Windmill Museum
The Gregorio Prieto Windmill and City of Valdepeñas Museum , located near Valdepeñas, houses models and paintings dedicated to mills from around the world, as well as a collection of paintings by important artists in the local area.
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Contact address for Windmill Museum
Francisco Mejía s/n, 13300
Valdepeñas (Ciudad Real)
Phone: 926 31 16 60 / 926 31 25 52
Fax: 926 31 13 01
Email: cultura@valdepenas.es
Website: www.valdepenas.es/VLDS...
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- Road transport
The museum building was built according to the typical 16th and 17th centuries architectural patterns of La Mancha, with grilles, columns, wooden beams and old-fashioned construction materials.
Inside you can find models and paintings of mills from around the world, as well as Eduardo Mateos Cahaparro’s National Pottery Collection and the City Museum that combines the legacies of Eusebio Vasco and Antonio Delgado Merlo.
The ground floor contains the works of Gregorio Prieto dedicated to the mills, not only of La Mancha, but that he encountered on his travels all over Europe.
The first floor houses a collection of works by 19th century painters from Valdepeñas, such as Hurtado de Mendoza, Delicado de Mena,... and in the display cases we can see the historic legacy of Eusebio Vasco and Antonio Merlo Delgado, were many different kinds of documentation take us on a tour of the history of Valdepeñas.
- Governing body
- Valdepeñas Town Council.
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Talavera de la Reina Tourist Information Office
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