Today will be decided the next Head of the Olympic Games 2020 and Madrid is one of the favourits. Therefore, I want to talk to you a little bit of Madrid.
Recently, the program “Comando Actualidad” of the Spanish Tv, talked about Madrid and I want to translate this report.
The presenter talks to two men, who are downloading something from a van:
Presenter: “Good morning.How are you. Well, you are assembleing a “chiringuito” just beside of the Museum of El Prado”.
The oldest man: “There is where you have to assembleing things.Come on, boy!”.”We have key-rings, t-shirts….”. “Before, the “chiringuito” was a only a little table….so many years ago, they only sold fans…the boss´mother. It has grown a little bit everything”.
The presenter: “I suppose that like the tourism, who come to El Prado, who has been growing too”.
The oldest man: “Yes, it has been growing too”.
The youngest man: “There are seasons…Now come more tourism from Russia, and tourism from Brazil, who was not seen before”.
The presenter: “From the emerging economies?”.
The youngest man: “Yes. Really. People have more money…”.
The presenter: “Mean…this is an obligatory point of visit for tourists; is not it?”.
The youngest man: “Yes. It is as if you go to Rio de Janeiro and you do not go up to the Corcovado….”.
The presenter: “Because you are 50 meters from El Prado”.
The youngest man: “Yes”.
The presenter: “Is that what tourist like more?”.
The y. man: “But the cheaper”.
The oldest man: “If tourist do not spend, nobody spend”.
The presenter: “At least here there are tourists; you only have to take a look at those who pass”.
The oldest man: “If it fails tourism, it would fail us all”. “Do we raise?”.
The presenter: “How many families live with is sold in this chiringuito?”.
The youngest man: “Right now: seven families”.
The presenter: “60 situations, to be understood. 2100 essential words in English. Have you had to put the batteries with the language?”.
The oldest man: “A little bit, of course. Many times, by sign.
The youngest man to a tourist: “Two for you. All right?”.
The presenter: “Hello. How are you. It draws much attention the store to people coming out of El Prado”.
The owner of the store: “Yes. The truth is yes. People make photographs…”
The presenter: “This store´s owner?”.
The owner: “One of them”.
Note: The store is named: OBJETOS DE ARTE TOLEDANO.
The presenter: “You open the store 52 years ago”.
The owner: “We live three families of it”.
The presenter: “The Museum of El Prado receives almost three million visits each year…”
The owner: “Yes”.
The presenter: “Most of those persons pass over here and the go into the store directly”.
The owner: “Exactly. We also have in the other Museum, The “Queen Sofí”, in Atocha, and here The Thyssen. We are in the triangle of Art”.
The presenter: “Just in the middle. A good place for having a store of souvenirs”.
The presenter: “But yes”. “But look…we have of everything…; we have weapons, which are reproduced as formerly they made”.
The presenter: “And people buy this one…?”.
The owner: “Yes. The truth is that has its public.., there is a public for everything”.
The presenter: “What tourist spent 40 Euros on a replica gun?”.
The owner: “The Chinese, for example is a person who likes very much this kind of gun”. “The key-rings, I think it is by statistical the product more sold in the store. We pass to another important department, that is about the Damasquinado (it is a work of craftsmanship that involves performing figures and drawings by introducing, damascened or inlaid, fine threads of gold and silver of steel or iron, usually blued. Its name comes from the city Damascus, Syria)”.
The presenter: “This one is already sold”.
The owner: “This one is sold, yes”.”What happens is that well…”
The presenter: “12,000 Euros?”
The owner: “12,000 Euros, yes”.
The presenter: “Who has bought it?”.
The owner: “But it has been bought by a person…”
The presenter: “A Spanish?”
The owner: “No, I think it is a Brazilian; she is a stewardess and she comes…she is giving money and when she finis, she takes I, when sendt it to her home, of course”.
The presenter: “Is sold very much this doll typical from Sevilla?.
The owner: “Yes, it is sold…”
The presenter: “The Spanish topic?”.
The owner: “It already fallen sharply. Before it was sold much more; it has fallen, and now enter other fashions, as this resin, but with lots of color and as if it was the whole design of mosaic”.
The presenter: “A lot of swords, shields…”.
