Night of museums: the Prado and the Thyssen, two oases in the Madrid of noise. Both art galleries open on Saturdays at night and receive visitors who enter quietly, full of curiosity, and who find joy and some disappointment.

At 8:27 pm on Saturday, the surroundings of the Atocha metro station and Paseo del Prado are packed with people. The public is varied, educated, there are plenty of cloth bags with cultural phrases printed on them, cool bookstores that one frequents.