Welcome to Casa da Matanza, the last home where Rosalia de Castro lived, the most universal Galician writer and leading figure of the Galician Renaissance. Rosalía lived here with her family during the last years of her life, between 1882 and 1885. Here she saw her last book published, En las orillas del Sar, and here she died on July 15 when she was 48 years old. Since then, this place has become a symbol for all of Galicia.
Room 1: A house for Her
She never had her own house
Whoever owns a house is set for life!
Room 2: Who was Rosalía
Who was Rosalía
A female Galician intellectual
Room 3: The one hundred leaves rose: her writing
Cantares gallegos (Galician songs)
Alborada (dawn chorus)
Follas Novas (New leaves)
Negra sombra (Black shadow)
Rosalía’s prose
Un unceasing writing
Room 4: A cultural factory
A cultural factory
Murguía, intellectual leader of his generation
Without literature there is no culture
“A different language reveals a different nationality”
The five children of Manuel and Rosalía
Ovidio Murguía and the Galician landscape
Room 5: A legendary woman: the room of her passing
Alegory of Galicia. Woman, legend, symbol
Open that window, I want to see the sea
Room 6: “At my living room”. The female condition
The living room furniture
The painting ‘Tree of the Mountain’
Room 7: Parents of the country: politics and culture
The country we are
The discourse of Galician identity
Flag woman
The Baltar family and Galician culture