The owner: “Here we have medieval footwear, armor, accessories…Here they come from “Aguila Roja” to take some things. Have also become fashionable medieval weddings; people get married and medieval dresses”.
The presenter: “How much cost an armor like this?".
The owner: “2,000 Euros. It is a fully functional armor, you can put it yourself and go out walking on”.
The presenter: “Jose María. Do not you let to make pictures here?".
Jose María: “Look. It does not happen anything if you have one picture; but people come many times to shoot in order to copy in China and other countries: a figure of the Quijote, made of wood, the make it in resin, they make it in plastic, they make it in metal…but the same one….This one is taken out of the same pattern”.
The presenter: “Hello, good morning.Where you come from?"
The tourists: “From Argentina”
The presenter: “What have you bought?”
The tourists: “Of everything: little cards…, ornaments, bracelets ....That all is mine!”.
The presenter: “Are there 500 notes?”.
Store Cashier: “Yes”.
Another store cashier: “457. Bill, It is true?”.
The presenter: “What is doing a painter just in front of El Prado?”.
The painter: “Where is going to be a painter better than in front of El Prado?”.
The presenter: “Who is fixed in these tables?, Who buy them?, I suppose that tourists who come here…”.
The painter: “Few people, but people who understand, sincerely. I do not sell souvenirs…”
The presenter: “How much you sell them on, what price are usually, more or less?”
The painter: “Very cheap. I use to sell in 80, 90….; but if a day they tell me 60 or 50 and I need for the Bono-transport, I have to give it….; but I have sold paintings in 500,000 pesetas, in one million pesetas…, look..and this was the year 86…he listed among 20,000 and 500,000 pesetas ……and they were sold…..There were people who told me: “You must be there (in the Museum of El prado)” and I say: No, there no, because who are there are pushing up daisies (died)”.
The presenter: “Have a good luck”
The painter: “It has been a pleasure”.
The presenter: “Equally…, see you”.
The presenter: “Besides being one of the most important concentrations of museums in Europe, is the touristic engine of this city. The Prado and Reina Sofia just break records of visitors and the Museum Thyssen has sold over one million tickets all year”.
The presenter: “Susan. You are one of the Restores of the Thyssen Museum”.
Susan: “Yes, I do”.
The presenter: “Here is where the exhibit of Chagal; is not it?”.
Susan: “Yes. Till the Sunday, all the works were hung”. “They are the team of mounting kit of the Museum, who are specializes in artworks. I think that they are used to manage very special works”.
The presenter: “He has to take it inside with much care, in order that it does not jump…?”.
Susan: “Yes. The vibrations, as greatly affect the works, but they always have a lot careful when handling them”.
The presenter: “The gray house, of 1917”.
Susan: “The truth is that enjoying the masters in such a short distance is incredible”.
Susan: “Where we are is where each painting is revised before returning to its home”.
Susan: “They are going to see if the state of preservation is the same than it was given”.
The presenter: “You are revising how is your painting, before taking it to your Museum, I imagine”.
The owner of the painting: “Yes. It was always a very delicate film”.
Susan: “All the works, which come into some boxes weather, are much more protected, such of light as of the environment. They are works, which have some towering insurances, in transport, on travels, on loans”.
The presenter: “Is there nothing new?...Well”.
Another owner of painting: “We are all right and so glad”.
Susan: “We are going to the Photography Studio of the Thyssen Museum”.
The presenter: “Good morning. Well…we caught you just in front of a work….What is it?”.
The restorer: “This is Tintoretto…, “The Paradise”, by Tintoretto. This is a a digital camera by infrared; it is a preliminary study is done on the restoration. What is very interesting for us is to see which are the damaged areas. That is the union of of canvas fabrics. With this technique we can see such the alterations that have been the work by the passage of time, as how to work the artist . This is a part of the radiograph, where we can see crackle in the paint, but, of course, have spent hundreds of years .. Yes, this is what is going to restore ".
The presenter: “We are going into the Thyssen restoration workshop”.
Susan: “It is like a little hospital…”.
The presenter: “From the painting by Tintoretto, which you are restoring,, you have taken out a sample, that is this little black point here”.
A restorer sir: “This is the little point, that we have seen till now. With everything this we can analyze, grain by grain, all materials that are in each of the superimposed layers”.
The presenter: “The first layer, that was given by the painter”
The restorer: “Exactly, the innermost”.
