Segovia Museums
Casa-museo Antonio Machado
The house where the poet lived between 1919 and 1931. Its entire
ambience has been retained.
Address: DESAMPARADOS, 5
Province: Segovia
Town: SEGOVIA
Collection of the painter Zuloaga
The tower of the castle was a subject for the painter Zuloaga.
VISITING AREA:
Enclosure, gardens, courtyards and one of the towers which has
two museum rooms.
Colección Zuloaga.
Address: CASTILLO
Province: Segovia
Town: PEDRAZA
La Fragua- Museo
Old forge which has been completely readapted. An oven, a shoeing
frame, bellows, agricultural tools from the surrounding area (ploughs,
harrows...) The forge is no longer used. At Christmas a crib is
set up in the forge.
Address: MEDIODIA, JUNTO AL FRONTON
Town: CASTILLEJO DE MESLEON
Museo Catedralicio de Segovia
Collection of gold and silverware from the fifteenth to eighteenth
century. Carroza triunfal (triumphal carriage), and silver monstrance
by Rafael González. Ornaments and illuminated codexes.
Its 18 chapels contain works which include:
The "Cristo Yacente" de Gregorio Fernández
Altarpiece by Pedro de Balduque
Altarpiece de Juan de Juni
Tapestries from the Escuela de Rubens.
Five hundred incunabula are preserved in the archive, along with
the "Sinodal de Aguilafuente", the first non-literary
book printed in Spain.
Address: MARQUES DEL ARCO, 1
Province: Segovia
Town: SEGOVIA
Museo de los Angeles (Angel´s Museum)
Around 80 pictures and some sculptures by contemporary artists,
on the theme of "los Ángeles" (the angels). All
pieces measure 3 metres by 2 metres
Address: CALERA, 1
Town: TUREGANO
Museo del Vidrio de San Ildefonso O la Granja
/ Fabrica de Cristales
Permanent and temporary exhibitions dedicated to glass and its
technology.
More than 14000 square metres of exhibition space in the Real
Fábrica de Cristales de La Granja, with permanent and temporary
exhibitions dedicated to glass and its technology.
Machines, tools, moulds and historical and contemporary pieces
comprise the collection which is on permanent display in the restored
industrial architectural venue of the Real Fábrica de Cristales.
The evolution of glass and ways of working with glass through
the centuries can be traced in the exhibition's different sections.
SECTIONS: Vidrio de La Granja (glass in the farmhouse)(eighteenth
and nineteenth century); Vidrio Europeo (European glass)(sixteenth
to nineteenth century); Vidrio artístico contemporáneo
(Contemporary, artistic glass); Vidrio científico (scientific
glass); Exposición tecnológica; (technological exhibition)
Exposición permanente (permanent exhibition); Ovens, workshops,
Audiovisual presentations.
Address: REAL FABRICA DE CRISTALES DE LA GRANJA. Pº DEL POCILLO,
1
Province: Segovia
Town: SAN ILDEFONSO O LA GRANJA
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