Antonio Machado House Museum in Segovia

Antonio Machado · 1875-1939 · 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.

Schedule

Monday to Saturday, 10:00 to 14:00 and 16:00 to 19:00 · Sundays, 10:00 to 14:30

Admission

€4 with audio guide · €5 with guided tour · free on Wednesdays that aren't public holidays

Address

Calle de los Desamparados, 5, 40003 Segovia

Visits

Guided tour every day at 10:00 · audio guide also available

The house

The guesthouse on Calle de los Desamparados

Have you read Fields of Castile? Would you like to see the modest guesthouse where Antonio Machado lived for more than a decade? At the Antonio Machado House Museum in Segovia you can: the house is as simple as it was when the poet lived there, and it still has the same furniture.

Machado arrived in Segovia on 25 November 1919 to take up the chair of French at the Instituto General y Técnico in the city. A few days later he moved into Doña Luisa Torrego's guesthouse on Calle de los Desamparados, where he kept a room until 1932.

Together with other artists and writers he founded the Segovia People's University, which, years after the poet's death, acquired the house and set up the museum. It later passed into the hands of the San Quirce Academy of History and Art, which turned it into a permanent memorial to the poet. Today it is listed as a Site of Cultural Interest.

The room Machado occupied in the guesthouse on Calle de los Desamparados. Photo: Nurfermi (CC BY-SA 4.0).

What you'll see on the visit

The poet's room

The room that was his has been kept intact. On its walls hang different versions of his portrait, taken from old photographs or captured in oil paintings, drawings and posters signed by Rafael Peñuelas, Jesús Unturbe, Álvaro Delgado and Pablo Picasso.

Leonor and Guiomar

Among the mementoes in the house are pictures of Leonor, his wife, and of Guiomar, the muse with whom he had a love affair that the guided tour tells you about.

The garden

Among rose bushes and ivy there's a copy of the bust of the poet that Emiliano Barral sculpted in 1920 and a ceramic panel by Julián López Parras.

Additional information

In the footsteps of Machado

Machado was born in Seville, in the Palacio de las Dueñas, which you can also visit today, and before coming to Segovia he lived in Baeza, which you can explore on the Antonio Machado literary free tour.

Plan your visit

You can visit on your own with an audio guide or book the guided tour. On Wednesdays that aren't public holidays, entry is free (without audio guide).

Book a visit

Additional information

You can show your voucher on your phone
The guided tour lasts 45 minutes and is in Spanish
The booking includes entry to the house and a 48-hour ticket for the Jewish Quarter Educational Centre, the Puerta de San Andrés and the Francisco Peralta Puppet Museum
You can cancel free of charge up to 24 hours before
The house isn't wheelchair accessible
No pets allowed

Opening hours and closures