House museums
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
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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Stratford-upon-Avon
Explore the timber-framed house in Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare was born and where he lived until the early years of his marriage.
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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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Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Visit the house on Calle Cano where Benito Pérez Galdós was born and spent his childhood, with its Canarian courtyards, his library and the portrait Sorolla painted of him.
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Padrón
Visit the Casa da Matanza in Padrón, where Rosalía de Castro lived with her husband and children and where she died in 1885.
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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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Moguer
Visit the house in Moguer where Juan Ramón Jiménez spent his childhood and youth, now a museum dedicated to him and to the writer and translator Zenobia Camprubí.
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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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Fuente Vaqueros, Granada
Visit the farmhouse in Fuente Vaqueros where Federico García Lorca was born, with its courtyard, its well and the memories of his friendship with Anna María Dalí.
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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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Seville
Visit the palace in Seville where Antonio Machado was born and which he remembered in his verses, now a residence of the House of Alba.
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