San Telmo Museum
Former sixteenth-century Dominican convent whose church nave is covered in grisaille murals of Basque history and myth.
This guide to the San Telmo Museum in San Sebastián opens beneath a vaulted convent ceiling from the 1540s, now covered in ghostly bronze and silver murals painted centuries later. You'll hear how the building served Dominican friars for nearly three hundred years, survived the 1813 burning of the city, then became an artillery barracks before the city asked painter Josep Maria Sert to reclaim its walls in 1929. The guide follows Sert's sweeping visual history of the Basque people across nearly eight hundred square meters of drapes and canvases. Stand in the nave and turn slowly to take in the full scale of the murals.
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