Month: June 2021

For a few days we have been observing the increase in visits to our WEB, We can deduce that interest is growing in what the College of the Cardinal can offer to tourism and hence the consultation of our WEB page, from which we offer the visits taken and the countries of origin these days, perhaps preparing a summer visit to Monforte and its magnificent tourist offer: landscape, oenological, gastronomic and cultural. We can see that inland tourism is clearly taking hold

In the Foundation Archive, we can find a lot of documentation from the 16th and subsequent centuries. Among them there is one that attracts attention, it is a document of sale of a vineyard dated October 22, 1576, which was sold for seventy ducats. The curious thing about this deed is the care of the presentation that the “Escribano” (notary) who vouched for it. He drew a capital letter E, capitular, in pen and ink and in it he put the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian or (S. Bastiano) as the same scribe recorded in the upper part of the letter E.

The letter is also surprising that despite being already in the midst of a renaissance, it keeps much of the Gothic letter used until the middle of the previous century.

We illustrate this entry of our WEB page with a photo of the capitular and first lines of said document and a photo of two ducats or doubloon, of the time.

A few days ago a surprising and culturally very interesting piece was added to the Archaeological collection of the Foundation that we invite you to know, if only through the information in the link of this entry. The Roman world is becoming more and more known to us and its encounter with some of the pre-Roman cultures generated visions of things, of the world, of man that today can surprise us. We invite you to access from this link the information that we offer to visitors to our exhibition through a QR code.