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One of the popular museums in Spain is the Museum of Santa Cruz accommodating the biggest collection of the paintings by El Greco in the world. The building in which the museum is located, is very ancient and was erected in XVI century.The Santa Cruz used to be a hospital and its erection was commenced in 1494. The construction did not take too much time and the result was quite ordinary. The only attractive detail was the cross formed by the four buildings together with the hospital.At that time the hospitals were intended not for the very medical treatment of the patients but mostly for their spiritual cure. The rooms of the Santa Cruz hospital were arranged so that the prayer was audible in every corner of the hospital. There are three main halls in the museum: archaeological hall, painting and sculpture hall and the applied art hall. Many museums transferred their exhibits to Santa Cruz museum. Here you can find a very good collection of Spanish painters, and the paintings by El Greco have even a separate hall assigned for them.
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