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| | Prado |
 | | Prado, national Spanish museum of painting and sculpture, Madrid, one of the finest in Europe. |
 | | Situated on the Paseo del Prado, it was begun by Juan de Villanueva in 1785 for Charles III, as a museum of natural history, and finished under Ferdinand VII; the inaugural ceremony took place in 1819, when the collection consisted entirely of Spanish paintings. |
 | | Mariano Ignacio Prado - Prado, Mariano Ignacio, 1826–1901, president of Peru (1865–67, 1878–79). |
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