Skansen Open-Air Museum

Skansen is a favorite both among Stockholmers and visitors passing through, and it’s a perfect family outing. This is the oldest open-air museum in the world and also the Stockholm zoo, with animals native to Scandinavia.

Skansen Open-Air Museum

The Royal Palace

Welcome to one of the largest palaces in Europe! The Royal Palace is the official residence of His Majesty the King of Sweden, with over 600 rooms.

The Palace is open to the public and offers no less than five museums. The Palace was largely built during the eighteenth century in the Italian Baroque style, on the spot where the “Tre Kronor” castle burned down in 1697.

The Royal Palace

Fra Angelico and the Rise of the Florentine Renaissance

Curated by Carl Brandon Strehlke (Curator Emeritus, Philadelphia Museum of Art), this exhibition will investigate the beginnings of the Florentine Renaissance art in the 1420s and 1430s with the friar painter Fra Angelico at the center of the story. 

Fra Angelico is one of the great masters of Renaissance art and responsible for its early achievements in Florence alongside the painters Masaccio, Masolino, Uccello and Filippo Lippi, the sculptors Ghiberti, Donatello, and Nanni di Banco, and the architect Brunelleschi.

Fra Angelico and the Rise of the Florentine Renaissance

Olga Picasso

Pablo Picasso’s relationship with his first wife Olga Khokhlova can be seen in his paintings. From the birth of their son Paul until the appearance of Marie-Thérèse Walter, who will become the painter’s lover, this exhibition shows a selection of paintings, drawings, furniture, written documents and photographs that show the development of their relationship.

Olga Picasso

Spain Dances Flamenco

Ballet Flamenco de Madrid is back with a renewed show that brings together more than 20 artists accompanied by live music.  For their 19th season they present a selection of audience’s favorite choreographies with a show that exhibits emotions through dance breaking with all the clichés that Spanish dance is just flamenco.

Luciano Ruiz directs this extraordinary show with choreographies and special collaboration by the Spanish flamenco dancer Sara Lezana. A great cast of the best Spanish dancers feature typical Spanish dances and choreographies with a special attention to flamenco.

Spain Dances Flamenco
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