Casa Museo Benlliure

This guide to Casa Museo Benlliure in Valencia begins with a question: why is there no shadowed corner anywhere in the painter's studio? In 1912, Jose Benlliure Gil returned to Valencia after years directing the Spanish Academy in Rome and built a glass-roofed pavilion behind the family home on Blanqueria street. He shared it with his son, nicknamed Peppino, while upstairs hung the bronzes of his brother Mariano, a sculptor whose monuments were rising in cities across Spain. Look for the furniture, tapestries and tiles the family gathered on their travels, still filling these rooms.