MUSEUM CERRALBO, Introduction
- Audio File length: 2.04
- Author: STEFANO ZUFFI E DAVIDE TORTORELLA
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Language: English / USA
Hi, I'm Debbie, your personal guide. Together with MyWoWo, I'd like to welcome you to one of the wonders of the world.
Today I'll take you on a tour of the Museum Cerralbo, which is one of the most special collections of art in Madrid!
The beautiful stone and brick facade before you was originally the family home of Don Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa, the seventeenth Marquis of Cerralbo, who also used the home to display the works of art that had been collected in his numerous trips through Europe. Today this beautiful, classical style building has become the home of the Museum Cerralbo.
Besides being an aristocratic politician, he was in fact both an archaeologist and a passionate collector. He decided that at his death nearly 100 years ago, he would donate not only his palace to the state, but also the countless treasures it contained, as long as the building was turned into a museum....