Guided Visit

Our journey begins in the Christopher Columbus room. We lodge in our house one of the most rare documents of the 15th century, related to the opening of the American Continent in Europe, when Columbus, without realizing, arrived at the Antilles and wrote several letters, one of them dedicated to the Catholic Monarchs, who had paid part of the expedition to the East Indies.

This letter, or more commonly known as “Ordinance”, was signed and dated in 1493, when the admiral returned to the Iberian Peninsula, eager to inform everyone that what he had intended, that is, getting to the East through the Atlantic Ocean, had been possible Thus, he wrote the document where he recommends to the population the islands that he himself baptized as Antilles. Let’s remember that his obsession to find gold mines is the reason for requesting the Monarchs to facilitate sending the first settlers to the islands. This is a very rare testimony, used to start our collection.