The presenter: “And from here, all the other layers, that are till the surface”
The restorer: “Till the surface”
The presenter: “That is which we see on the painting”
The restorer: “Exactly, that is what we see on the painting”.
The presenter: “For what it is restoration will, everythig this one?”
Susan: "It is imperative, as they say, in order to know how it was made, how it was made by the artist, in order to determine which pigments he used, which he choosed”.”This is a work by Antonio Saura, that has some probles: that the paint here has scales and it is taking of”.
The presenter: “And to work with such important and such expensive works…?”.
Susan: “Yes. But more than one time I have lost sleep”.
The presenter: “Susan: beside here you have also work in the Queen Sofía and in El Prado, that is also the engine of tourism in a city like this one”.
Susan: “The truth is that there is so much tourism, who come from all the world and who enjoy our the collections, same than Spanish people too”.
The presenter: “After the triangle of the Museums, the most visited of Madrid is this one: The Santiago Bernabeu. Only during 2011, it received more than 800,000 visits from 100 differents countries”. “Good morning. Have you just taken tickets?”
A young man: “Two adults and two children”.
The presenter: “How much they cost, by the by?”.
The man: “The adults: 16 Euros, and the children: 11 Euros”.
The presenter: “54 Euros in order to see the Bernabeu…”
The man: “This is the first time we go inside the Bernabeu”
A girl working inside: “Here we make a photomontage, like this one. It is a free trial and at the end of the tour, we show it”.
A father: “But smile a little bit, Sergio”.
The girl: “Look at here..One, two and …three”.
The presenter: “The Trophy Room”
The father: “Yes. Here they are real”.
Sergio: “I want to see the Champions. One, two, three, four, five, six seven, eight, nine!”
Another young man: “They are beautiful…; it is something that I can not describe. I come from Mexico…and it is something very nice”.
The presenter: "The first time that you visit the Bernabeu?".
The Mexican man: “The first time in Spain and my wife told me to visit the Bernabeu; if there is no futbol, you visit the Stadium, the rest of the tour of Spain......I have not much interest".
The presenter: “Have you come to Madrid without your wives?”.
The father: “No. Not to Madrid; to the visit, yes. They have gone to the Castellana, in order to go for a walk. I do not know if they wanted to see some shops”.
The presenter: “They did not want to see the Bernabeu”
The father: “No, no”.”Put you both there”.
The presenter: "This is without any doubt the most photographed cup of the all the tour, that is what the Madrid has jus won, in the league, Is not it?”. “How is see the field on grass flush?”.
Another father: “It is seem biger that from upstairs…”.
The presenter: “It impress more from here”.
Another father: “Yes”.
The presenter: “The Real Madrid was the first Club, that decided to do this one: a visited guide through its stadium and from that other clubs have followed”.
The father: “It is no surprise for me that they follow it….16 Euros the tickets for adult and 11 the tickets for children….”.
The presenter: “Here is where the opposing team changes clothes. Besides you have to line you up for seeing this: for seein the water, a shower, Well, the Jacuzzi is covered “.
The girl who works in the stadium: “If you want any phograph?....With Sergio Ramos…., Cristiano….and with the Champions. The big ones, each one: 17 and the small ones: 12" .
The presenter: “It is what the guided tour”
The father: “The guided tours and to have children”.
The girl: “Here they are. Thank you”
The presenter: “Look…your two sons…with the Champions…, this one is very well”, “36 Euros more in photos, add what you have spent in the tour….; and this in a morning in Madrid”.
The father: “And stay you to eat…”
The presenter: “Enjoy your stay in Madrid”.
The father: “But thank you very much”.
The presenter: “It has been a pleasure”.
This is the link to watch the video:
http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/comando-actualidad/comando-actualidad-esto-hay-verlo/1424553/#aHR0cDovL3d3dy5ydHZlLmVzL2FsYWNhcnRhL2ludGVybm8vY29udGVudHRhYmxlLnNodG1sP3BicT00Jm9yZGVyQ3JpdGVyaWE9REVTQyZtb2RsPVRPQyZsb2NhbGU9ZXMmcGFnZVNpemU9MTUmY3R4PTExMzMyJmFkdlNlYXJjaE9wZW49ZmFsc2U=
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Luis.
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