Virtual tour

03 Feb

Posted at 14:44h en Virtual tour

This is a recreation the room of the family head of the house: the writer's grandfather, Juan de Cervantes, a graduate of Law, who in 1538 left his wife and moved to Cordoba. The writer's father, Rodrigo de Cervantes, who found himself in charge of a large household, would try to make ends meet with his poorly-paid job. The bedrooms, as such, are not described in literary references, but information about...

03 Feb

Posted at 14:28h en Virtual tour

Bath and dressing room are located in Ladies, Duennas and Children's Chambers and offers an accurate picture of hygiene in the Golden Age: perfumes, cosmetics, rubs and ointments were generally used instead of water. The bathing ritual was not at all usual practice in Cervantes' time. However, importance was attached to household linen (underclothing), and changing this was a sign of cleanliness. These and other articles of clothing are laid out...

03 Feb

Posted at 14:00h en Virtual tour

The Ladies, Duennas and Children's Chambers are the rooms in the house given over to the repose and private activities of the ladies (adult women), duennas (old women) and small children. This is an eminently female realm, divided into three apartments: the private area for washing and dressing; women and children's sleeping quarters; and the estrado del cariño or private parlour. This reflects the domestic structure of the period, governed as it was by...

03 Feb

Posted at 13:42h en Virtual tour

This room evokes the writer's childhood, with his siblings' beds or cots. Boys were kept at home until the age of six, when their schooling began. Literacy was extremely restricted, especially among women.The room recreates the part of the house shared by the children and their duennas, and is decorated with religious objects, as shown in both the furniture and the illumination. #gallery-3 { margin: auto; } #gallery-3 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 25%; } #gallery-3...

03 Feb

Posted at 13:27h en Virtual tour

Cervantes Editions Room IThe stock held at the museum is a remarkable collection of Cervantes editions, which is largely comprised of items valued by collectors because of their quality and rarity. Hence, it constitutes the museum's most important collection, given its value and importance.Two rooms situated on the upper floor are used to exhibit this collection, which is organized by language. The first room holds the editions in Spanish and...

03 Feb

Posted at 13:06h en Virtual tour

The upper gallery of the museum's courtyard is supported by wooden pillars and enclosed by a balustrade, also of wood.The gallery leads onto the rooms housing the Cervantes Collection and to the rooms evoking the inhabitants' personal and family life. #gallery-3 { margin: auto; } #gallery-3 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-3 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-3 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Escalera, con barandilla de hierro forjado Niños llegando a la planta...

03 Feb

Posted at 12:37h en Virtual tour

In this room, the museum presents a scenographic display using the characters, scenery and a dramatized recording of one of the most renowned passages from Don Quixote, Master Pedro's Puppet Show (Don Quixote, II, Ch. XXV et seq.), in commemoration of the author's fondness for puppet theatres.The episode staged by Master Pedro in his puppet theatre or play is a chivalric theme derived from the romancero (Spanish ballads): the rescue of Melisendra...

03 Feb

Posted at 12:08h en Virtual tour

This space recreates the noble room, or the room of wealthy households aspiring to nobility, and it maintains the medieval tradition of reserving a special seat for the highest-ranking person. Seating continued to be an indicator of hierarchy. It is furnished with seats with armrests, better known today as friar chairs, because they survived until recent times in ecclesiastical circles. These chairs, introduced into Spain in the 16th century, were placed...

03 Feb

Posted at 11:23h en Virtual tour

The enlargement and restructuring of the museum has enabled the use of additional rooms for educational purposes. On the ground floor, a multi-functional space is readily adaptable for a variety of uses: lectures, book presentations or educational workshops for children and young adults. It has a sliding door that opens onto a small interior courtyard, which has also been restored. #gallery-3 { margin: auto; } #gallery-3 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%; } #gallery-3 img { border:...

03 Feb

Posted at 10:55h en Virtual tour

In the Spanish Golden Age, the kitchen was a place where the family gathered. The one on view here, though small, is disposed as though still in use today: arrangements of fruit and vegetables; the jars of spices so recurrent in Mediterranean and Islamic cooking; sacks of seeds; aromatic herbs such as parsley or mint; nuts and dried fruit; plates, tableware and all the utensils appropriately laid out and ready...

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