is amazing as well, stupidly fast and not that expensive anymore.

Re: El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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Post by raverbashing »

bahmboo wrote: post #20
totalview wrote: post #12

I wonder what camera sensor was used to produce this. A DSLR on a pano/360 rig? Or something purpose built like a Weiss AG Civetta 230MP 360 scanning camera.

They also have x-rays of the individual works. Those seem to have been done in a separate process from the visible photos. Click on the camera icon next to a piece and there is then an additional selection for x-ray view.

Well, yes you need to take the painting out for an xray view

Re: El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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Post by noduerme »

Xenoamorphous wrote: post #50
noduerme wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Sure. It's kind of a creek like the Los Angeles river. The point is that the city of Madrid is not built around rivers (like NYC or London or Prague).

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Post by mpeg »

raverbashing wrote: post #53
electrozav wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

No, your avg tech worker is not going to be making 15k/yr. Maybe around 40k/yr and that would be an "average" salary for a non-senior position.

What a weird take to defend tech salaries in Spain, I'd love to move but the very top salaries for my level cap around 80-90k EUR so it'd be quite a big drop even compared to the UK

Re: El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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Post by aba_cz »

I know that not everybody has time, money, opportunity, etc. to go to Del Prado to see art with their own eyes but I have to say that seeing photos on my monitor before and seeing it in reality were completely different and not not transferable experiences. The light, those details and often even size of the canvas which is measured in meters and not centimeters are all incredible. For example Las Meninas is basically 3x3 meters or you can easily spend 1 hour looking at The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch. I will remember this visit till the end of my life.

Re: El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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Post by traceroute66 »

cbdumas wrote: post #16

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 had a great time in Barcelona, but I'd recommend Madrid over Barcelona in a heartbeat.

The trouble with Barcelona these days is the tourists have ruined it. Both the tourists themselves, and the city itself pandering to the tourists.

I avoid the place like the plague these days.

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