Facade of the Rosalía de Castro House Museum in Padrón

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Rosalía de Castro House Museum in Padrón

Rosalía de Castro · 1837-1885 · Padrón

Visit the Casa da Matanza in Padrón, where Rosalía de Castro lived with her husband and children and where she died in 1885.

Schedule

Tuesday to Sunday · closed on Mondays

Admission

€3 · €2 for groups of more than 20

Address

A Matanza, s/n, 15917 Padrón, A Coruña

Visits

The house

The Casa da Matanza

Rosalía de Castro lived in this house in A Matanza, Padrón, with her husband, the historian Manuel Murguía, and her children, and it was here that she died in 1885. Today it is the house museum dedicated to her memory.

In 1947 the Rosalía de Castro Trust was set up to recover the house, which was restored in 1971. It now belongs to the Rosalía de Castro Foundation, which also promotes Murguía's legacy and looks after the writer's tomb in the church of San Domingos de Bonaval, in Santiago.

Facade of the Rosalía de Castro House Museum in Padrón

The Rosalía de Castro House Museum, in Padrón. Photo: Iago Pillado (CC BY-SA 3.0).

What you'll see on the visit

The ground floor

The reception area and an introduction to Rosalía de Castro's literary importance.

The first floor

It recreates a country house of the period, somewhere between a farmhouse and a minor gentry home, with the kitchen, the dining room, two bedrooms and a library, as well as display cases with different editions of her works and objects that bear witness to her importance.

The garden

In Rosalía's day it was a vegetable garden; today it recreates a garden of the period. Three of its trees are listed in the Galician Catalogue of Singular Trees: Rosalía's fig tree, the Rosalía de Castro camellia and the poets' laurel.

Additional information

https://museos.xunta.gal/es/museos/casa-museo-rosalia-castro

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