Source: Prado Museum

This month and like the rest of the months, we had chosen a masterpiece of the Museo del Prado for our 365 days in Madrid, but current events have led us to change our minds. During the month of November the Prado Museum and the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment have organized a educational itinerary to show the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park through the works of great painters such as Velázquez, Goya, Beruete o Muñoz Degrain. An early tribute to the celebration of the centenary of the first National Parks Law in Spain. This law was approved on December 8, 1916 and placed Spain as one of the pioneer countries in Europe in its commitment to the protection of nature. This law was what allowed two years later, in 1918, to create the first two Spanish national parks, that of the Covadonga Mountain and of Ordesa.

The exhibition ranges from the first pictorial representations of the Guadarrama, probably in the works of Velázquez, to the moment in which the painting shows us the recovery of the Sierra de Guadarrama as a natural space and axis of the regenerationist policy that marked public life at the end of the 19th century. Guadarrama was considered the “backbone of Spain”, it symbolically embodied the values defended by the 98 Generation and that so deeply marked the ideals of Free Institution of Education.

Without a doubt an excellent opportunity to return to the Museum.

List of works Discovering the Sierra de Guadarrama in the Prado
Philip IV, on horseback. Velazquez
Prince Baltasar Carlos, on horseback. Velazquez
Prince Baltasar Carlos, hunter. Velazquez
The boy from Vallecas. Velazquez
Charles III, hunter. Goya
Spring. Goya
View of Guadarrama from the Plantío de los Infantes. Beruete
Landscape of El Pardo. Beruete
Landscape of El Pardo when the fog dissipates. Muñoz Degrain

ADDITIONAL wORKS
The jester Don Diego de Acedo, El Primo. Velazquez
View of the Monastery of El Escorial. Michel Ange Houasse
The blind man's hen Goya
Blind man's chicken (sketch). Goya
Valley in the Sierra de Guadarrama. Carlos de Haes
Hanging cross in El Escorial. Martin Rico
Two pine trees in the Guadarrama. Martin Rico
A landscape of Guadarrama. Martin Rico
Pornos del Guadarrama. Jaime Morera

We hope you like the itinerary, we accompany the images of the canvases with a photograph taken this morning from Puerto de la Morcuera with the Fuente Cossio and the Peñalara peak under a splendid day.

A abrazo.