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Royal collections
Anna Ellis
SPAIN’S King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia will inaugurate the Royal Collections Gallery at the opening ceremony on June 28.
Madrid boasts several worldrenowned galleries, such as the Prado Museum, the ThyssenBornemisza, and the Reina Sofía. However, next month, Spain is poised to unveil one of Europe’s most anticipated cultural highlights of the year: The Royal Collections Gallery.
The new museum will showcase a remarkable assortment of paintings, tapestries, sculptures, decorative art pieces, and royal furniture accumulated by Spanish monarchs over a span of five centuries, over the Hapsburg and Bourbon dynasties of the empire.
BY country, the UK continues to head the list of source countries for the tourist market to Spain with 1.4 million visitors in April. This represents a strong growth of 8.7 per cent compared to the same month in 2022.
France and Germany were the next countries with the most tourists visiting Spain, with more than one million visitors each. Tourist numbers from France grew in April by 26.9 per cent in the annual rate, and those from Germany by 2 per cent.
The exhibition will present 650 selected pieces out of the vast collection of over 150,000 artworks managed by Patrimonio Nacional.
