Madrid · Moncloa · Spain

Ermita de San Antonio de la Florida

hidden gem

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easy

9/10

best: morning

contemplative, intimate, historic

A local would say...

Goya painted this ceiling in just four months in 1798 — and then they buried him beneath it.

One of Madrid's most surprising secrets, this small chapel contains Goya's only surviving ceiling fresco painted in its original setting, commissioned by Carlos IV in 1798. The southern chapel is also known as the Panteón de Goya, where the painter himself is buried. The frescoes depicting the miracle of St Anthony are breathtaking — a typical Madrid crowd rendered in unmistakably Goya style.