House museums

Step into the lives of writers

Visit the houses where a number of authors were born, lived or wrote, and discover their rooms, libraries, personal belongings and workspaces.

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4 house museums

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Dublin

Explore the Dublin house where Oscar Wilde grew up: his father's library and consulting room, his mother's drawing room and his nursery.

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Segovia

Would you like to see the room where Antonio Machado lived during his years in Segovia? Visit the poet's house museum, a former guesthouse that still has its original furniture.

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Granada, Valderrubio

Step into the real house in Valderrubio that inspired The House of Bernarda Alba and meet the flesh-and-blood family Lorca brought to the stage.

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Granada, Valderrubio

Visit the Lorca family's country house in Valderrubio, where Federico went to school, spent his summers and discovered theatre through a travelling puppet show.

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Lanzarote

Would you like to step inside “a house made of books”? Visit the Lanzarote home where José Saramago spent his last 18 years and wrote his last novels.

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Haworth

Explore Haworth Parsonage, where Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë wrote Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

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Madrid

Visit the house in the Barrio de las Letras where Lope de Vega spent his last 25 years, with his study, his bedroom and the garden he loved so much.

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Orihuela

Visit the house in Orihuela where Miguel Hernández lived with his family, with its courtyard, the goat shed and the fig-tree orchard at the foot of the sierra.

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A Coruña

Discover the house on Calle Tabernas where Emilia Pardo Bazán spent her childhood, wrote many of her novels and held her famous literary gatherings.

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Salamanca

Visit the rector's house at the University of Salamanca, where Miguel de Unamuno lived with his family and wrote works such as Mist.

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Vilanova de Arousa

Visit the Pazo del Cuadrante, the home of Valle-Inclán's maternal grandparents in Vilanova de Arousa, where, according to tradition, the author of Bohemian Lights was born.

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Valladolid

Visit the house in Valladolid where Cervantes was living when the first part of Don Quixote went on sale, with its rooms recreated as they were in his day.

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Alcalá de Henares

Fancy sitting down next to Don Quixote and Sancho Panza? Visit Cervantes's birthplace in Alcalá de Henares, with its colonnaded courtyard and its 16th-century rooms.

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El Toboso

Visit the 16th-century house in El Toboso where, according to tradition, the woman who inspired Cervantes's character Dulcinea once lived.

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