Cases de Rafael Ballester (Ontinyent)
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C./ Cantalar de Sant Vicent, 13 Tel: 626 233 271 Timetable: arrange visit in advance. |
The house number thirty-six of the street Cantalar de Sant Vicent is a house with collection pieces, different books and handicrafts. It is a private house, whose owner is an enthusiast who has opened to the public the fruit of a meticulous work and relevant discoveries made during many years. There is a collection of different objects on the ground floor and in two rooms on the first floor. There is also an ethnographic collection, where you can find from evening dresses and underclothes from the 18th century to a wide range of tools. Especially noteworthy is a bedroom from the 18th century with all the accessories. The second floor houses a singular exhibition: a hundred metal figures of Don Quixote. All the episodes of the Cervantine work are represented in different scenes full of trees, animals and characters made of screws, washers and hinges. There is also a collection of seventy-five miniature carts, made of iron, from all times and parts of the world, and a collection of fossils and minerals from the region.
