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Bedrooms
The Pazo Casa do Cuadrante (The house with a sundial) always belonged to Valle-Inclán´s maternal family. When the Valle Peña family decided not to reside in Vilanova and his parents’ manor property “Casa del Cantillo” was sold, Valle-Inclán kept coming to town staying at this house where his cousins lived in. They reserved a room for him: “Ramón's single room”.
Bedrooms were private places of intimacy and at the same time, for spirituality and praying. That is why we can see a variety of wood carving crucifixes, painting of votive offerings, portraits of the Holy face of Jesus and Virgin Mary, all dated on 19th century.
The daily toilette was also done here: jugs and the Art Deco washbasin are a good proof of it. They were a real advance for that time as the comfort and functionality were becoming more important.
Rooms and bedrooms are the most “flexible” elements of a Galician house. Its number was easily modified depending on the family needs, e.g., it was enough to divide a room if the number of children increased.
The dining-room
The three meals a day- breakfast, lunch and dinner were had here. But this was not place for the lower classes: the servants served the meals to their masters and retired to the kitchen where they later had theirs.
The regular life of the masters took place in this room, an open space which led to the bedrooms where comfort and functionality are more important than the furnishing. Here we can nowadays enjoy a little piece of a film made around 1920, “La malcasada”, given in by Filmoteca Nacional where we can watch Valle-Inclán in Julio Romero de Torres' studio.
At the end of the piece of the film we can also listen to the author´s voice; it is a record made for “Archivo de la palabra” (Spoken Word Archive of Spanish National Library) relating among others works a fragment of “Sonata de otoño” (Autumn Sonata).
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