Extremadura Guide Eng 2016

Vostell Museum. Malpartida de Cáceres

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several regions proud of the avantguard works of the engi- neers, sculptors or architects who have inspired by Extremadura or part of Extremadura in the carrying out of a decorative, functional or practical work. Nonetheless, there are lots of architects and engineers, together with painters or sculptors, who have lived under the inspiration by Extremadura, still coming from other latitudes of the world, such as Vostell , whose Museum located in Malpartida de Cáceres causes an unquestion- able, international admiration. In Museums such as the Extremaduran and Latin- American Museum of Contemporary Art (MEIAC) and those of Fine Arts and Casa de los Caballos in Cáceres, the visitant can have a magnificent, wide view of the Extremaduran and avant – garde art of the last few cen- turies, with artist of international fame whose works of

arts are on display in their rooms and stand together with other foreign works of great prestige. They are worth mentioning the original, attractive Ethnographic Museums standing in numerous Extremaduran nucleus, with obvious examples of a legacy admired more and more, either among the Extremaduran visitants or among those coming from other Spanish regions and who really appreciate the cultural, anthropo- logical value of these works, some of them with thousands of didactic pieces on display in rooms that were former castles, feudal houses, farming houses or avantgarde buildings in ancient times created for that. Those situated in the localities of Olivenza , Don Beni- to , Plasencia and Huerta de Ánimas , in addition to the ones in Trujillo, stand out among all of them.

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