The sea he wrote about
The house stands on the very beach his maritime novels are set on.
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Partly. The museum is about a man and his life rather than his texts, and the story itself is compelling: a novelist who became a deputy, was exiled, died abroad and had his body returned. But anyone who has read his Valencia novels will find the visit far deeper, because this place is their setting.
The beach itself is wide and sandy with a long promenade, and the area is known for rice and paella restaurants — Valencia being paella's home city. The tram from the centre is direct and takes about twenty minutes, so make the day beach, lunch and museum together.
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The house of the Spanish novelist Vicente Blasco Ibáñez on the Malvarrosa beach in Valencia, rebuilt and open as a museum. Blasco Ibáñez was among Spain's best-known writers at the start of the twentieth century, and also a politician, a journalist and an exile. His novels about Valencia, its countryside and its sea are what made him read, and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse made him internationally known and became a famous American film. The museum shows his personal possessions, manuscripts and library, with photographs from his political life and exile, and explains his relationship with the city he wrote about and was then forced to leave. The location is part of the meaning: the house stands on the beach he wrote about, with the sea directly in front, the setting of his maritime novels. The visit folds naturally into a day on the Malvarrosa, an area with a promenade and rice restaurants, a short tram ride from the centre.
The house stands on the very beach his maritime novels are set on.
His papers, books and personal possessions as he left them.
The museum covers his political life and exile, not only his literature.
Malvarrosa beach, Valencia