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Galician Museum of Entroido (Carnival)

Xinzo de Limia, Limia, Ourense

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Galician Museum of Entroido (Carnival)

Monument · Xinzo de Limia, Limia, Ourense

Museum located in the former market square (plaza de abastos) of Xinzo de Limia (Ourense), refurbished to house it, which brings together costumes and masks from the whole of Galician carnival, from peliqueiros to boteiros, felos and cigarróns. Opened on 23 October 2015 by the then president of the Xunta, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, it had to close in 2017 when the town council found itself unable to manage it, and reopened in February 2019 after its management was handed over to the Diputación de Ourense. It has a second room devoted to the writer Carlos Casares, “Os mundos de Carlos Casares”, and also houses the headquarters of the Asociación A Pantalla, the typical mask of the entroido of Xinzo.

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