CULTURE

The province of Castellón offers the visitor a wide range of different thematic museums widespread throughout the regions, coast and inland. As it is very difficult to make a route on all of them, may we recommend some of them, because of its worth, as well as for the meaning of the work that they keep.

In Castellón we can find the Museu de Belles Arts which offers, in a modern and wide building, an analysis of the material evolution of the provincial archaeology, from the Palaeolithic till the latter part of the Middle Ages. The magnificent pottery, canvas and carving collection of the "Cartuja de Vall de Crist"are also important, as well as an interesting collection of paintings of the 17th century.
This new Provincial Museum is framed inside the project "Castelló Cultural" of the one that is also part the "Espai d'Art Contemporani" that dedicates its facilities to exhibitions of the most current contemporary art.

The Museo Etnológico is located at the Hermitage of San Jaime de Fadrell and it gathers items used in different activities and jobs that formed the lifestyle and economy of the city in this area.

Besides offering a striking Archiprestal Church, Morella, also keeps a great amount of high quality pieces in its museum: renaissance relieves, gothic sculptures, gold and silver work and anonymous slabs of the 16th century.

The "Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Onda" offers a varied content: botany, zoology, anthropology, numismatic, palaeontology, ancient weapons, etc.

The Museo Municipal de Cerámica y Azulejo in this city stands out the exhibition of more than trhee thousand pieces of the ornamental tiling from Onda.

The Museo Catedralicio de Segorbe stores the best collection of gothic valencian paintings, with pieces of Jacomart, Osona, Nicolás Camañrón and Pere Nicolau, amongst others.

The "Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vilafamés", founded in 1960 and set in the "Casa del Batlle", a large house 15th century is very singular. In it you can watch works of the most successful contemporary Spanish painters. Chillida, Miró, Cuixart, Cananogar, etc.

On the ground floor of the Town Hall of Jérica you can find the "Museo Municipal" that stands out mainly for its exhibition of stone tables of the Roman era.

Local ethnology and archaeology are shown
in the "Museo Arqueológico Comarcal de la Plana Baixa", located in "La Merced" convent. It has an excellent collection of archeologic pieces from the Neolithic up to the Iberian era.

Also in Burriana the "Museo de la Naranja" has recently been opened.

It would be very interesting to visit the Museo de Traiguera which offers Roman pottery, carvings of ancient reredoses and an important collection of gold and silver works, as well as several gothic chalices, shrines and a striking monstrance, made by Juan Olcina in 1415.

In Peñiscola you can visit the "Museo del Mar".

The cave paintings of La Valltorta are one of the most interesting groups of the levantine quaternary art, declared World Heritage for the UNESCO, and you can find paintings, touching ups and additions of a period from 8000 to 2000 B.C., that is to say, from Mesolithic to Eneolithic. The "Museo de la Valltorta", located next to the cave paintings, it is the center from where the visits begin to the same ones.

The Casa de Polo, in Vila-real has also a special attraction because the "Museo Municipal" is set there, with several legacies of outstanding artists from Vila-real, especially the room dedicated to the distinguished guitarist Francisco Tárrega.

In Nules in 1995 the "Museo de Medallística Enrique Giner" was opened, with an important collection of commemorative medals of many types and sculptures. In Nules you can also find an interesting ethnologic museum.