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Sponsorship and culture
This programme handles large-scale projects in the cultural dissemination area undertaken by Fundación Caja Madrid on its own account or in partnership with other institutions.
The Foundation’s main publishing project, the monthly literary magazine Revista de Libros, reached its issue number 132 in 2007.
It also sponsored a Royal Armoury exhibition in Beijing's Forbidden City to round off the “Year of Spain", and the publication of the Sorolla Museum catalogue.
On the exhibitions front, Fundación Caja Madrid continued its joint programme with the Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza. The use of the two sites has significantly enlarged Madrid's exhibition capacity, as well as proving a big hit with the visiting public, which flocked to the shows in growing number. Two exhibitions are programmed each year. The Spring 2007 season opened with El espejo y la máscara. El retrato en el siglo de Picasso. This exhibition was a major popular success, with more than 120,000 visitors to the Fundación Caja Madrid gallery out of a total attendance of 288,899 persons. The second exhibition mounted in the Sala de las Alhajas gallery and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum was Durero y Cranach. Arte y Humanismo en la Alemania del Renacimiento, which was seen by a total of 218,000 persons.
The Foundation also organised Reino y ciudad. Valencia en su historia on the occasion of the Americas Cup event, held this year in the city of Valencia.