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200 years of the Prado Museum On November 19th, the Prado Museum celebrated its 200th anniversary. The former Royal Museum, and later the National Museum of Painting and Sculpture, opened its doors for the first time in 1819 with a catalogue of 311 paintings from the Royal Collection, all by Spanish authors, although it housed another 1,510 works from the Royal Sites. Today, more than 8,100 artistic references hang on the walls of Spain's most important art gallery and one of the world's main cultural spaces, and it has the most ex- traordinary works by El Bosco, Titian, El Greco, Rubens, Velázquez and Goya, thanks to the collector's efforts of the 16th and 17th century monarchs. C O M U N I C A T I O N 48 C O M U N I C A T I O N