Museo de Historia de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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Andreas Ehrencrona (4 years ago)
Wonderful exhibition giving real insights. Texts are for once high quality, critical and without too much jargon or unnecessary detail. It's just weird that it ends before the Franco period.

Lucía Román Canivell (4 years ago)
An underrated museum. It is well organized and offers a clear view of Madrid's history from an obviously enriching point of view. It is a bit too classical, but they also have more modern temporary exhibitions such as a pandemic photography exhibition that was really beautiful. Also, it is free!

Othilia Zen Tao (4 years ago)
I loved it! Still... I have to go back. 3 hours wasn't enough! ?

craig wilder (5 years ago)
Learned a lot about where American history comes from by visiting Spanish museums. Parked one block away and learned a lot of interesting information about Madrid. For example, Madrid was founded due to its ground water, flour mills, and its central location within the peninsula.

Johan Kloster (5 years ago)
it was ok. nice building and decent paintings.... extremely far from what it should be for a historically important city like madrid though

Château de Foix

The Château de Foix dominates the town of Foix. An important tourist site, it is known as a centre of the Cathars. Built on an older 7th-century fortification, the castle is known from 987. In 1002, it was mentioned in the will of Roger I, Count of Carcassonne, who bequeathed the fortress to his youngest child, Bernard. In effect, the family ruling over the region were installed here which allowed them to control access to the upper Ariège valley and to keep surveillance from this strategic point over the lower land, protected behind impregnable walls.

In 1034, the castle became capital of the County of Foix and played a decisive role in medieval military history. During the two following centuries, the castle was home to Counts with shining personalities who became the soul of the Occitan resistance during the crusade against the Albigensians.

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