Museum
The imposing fortress now has an ambitious museum space that shows in an entertaining and didactic way, with the use of audiovisual and other leading media, information about its history, the illustrious people who inhabited it, its importance in Galicia and its integration into the beautiful landscaped surroundings.
The exhibition project focuses on ten axes: the presence of the fortress in the environment from its origin; the value of the location for the control of the territory; the destruction by the Irmandiños; the role of a legendary figure like Pedro Madruga; strength as a center of power; the hypothesis of the Galician origin of Christopher Columbus; the lineage of the Sotomayor; the transformation of the castle into a residential palace; the passionate figure of the writer and defender of women Maria Vinyals; and the architectural reforms carried out throughout the life of the castle.
Avant-garde museumization techniques
The tour, which begins once the drawbridge has been passed and lasts for an estimated 45 minutes, will be carried out using the most avant-garde museumization techniques, with seven audiovisuals, 3d recreations, video mapping and magic boxes. In addition, the visit will alternate with didactic content to test the ingenuity, mainly of the little ones.
The magic boxes are one of the great attractions of this entertaining and enjoyable itinerary through the fortress. Through a play of lights and mirrors, they bring the viewer closer to the life forms of some of the characters linked to the castle's history.
The video mapping, one of the most surprising resources of the entire exhibition, is located in the Torre de Homenaje, and tells the story of Pedro Álvarez de Sotomayor, known as Pedro Madruga, the legendary nobleman linked to the fortress, about whom there is also the theory that he could be the real Christopher Columbus. In one of the rooms, keys are provided about the navigator's possible connection with the Sotomayor lineage.
Audiovisuals, high-resolution photographs, current and historical, facsimiles of historical documents, chronological landmarks, a model on which different elements of the natural and cultural landscape are projected in a zenith way, and three on different historical moments of the castle, will transport us in a sensory journey through different eras for almost a thousand years.
