Until September 6 The world-famous Prado art museum comes to Puerto de Mazarrón!

50 artistic masterpieces on the seafront promenade in Puerto de Mazarrón

The touring exhibition “El Prado en las Calles” has been spending a few months in various locations in the Region of Murcia this spring and summer, and moves on to Puerto de Mazarrón from 24th July until 6th September.

During these six weeks seafront prom enade is being transformed into an open-air art gallery as prints of some 50 paintings are displayed in the area near the marina, close to where the 45-metre Ferris wheel has been set up for the summer, including some of the most iconic and important works which hang on the walls of El Prado in Madrid. The exhibition is made possible by the support of the Fundación Iberdrola, and along with the prints the materials supplied also include catalogues explaining the history and significance of the paintings which can be seen.

The artists whose work is featured include Goya, El Greco, Sorolla, Rubens, Rembrandt, Durer, El Bosco and Caravaggio.

This stay in Puerto de Mazarrón brings to a close a season during which the paintings have been seen in Cehegín, the city of Murcia, Lorca and San Javier, continuing an ongoing tour which began in 2019 and has already attracted large numbers of people in 58 municipalities in the regions of Castilla La-Mancha, Castilla y León, Extremadura, Andalucía and Valencia.

As representatives of Iberdrola have stressed at previous venues, this is by no means the only contribution made in recent years to the cultural life of the Region of Murcia, other actions having included the new illumination of the Basílica de la Vera Cruz in Caravaca and the ongoing collaborations with the Roman Theatre Museum in Cartagena and the Museo Salzillo in the regional capital.

Images: Iberdrola, Ayto Mazarrón

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