Casa Cristo, Ethnographic museum in Encamp, Andorra

Casa Cristo is an ethnographic museum in Encamp housed in a narrow three-story building that preserves rooms from a residential home. The spaces include a pantry, storage areas for household tools, and rooms where people gathered, showing how residents organized their living spaces.

The first written record of the house dates from 1885, when Bonaventura Bigatà, known as Cristo, obtained a permit from the French Veguer to keep a Remington shotgun. The ground and first floors may date from the 18th century, while the upper floors were added in the 19th century. The Estrella family lived here from the 18th century to the mid-19th century, followed by the Cristo family until the 20th century. The house passed to the Comú d'Encamp in 1995 and opened as a museum in 1999.

The house is shown as the sisters Mercè and Florentina Pirot i Bigatà left it, sold to the Comú d'Encamp in 1995 with all its furniture and tools. Since 2001 the museum has held candlelit night visits and the Vespres a pagès, evenings by the fireplace with legends told orally by older residents.

Visits to this museum work best with advance reservations since groups are limited to ten people at a time. Planning ahead ensures you can see the rooms and displays without crowds.

The house passed to the Comú d'Encamp in 1995, sold by Florentina Pirot i Bigatà's descendants together with all its furniture and tools. That single sale kept the contents in place, so the rooms still hold the family's own objects rather than collected pieces.