Museum sights in Cádiz
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Museo de Cádiz
Cádiz’s excellent major museum faces one of the city’s largest and leafiest squares. The stars of the ground-floor archaeology section are two Phoenician marble sarcophagi, carved in human likeness, and a monumental statue of the Roman emperor Trajan, from Baelo Claudia. The fine-arts collection upstairs has 21 superb canvases by Francisco de Zurbarán, and the painting that cost Murillo his life – the altarpiece from Cádiz’s Convento de Capuchinas. The baroque maestro died from injuries received in a fall from scaffolding while working on this in 1682.
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Museo de las Cortes de Cádiz
Museo de las Cortes de Cádiz is full of historical memorabilia focusing on the 1812 parliament, including a marvellous large 1770s model of Cádiz, made for King Carlos III. The museum was being renovated at the time of research.
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Museo Catedralicio
The cathedral ticket admits you to the nearby Museo Catedralicio, with an excavated medieval street and material on the Anglo-Dutch sacking of 1596 alongside cathedral treasures and assorted art.
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Castillo de Santa Catalina
The Castillo de Santa Catalina was built after the 1596 sacking; inside are an interesting historical exhibit on Cádiz and the sea, and a gallery for exhibitions.
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