Casa Museo Miguel de Unamuno
The Casa Museo Miguel de Unamuno occupies the house that took in the writer when he reached Fuerteventura in 1924, banished by the Rivera dictatorship. It stands in the centre of the old Puerto Cabras, today Puerto del Rosario, and keeps the feel of a bourgeois home of the last century, with fine wood, heavy drapes and period devices such as a typewriter and a phonograph.
The house took in Miguel de Unamuno when he reached Fuerteventura in 1924, banished by the Rivera dictatorship. It stands in the heart of the old Puerto Cabras, today Puerto del Rosario, and matches the pattern of a bourgeois home of the last century: fine wood, heavy drapes and period devices such as a typewriter and a phonograph. The visit brings the writer and his bond with the island close from the inside.
The museum belongs to the network of centres run by the Cabildo de Fuerteventura and programmes more than the open visit: school visits, visits for associations and groups, and an escape room built around Unamuno. It also holds guided visits by prior registration, led by a restorer, which move through the rooms of the house and explain both its heritage value and the reality of the exile. Admission is booked online.
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