Casa-Museo de Miguel Hernández, Literary house museum in Orihuela, Spain.
The Casa-Museo de Miguel Hernández is a single-storey house typical of Orihuela, with two bedrooms, a kitchen, a vestibule and two further rooms. At the back, a granary was built by adding an upper floor, and a large corral where the poet's father kept livestock stands alongside a small vegetable plot and a well.
The poet Miguel Hernández lived here from 1914 to 1934 with his family before moving to Madrid to establish himself as a writer. These years marked his formative period when his bond with his hometown and early literary ambitions were shaped.
The poet came from humble beginnings, and this residence reveals how his daily life and early literary work were intertwined with family and home. Personal objects on display show the connection between his domestic world and his creative pursuits.
The house stands on the slope of Monte de San Miguel, beside the Colegio de Santo Domingo where Hernández studied. Since 2020 the visit begins at the Centro de Recepción de Visitantes, then continues into the family house and the temporary exhibition room. Allow time for all three spaces.
The fig tree in the small kitchen garden is the one Hernández leaned against while writing, and he dedicated several poems to it; palms, also frequent in his verse, grow beside it. The house was used in 2001 as a filming location for the biographical miniseries Viento del pueblo.
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