Less than a week. This is how long the places available for guided tours of the Cortès art collection lasted for the president, Carlos Pollán, announced October 31 and that they could be reserved since last Monday.
Until the end of the year, there were six meetings – November 15, 22 and 30, December 20, 21 and 27 – for groups of 30 to 35 people and, within a few days, all places have been sold. This is why, given the influx of requests and the success of the public, a new visit schedule will be opened for 2025, which will be announced soon.
During the tour, the art historian Beatriz Sánchez Valdelvira is responsible for explaining some of the curiosities of the more than thirty works of art presented throughout the visit. Walking through the corridors and rooms of the Cortes de Castilla y León allows you to directly see much of the contemporary art of the Community.
The tour begins in the main hall, where two large works on historical themes from the 19th century are exhibited, such as The Communards And Battle of Villalar. The first pictorial work of Juan Planelle and the second painting, the work of Manuel Pícolo. In front of them, the large sculpture by Venancio Blanco: Shapes for the spirit of Castilla.
Other rooms of the Parliament, such as the Reception Hall, house works by pioneers of abstraction like Modesto Ciruelos, Luis Sáez, Esteban Vicente, as well as landscapes by Díaz-Caneja and Cuadrado Lomas.
Like the Senate, the Cortes de Castilla y León has a corridor known as the “lost steps”, where there is an authentic art gallery where young and established artists shake hands. You can admire the works of Fernández Pinedo, Ricardo Sánchez, Raquel Bartolomé, José Sánchez Carralero, Cuasante or Vela Zanettiamong other authors.
One of the works that will attract the most attention from visitors is the one located in the heart of Parliament, the hemicycleand it is the 4th century mosaic found in the surroundings where the building of the Cortes of Castilla y León is located today.
Finally, and after having been able to contemplate the 36 visits to the town of Zamoraby Félix de la Concha and Saint Catherine by Luis Morea plea for peace, outside we can see the graffiti of Xolaka and Eneko Azpiroz, which represent Miguel Delibes and the hope in Looking to the future. The tour ends with the snakes of Dialogue around noiseby the sculptor Ana Jiménez, the work of bronze sculpture Disturbing mobileof Coomonte, which will surprise more than one visitor because it is a tilting sculpture, and the Woman sitting by Baltasar Lobo, which has the category of Asset of Cultural Interest with the mosaic of the Hemicycle.
