An initial day of explorations presented juxtapositions of the old and the new, an aspect of which there appears to be no fear. The Prado Museum’s premier collection of paintings by Velasquez, Goya, and El Greco (with a new building addition by Rafael Moneo) helped put the country’s culture into historical perspective. The Caixa Forum, with its skin of metal and plants, offered itself up as an contemporary icon and has been embraced by the city. Designed by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, the Forum is a venue for art, architecture and design exhibitions; a treat for us was one on Russian Constructivist works.
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