Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia in Valencia
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Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia

Valencia · Spain · Founded 1839

One of Spain's most important picture galleries, in a former seminary by the Turia gardens.

About Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia

Founded in 1839, the museum occupies the Colegio de San Pío V on the Royal Bridge of Valencia. Its collections grew from the holdings of suppressed religious institutions in the region.

Highlights include works by Sorolla, Velázquez, El Greco, and Goya, alongside one of Spain's finest collections of fifteenth-century Valencian Gothic painting.

Collections & Highlights

Self-Portrait by Velázquez
Adoration of the Shepherds by El Greco
Sorolla galleries
Valencian Gothic altarpieces

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