While in Madrid, I decided to visit a museum - which happens to be located near my hotel and near Atocha railway station.
The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía is Spain's national museum of 20th-century art. The museum was officially inaugurated on September 10, 1992, and is named for Queen Sofía.
The queue before opening in the morning
The most famous painting in the museum is Guernica by Pablo Picasso, painted in 1937.
Picasso painted Guernica at his home in Paris in response to the 26 April 1937 bombing of Guernica, a town in the Basque Country in northern Spain, by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Upon completion, Guernica was exhibited at the Spanish pavilion at the 1937 Paris International Exposition and other venues worldwide. The touring exhibition was used to raise funds for Spanish war relief. The painting soon became widely acclaimed, helping to bring worldwide attention to the Spanish Civil War that took place from 1936 to 1939. (Wikipedia)
Just outside the museum
Atocha station
View from my hotel room at Reina Sofia museum
Atocha Cercanias station
Ballons not allowed
Avlo train near Atocha
El Casar station
333 388
Madrid view from Cerro del Tío Pío
Visiting Pinto Station
Valdemorro
333 365
Class 333.3 locomotives were produced between 2000 and 2003, there are 95 units of this type
256 016 from Alpha Trains and Medway
6006
Tramesa Steel
269 351
253 039
253 042
256 012 at Pinto
333 381
Plaza Castilla in Madrid
Cuatro Torres
Monument of Mahatma Gandhi
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