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La Rioja Museum
Apart from the numerous monuments that
can be found in La Rioja Province, pilgrims who are fond of
Art can admire the precious gems showed in La Rioja Museum,
located in Logroño. The gallery is housed in a Baroque Palace
from the 18th century, representative of Logroño´s civil architecture.
The building was the retreat of General Espartero in the 19th
century.
In 1884 it was acquired by the Government to make it the Episcopal
Palace, but was never used for that purpose. Later on, the
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Würth Museum (Logroño)
The Museo Würth
La Rioja was founded to exhibit international
avant-garde art from the 20th and 20st centuries
based on the Collection Würth which comprises
approximately 11.000 works of art and is considered
to be one of the most important private collections
in Europe.
The museum situated in Agoncillo near
Logroño within the Ebro-route of the “Pilgrims’ Way
of St. James” offers since its inauguration on
September 7, 2007, an extraordinary alternative to
the classic cultural and natural experiences of the
pilgrims travelling through the Wine region La
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The Navarra Museum
The Navarra Museum, founded in 1965 in
housed in the ancient Hospital of Nuestra Señora de
la Misericordia, located in old Pamplona. From the original
construction only remain the facade and the church, both from
the 16th century.
The gallery shows the rich Navarrese Heritage, from Prehistoric
times to the present. The collections it contains were begun
by the Comisión de Monumentos Históricos y Artísticos
de Navarra (Commission of Historic and Artistic Monuments
of Navarra), established in 1860. The task was later continued
by the Príncipe de Viana Institution, established in 1940
by the Navarrese Government "with the purpose of protecting,
restoring and investigating the Archaelogical and Artistic
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The Burgos Museum
The Burgos Museum -the former Province
Archeological Museum- is housed in the Casa Miranda Palace,
a Renaissance mansion built by Juan de Vallejo, ordered
by Francisco de Miranda, abbot of Salas and canon of Burgos
in 1545.
The museum is divided in two sections, housed in separate
buildings. The Archeological Department contains finds discovered
in the province: Paleolithic objects from Atapuerca -there
is a temporary exhibition on the excavations, titled "Atapuerca.
One Million Years"- and Ojo Guareña, from the
Iron Age necropolis of Miraveche, Ubierna and Villanueva
de Teba as well as Roman finds from Clunia.
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Museum of Santiago Cathedral
The Museum of Santiago Cathedral is
located in the west side of the cloisters of Santiago Cathedral.
Access to the museum is via the Plaza de Obradoiro. The
collection consists of important archeological finds, sculptures,
paintings, gold and silversmiths, tapestries, carpets, liturgical
clothes, ceramics and furniture.
There is also a library that includes a documentary collection
of incalculable value, including the Codex Calixtinus or
the Liber Sancti Jacobi, Los Tumbos, The History of Compostela
and an infinity of unique documents about the history of
Galice and, especially, the church of Compostela.
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Diocesan Museum (Pamplona)
Founded in 1960 -and restored in 1995-,
the Diocesan Museum occupies some rooms adjoining the Cathedral,
such as the refectory, the kitchen and the cellarer´s chamber
of the old community of canons. It displays religious objects
from extinct parish churches or churches that do not offer
the conditions for their conservation.
The refectory shows carvings of the Virgin, executed in
the Romanesque and Gothic styles, from the 12-15 C. There
are also several paintings on board and statues of Medieval
saints from the 15 and 16 C. The collection of carvings
include Renaissance works from the 16 and 17 C, along with
Baroque works from the 17 and 18 C.
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Bierzo Museum, Ponferrada
Ponferrada, apart from its
monuments, offers some museums, such as the recently founded
Bierzo Museum. It is located in a building that served as
a jailhouse in the past.
The patio, a place for the relaxation of visitors, is an
example of the traditional architecture in the Bierzo area.
It contains an old tank. The ground floor shows Prehistoric
items, from the Low Paleolithic to the end of the Roman
Empire. The tools are among the most interesting: metallic,
ceramic...One of the rooms is solely devoted to an unkown
culture, which was very important in this Community, the
Iberian-Roman culture. In León there are more than 120 Fortified
Iberian-Roman Areas.
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The Museo de los Caminos (Astorga,
León)
The Episcopal Palace or Gaudi Palace
houses since 1963 the Museo de los Caminos (Museum of the
Ways). It contains pieces that have been neglected by the
churches of the diocese and those that need an appropiate
place for their preservation. Most of them reflect the theme
of pilgrimage.
The contents of the museum symbolize the artistic and cultural
heritage of the most important old dioceses in Spain. In
the different rooms of the gallery such as the dining room,
the throne room, the chapel or the large hall are pieces
of great artistic value, such as the many Romanesque carvings
from all over the diocese.
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Pilgrimage Museum (Santiago de Compostela)
The Pilgrimage Museum was established
in 1951 by the General Direction of Fine Arts, with a view
to showing the great influence the pilgrimage and the cult
to Santiago had on European and Latin american civilizations.
It covers the history of the Route to Santiago by means
of documents, paintings, sculptures, smithery and religious
art.
It is housed in the Gothic House,
which is considered to have been the house of King Pedro
I, although it is also related to Fernando de Castro, verger
of the Church of Santiago and the representative of this
king in Galicia.
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