Casa Museo Azorín de Monovar

Museums

On May 10, 1969, the Azorín House-Museum was founded, in a characteristic nineteenth-century house that rebuilds the home in which José Martínez Ruiz lived, one of the most famous Spanish prose writers. The Casa Museo is owned by the CAM Cultural Foundation and has become a world benchmark for the study of the work and the figure of José Martínez Ruiz. His library houses more than 17,500 books, some with personal notes of the writer, as well as a documentary and hemerographic Azorinian background of 6,000 articles and more than 3,000 letters. Thanks to the successive legacies and donations, an extensive private library of Azorín has been created, with which the Museum House has become a focus of research promotion on the writer of Monóvar and the Generation of '98. Azorín lived until his adolescence between Monóvar and Yecla. His brothers, Amparo and Amancio, collaborated in the restoration of the House in order to keep the spirit of Azorín alive. At the moment it is the only material vestige that remains to us to honor the figure of Azorín in Monóvar. As regards the property, it is a representative construction of traditional houses Valencian, with ground floor, first floor and cambra. The first floor of the house stands out for its monumental stone entrance and its two large openings arranged on both sides of it. On the first floor, and in symmetry with the previous floor, we find three large balconies equipped with rejería. The upper part has a changer with small spans and rejería. The decoration of the façade is reduced to the flat moldings of plaster that run horizontally marking the separation of heights. From the initial house the entrance is conserved and, with different functionality, the father's office, the bedrooms, the family library and the attic.