Museo de Bellas Artes

Bright and spacious, this gallery ranks among Spain’s best. Highlights include magnificent late-medieval altarpieces, and works by several Spanish masters, including some great Goya portraits, a haunting Velázquez self-portrait, an El Greco John the Baptist and works by Murillo, Ribera and the Ribaltas, father and son. In a dedicated wing, an excellent series of rooms focuses on the great, versatile Valencian painter Joaquín Sorolla (1863–1923), who, at his best, seemed to capture the spirit of an age through sensitive portraiture.