Valle-Inclán House Museum in Vilanova de Arousa

The ground floor

Where the stables, the wine cellar and the tool stores once were, you'll now find the reception, with sculptures by Lucas Míguez, and a room tracing the history of the Valle-Inclán family since the 18th century, with first editions of his works and documents.

The patín, the sun terrace and the garden

The living quarters are reached by an outside staircase, the patín, where people would chat in autumn and sit in the sun in summer. Behind the house is the garden that Valle-Inclán recreated in stories from Jardín umbrío, with old camellias in the shade of a hundred-year-old magnolia.

The drawing room and the study

The rooms for receiving visitors and for special occasions, with traditional Galician furniture, a writing set, a collection of pipes and another of 19th-century clocks, one of the gems of the house.

The bedrooms and the dining room

In the dining room you can watch a clip from a 1920s film, La malcasada, in which Valle-Inclán appears in Julio Romero de Torres's studio, and listen to a recording of his own voice.

The kitchen

It's the most authentic part of the house: being almost entirely of stone, it survived the fire, with its open hearth (lareira), its dressed-stone chimney and a stone sink under the window.