Benidorm is planning dramatized visits to the exhibition ‘El Prado en las Calles’ every weekend in October

The Department of Historical and Cultural Heritage of Benidorm City Council has scheduled dramatised visits to the exhibition ‘The Prado Museum in Benidorm’ every weekend in October, an exhibition that can be visited since last Friday on the Avenida del Mediterráneo and that brings together fifty reproductions of the most emblematic paintings of the Museo Nacional del Prado. The Councillor for Historical and Cultural Heritage, Ana Pellicer, explained that these visits “have the objective of giving visitors an ‘extra’ to the magnificent experience of being able to see in our city works that are part of the history of art such as ‘Las Meninas’, ‘La maja desnuda’, ‘El jardín de las delicias’, ‘El caballero de la mano en el pecho’ and many others, and, in addition, doing so completely free of charge”.

The councillor explained that these dramatised visits will be led by two actors who, “characterised as Diego Velázquez and Francisco de Goya, will accompany the public who visits the exhibition on their journey through the different works, putting themselves in the shoes of these two great painters, who signed several of the paintings on display and who were contemporaries of other authors”. She also explained that, during the tour, the actors “will convey information about the time when the paintings were painted as well as other details, anecdotes or curiosities, thus making the visit much more complete”.

These dramatised visits will take place over the next few weekends until 27 October, the last day on which the exhibition can be seen in Benidorm before beginning its journey through other municipalities in the Valencian Community. Specifically, Ana Pellicer has indicated that they will start this Friday, 4 October, and will be repeated on 5 October, Saturday; 12 and 13 October – Saturday and Sunday –; 18 and 19 October – Friday and Saturday –; and 26 and 27 October – Saturday and Sunday –, with three daily sessions, at 5:30 p.m., 6:15 p.m. and 7 p.m.

The person in charge of Historical and Cultural Heritage has publicly invited citizens and visitors to “take advantage of this unique opportunity to have a little piece of the Prado in Benidorm to be able to enjoy its works in a much closer and more direct way than we can do in the museum itself” and to do so “with these dramatised visits that we are sure will be very popular and will not leave anyone indifferent”.