Jovellanos Birthplace Museum

Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos was one of the main exponents of the Spanish Enlightenment. The Birthplace Museum that bears his name is located in a palace built between the late 14th and early 16th centuries, where the writer was born in 1744. He died in the Asturian town of Puerto de Vega in 1811.

Since Jovellanos' time, the building has undergone several alterations that have affected its façade and internal layout. In the 1950s, work began on adapting the building to convert it into a museum, which was finally inaugurated in 1971. Attached to the building is the chapel of Los Remedios, where the Mausoleum of Jovellanos is located.

Since its inauguration, the Museum's programme has focused on the study and dissemination of the figure of Jovellanos, as well as on the conservation, documentation, research and dissemination of the municipal artistic heritage.