Casa Natal de Cervantes Museum

The Casa Natal de Cervantes Museum is placed in Alcala de Henares, in a constructing that reconstructs the building in which, consistent with the studies of the historian Luis Astrana Marin, 1 the author Miguel de Cervantes changed into born. It is placed within the predominant street, subsequent to the Antezana Hospital. The modern building became built in 1956, evoking the canons of the conventional Castilian-Toledo house. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra turned into born inside the Complutense town on September 29, the day of San Miguel , in 1547.

This records isn't always very dependable, for the reason that simplest tangible element that stays to at the moment is his baptism date on October 9 within the vintage church of Santa Maria, although there may be simplest one tower, apses, bases of columns and chapels. The vicinity of the birthplace of Cervantes is due to the researcher Luis Astrana Marín who made his conclusions public in 1948, in view that on that date the residence had already been demolished. The house become, inside the time of Cervantes, owned by way of his aunt Maria and lived there till 1551, while he moved to Valladolid, where you could also see every other house of his .