Museo Nacional del Prado

This guide to the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid follows its collection through the Spanish Civil War, when staff evacuated masterpieces by Velazquez, Goya, Titian and Rubens ahead of the front line, first to Valencia and then toward the French border in a night convoy of trucks with headlights off. You'll hear about the volunteers who carried crates over the mountains by hand and what awaited them at the border in Geneva. A reminder, as you stand before Las Meninas, of the journey it took to get back to this wall.