The Archaeological Museum (Museo Nacional Arqueologic)
This museum is situated at the Pla del Rei 5 and houses a collection of Roman relics like mosaics, ceramics, coins, silvers, sculpture, and many more. The exceptional attraction in this museum is the mosaic Head of Medusa , with its eyes exhibiting a very sharp stare.
Museu Necr
The Necropolis Museum is just outside town, and it was one of the most important Christian burial sites of Spain during the third to fifth centuries.
Casa Pau Casals
Casa Pau Casals is located at 59-61 Palfuriana Avenue , in El Vendrell (tel. 97-768-42-76). This museum honors one of the world s greatest cellist, Pablo Casals . This museum is installed in the renovated house where he lived until he went into self-imposed exile during the fascist regime in 1939.
The museum is composed of 17 rooms all of which are filled with Casals memorabilia, including his first cello, photographs and films of his performances, the Peace Medal awarded by the United Nations in 1971, and photographs of the artist with famous men (like John F. Kennedy , who awarded him the Medal of Freedom).
Casals passed away in Puerto Rico in 1973 at the age of 96, and he was finally brought home to his beloved hometown in Catalonia in 1979, where he was buried at the El Vendrell graveyard.
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