Hints and tips:
...The hotel is also just opposite El Retiro park — perfect for a morning stroll around the lake — and the Prado museum, so you can pop in to see works by Velázquez or Goya during your stay, or do some shopping...
...Caviar and gold taps are all very well, but 15 minutes alone with Velázquez’s “Las Meninas” might be a luxury greater than either....
...Gabriel García Márquez called Cuba “the most dance-orientated society on earth”. Cubans dance with fluid elegance. They swim through their music....
...Painting from mass-circulation posters of Old Masters, including Velázquez and Vermeer, she realised that she never wanted to paint from life....
...They were a must, he was told, for anyone like himself about to travel up the Magdalena river, Gabriel García Márquez’s fateful stream....
...“Given the nature of peer-to-peer platforms, it would be difficult if not impossible to capture their contribution in official employment statistics,” argued Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, raising a good...
...The candid contours of his face framed by his shoulder and a broad-brimmed hat are the fruit of a youth spent copying Velázquez at the Prado....
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