TANDEM Cultural Program: Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando

The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando was inaugurated in 1752 with the aim of fostering artistic creativity, as well as the study of art.
with the aim of promoting artistic creativity, as well as the study, dissemination and protection of the arts in Spain, particularly painting, sculpture, architecture and music.

Its impressive art collections, which in this visit this visit we will be able to contemplate, span more than four centuries of history, with works by such famous painters as El Greco, Velazquez, Goya, Sorolla, Picasso or Juan Gris.

Because of the relevance of his works, this Academy is considered the second most important second most important art gallery in Madrid, after the Prado Museum.

The splendid building that houses it deserves special importance, built in 1773 and remodeled over the over the centuries.