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El Castell de Guadalest

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MUSEUMS
El Castell de Guadalest has nine different museums or museographic collections which are:
Antonio Marco Museum. Christmas Cribs and dolls houses	Ribera Girona Museum
Miniatures Museum	Micro-Gigantic Museum
Ethnological Museum. XVIII century typical house	Historical and middle age Museum. Torture instruments Museum
Town Museum. Orduña House	Historical Automobile Museum "Vall de Guadalest"
The Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum
Antonio Marco Museum. Christmas cribs and dolls houses Address: Calle Virgen, 2 Telephone number: 965 885 323 Postal code: 03517 Summer timetable: from 10 to 21:00 h. Winter timetable: from 10 to 18:00 h. Monday to Sunday. Price: Adults: 3,00 €, Children: 2,00 € Adult group: 2,50 €, Children group: 1,75 € Description: It is a museum of scale model houses and churches built with natural elements. The most interesting scale model is the one of a giant "Ciudad-Belen" from the beginning of this century.

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Miniatures Museum Address: Calle Iglesia, 5 Telephone number: 965 885 062 Postal code: 03517 Summer timetable: from 10 to 21:00 h. Winter timetable: from 10 to 18:00 h. Monday to Sunday. Price: Adults: 4,00 €, Children: 3,00 € Adult group: 3,00 €, Children group: 2,00 € Description: In this museum you can take a look at all kinds of miniatures with magnifying glasses. Among the different miniatures the ones that stand out are: • The statue of Liberty inside a needle • On the wing of a fly the painting of Goya "La Maja Desnuda" • Modelling an elephant with the eye of a mosquito • Picasso’s Guernica painted on a seed • A camel walking through the eye of a needle • Goya’s painting of executions on a grain of rice. Up
Micro-Gigantic Museum Address: Calle del Sol, 2 Postal Code: 03517 Summer timetable: from 10 to 21:00 h. Winter timetable: from 10 to 18:00 h. Monday to Sunday. Price: Adults: 4,00 €, Children: 3,00 € Adult group: 3,00 €, Children group: 2,00 € Description: In this museum you can find two collections: miniatures you can look at through magnifying glasses and giant sculptures. Among the miniatures, the most important are: • A bull ring on a pinhead • A bible written on a hair • A flea riding a bike on a seed • The church and the tower of Guadalest on one quarter of a centimetre • An ant playing the violin • A miniature of the Kremlin • A village built on a bone of two centimeters. Up
Ethnological Museum. XVIII century typical house Address: Calle Iglesia, 1 Telephone number: 661 152 774 Postal Code: 03517 Summer timetable: from 10 to 19 h. Winter timetable: from 10 to 18 h. Monday to Sunday. Saturdays closed. Free entrance. Donations. Students group: 1,50 € /person. Need a date. Groups of handicapped people: Free Entrance. Need a date. Description: This museum is divided in two parts: • Home life. • Agricultural production. Home life It is a real reproduction of a house of the XVIII century, with a bread oven, with a pantry, a yard with animals and different tools for agricultural work, a bedroom with furniture and clothes of the period. Agricultural production In this part of the museum we can see how oil was made inside an oilmill, you can also see all the machinery and tools for the preparation of the vine. Last but not least inside this museum you can see a scale reproduction of a working cereal mill and the tools needed for its cultivation. Up
Historical and middle age Museum. Instruments of torture Address: Calle Honda, 2 Telephone number: 610 051 001 Postal code: 03517 Summer timetable: from 11:00 to 21 h. Winter timetable: from 11:00 to 18 h. Monday to Sunday. Price: Adults: 4,00 €, Children: 2,00 € Adult group: 2,00 €, Children group: 1,00 € Description: This museum exhibits instruments of torture and execution. Up
Town Museum. Orduña House Address: Calle Iglesia, 2 Telephone number: 965 885 393 Postal Code: 03517 Summer timetable: from 10:15 to 20 h. Winter timetable: from 10:15 to 18 h. Monday to Sunday. Price: Adults: 4,00 €, Children: 2,00 € Adult group: 2,50 € Description: See more information in cultural heritage. Up
Ribera Girona Museum Address: Calle Peña, 1 Telephone number: 965 885 062 Postal Code: 03517 Summer timetable: from 10 to 20 h. Winter timetable: from 10 to 18 h. Price: Adults: 4,00 €, Children: 3,00 € Adult group: 3,00 €, Children group: 2,00 € Description: Contemporary art museum opened in 1974, a pioneer in the province of Alicante. The building combines art, architecture and landscape in an environment which is defined by the nature of the building. Inside the rooms you can see the work of different XX century artists. This museum follows the work of Ribera Girona. Up
Historical Automobile Museum "Vall de Guadalest" Address: Ctra. Callosa–Guadalest, Km 7 (near the restaurant El Riu) Telephone number: 965 882 197, 617 017 799 Postal Code: 03517 Summer timetable: from 10:30 to 19 h. Winter timetable: from 10:30 to 18 h. Monday to Sunday. Saturdays closed. Price: Adults: 3,00 €, Children: 1,00 € Adult and children group: phone first http://www.museovehiculosguadalest.com E-mail: museo@museovehiculosguadalest.com Description: A collection of one hundred motorcycles and some small cars in perfect condition and totally original. These vehicles are from the 1920’s to the 1970’s. Up
The Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum Address: Avda. de Alicante, 2 http://www.museodesalerosypimenteros.es Description: The new attraction in El Castell de Guadalest is the fascinating Museum of Salt and Pepper Shakers. The collection consists of more than 20.000 salt and pepper shakers from all over the world. Up
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