Costa Blanca Winter Sunshine Holidays

Costa Blanca Spain, Spain

Nov 132010

Driving down the coast from Gandia, destination Guadalest.

MUSEUMS

El Castell de Guadalest has nine museums and museum collections which are listed below:

Museo Ribera Girona

Microminiatures Museum

Microgiant Museum

Ethnological Museum.
Typical house of the XVIII Century

Medieval History Museum.
Torture Instruments Museum

Municipal Museum.
Casa Orduña

Museum-Collection of Historic Vehicles “Vall de Guadalest”

Salt and Pepper Museum

Address: Calle Virgen, 2
Phone: 965 885 323
Postal Code: 03517

Summer Hours: 10 to 21:00 h.
Winter hours: 10 to 18:00 h.
From Monday to Sunday.

Price: Adults: € 3.00, Children: 2.00 €
Adult groups: 2.50 €, Children’s Groups: 1.75 €

Description: This is a museum of models of houses and churches built with natural elements. City-Bethlehem highlights a giant set at the beginning of this century.

Address: Church Street, 5
Phone: 965 885 062
Postal Code: 03517

Summer Hours: 10 to 21:00 h.
Winter hours: 10 to 18:00 h.
From Monday to Sunday.

Price: Adults: € 4.00, Children: 3.00 €
Adult groups: 3.00 €, Children’s Groups: 2.00 €

Description: In this museum you can see a collection of miniatures with very powerful magnifiers.
Among the various miniatures include:

• The Statue of Liberty inside the eye of a needle
• The Nude Maja de Goya painted on the wing of a fly
• An elephant modeled in the eyes of a mosquito
• Picasso painted Guernica in a seed
• A camel walking through the eye of a needle
• The shooting of Goya painted on a grain of rice.

Address: Calle del Sol, 2
Postal Code: 03517

Summer Hours: 10 to 21:00 h.
Winter hours: 10 to 18:00 h.
From Monday to Sunday.

Price: Adults: € 4.00, Children: 3.00 €
Adult groups: 3.00 €, Children’s Groups: 2.00 €

Description: In this museum you can see two collections of works of art miniatures are through powerful lenses and giant sculptures.
Among the miniatures, the most important are:

• A bullring built in the head of a pin
• The Bible made in the section of hair
• A flea biking along the edge of a seed
• The site and Guadalest bell made in a quarter-inch
• An ant playing the violin
• The miniature kremlin
• A village built on a bone than two centimeters.

Address: Church Street, 1
Phone: 661 152 774
Postal Code: 03517

Daylight saving: 10 to 19 h.
Winter hours: 10 to 18 h.
From Monday to Sunday. Saturday closed.

Free admission. Will be paid.
Groups of students: 1.50 € / person. Appointment.
Groups of people with learning disabilities: Free. Appointment.

Description: The museum is divided into two parts:

• The daily and domestic life.
• Agricultural production.

Daily and domestic life

You can see, the pantry, a real reproduction of the household, an oven for baking bread, barnyard animals, various tools for farming and bedroom furniture and clothing of the era.

Agricultural production

It shows the process of developing the oil through a mill with machinery, tools and instruments. Also, see the reproduction of a press and tools for growing grapes. And finally, the reproduction scale model of a corn mill in operation, tools for cultivation and threshing.

Address: Calle Honda, 2
Phone: 610 051 001
Postal Code: 03517

Summer Hours: 11:00 to 21 h.
Winter hours: 11:00 to 18 h.
From Monday to Sunday.

Price: Adults: € 4.00, Children: 2.00 €
Adult groups: 2.00 €, Children’s Groups: 1.00 €

Description: This museum displays tools of torture and capital punishment.

Address: Church Street, 2
Phone: 965 885 393
Postal Code: 03517

Daylight Saving Time: from 10:15 to 20 h.
Winter hours: from 10:15 to 18 h.
From Monday to Sunday.

Price: Adults: € 4.00, Children: 2.00 €
Adult Group: € 2.50

Description: See more information on Cultural Heritage.

Address: Calle Peña, 1
Phone: 965 885 062
Postal Code: 03517

Daylight saving: 10 to 20 h.
Winter hours: 10 to 18 h.

Price: Adults: € 4.00, Children: 3.00 €
Adult Group: € 3.00, Group children: 2.00 €

Description: Museum of Contemporary Art opened in 1974, a pioneer in the province of Alicante. Building defined by the nature, integrating a global project that combines art, architecture and landscape.
In his room houses works by various artists of the twentieth century.
Runs along the path of its founder, the artist Ribera Girona, from its inception to the present day child, providing a clear demonstration of the evolution of Spanish society.

Address: Ctra Callosa-Guadalest, Km 7 (next to Restaurante El Riu)
Phone: 965 882 197, 617 017 799
Postal Code: 03517

Summer Hours: 10:30 to 19 h.
Winter hours: 10:30 to 18 h.
Closed Saturdays.

Price: Adults: € 3.00, Children: 1.00 €
Adult Group: check by phone
Group Children: consult your

http://www.museovehiculosguadalest.com
E-mail: museo@museovehiculosguadalest.com

Description: This is a collection consisting of a hundred motorcycles and several small cars, in excellent condition and completely original.
The age of vehicles includes the period from the 20 to 70.

Salt and Pepper Museum

Address: Avenida de Alicante, 2

http://www.museodesalerosypimenteros.es

Description: The new attraction in El Castell de Guadalest is the Museum of Salt and Pepper.
The collection consists of over 20,000 salt and pepper shakers from around the world.