Museo de los Muralles Reales

Ceuta


This two-floor gallery houses temporary art exhibitions lasting four years each. Squeezed out of the fort's unforgiving architecture, it's a beautifully designed space with plenty of pieces to admire. Worth visiting irrespective of what's on. A superb collection of work by Spanish painter and Ceuta's former deputy mayor Mariano Bertuchi (1884–1955) was on display at the time of writing.


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