Throning above Trafalgar Square and Nelson’s Column you can find the National Gallery, a palace of art. Entrance is free of charge, on Friday evening the opening hours are especially long and you can loose yourself in the many rooms of this vast art museum. The exhibition contains more than 2,300 works from the 13th to the 19th century and was opened in 1824 which sounds early, but is rather later: while at Firenze, München and Paris large art collections were made available to the public the British royals kept their treasury for themselves for a longer time. These days the National Gallery of London could finally celebrate its 200th anniversary.
The building itself would be worth a visit with its decorations and beautiful colors, but also don’t miss out Sandra Botticellis Venus and Mars, Leonardo da Vincis The Virgin of the Rocks, Titians Bacchus and Ariadne, Carravaggios The Supper at Emmaus, Caspar David Friedrichs Winter Landscape, Vincent van Goghs Sunflowers, Camille Pissaros The Boulevard Montmartre at Night and Claude Monets The Water-Lily Pond. If you still don’t have enough you can walk around the building (ideally counter-clockwise) and you’ll find the National Portrait Gallery which is definitely also worth a visit.
National Gallery
Trafalgar square
London
England
United Kingdom
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