Casa-Museo Miguel Pellicer
Religious museum in the former house of the chaplain of the Pilar, devoted to the Miracle of Calanda of 1640 and the history of the Pilar Temple.
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About the museum
The Casa-Museo Miguel Pellicer occupies the former house of the chaplain of the Pilar, a building erected around 1720 beside the Pilar Temple of Calanda. The temple was raised to commemorate the so-called Miracle of Calanda, the healing attributed in 1640 to the young man from Calanda, Miguel Juan Pellicer, and the museum takes its name from him.
The present layout was organised in the mid-1990s on the initiative of the parish, and the museum opened to the public on 29 March 1998. It is a religious museum that depends on the parish of Calanda.
The route is spread across several levels. In the courtyard and on the ground floor the origins of the temple are explained, along with how the miracle spread through the romance de ciegos (ballads sung by blind street singers). The first floor brings together documents and photographs of hermitages dedicated to the Virgin in Lower Aragon; the second floor keeps old mantles of the Virgin of the Pilar and other textile pieces; and the third floor reproduces the room of the miracle and a traditional kitchen.
Highlights
- Replica of the room of the miracle with the crutches of Miguel Juan Pellicer
- Old mantles of the Virgin of the Pilar from the 17th and 18th centuries
- Cope with the cross of Calatrava, the oldest piece in the museum
- Romance de ciegos that spread the miracle throughout Spain
- Reconstructed traditional kitchen
- Twenty banners of the Rosary mysteries
Permanent exhibition
- Museo del Milagro de Calanda – Four-level route through the Pilar Temple, the 1640 miracle, the hermitages of the Virgin in Lower Aragon and the mantles of the Virgin of the Pilar.
- Founded
- 1998
- Operated by
- Parroquia de Calanda
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The museum is on the Plaza del Templo del Pilar, in the centre of Calanda.
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