MUSEUM CERRALBO, First Floor
- Audio File length: 2.29
- Author: STEFANO ZUFFI E DAVIDE TORTORELLA
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Language: English / USA
From the Corridor of Drawings which was used by servants as a passage to the nearby dining room, you've now reached the Hall of Columns where you can enjoy observing the small columns made of agate, alabaster, colored marble, and gilded wood with terracotta, marble, and bronze figurines from Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman times: they look like miniature monuments. From here continue to the “Vestuario Salon”, which was the Marquis' dressing room. On the central table you can see different types of swords delicately balanced.
Then you reach the Empire Salon, which was the Marquise's dressing room set up like a hall of mirrors. From here pass through to the rich Dining Room dominated by the central table in mahogany and walnut that could seat up to twenty-four diners. Next is the Billiards Room where the gentlemen challenged each other, apparently even King Fernando VII....