Exhibition about the Renaissance Festival
In the sixteenth century, Tortosa was one of the most important cities in Catalonia. The city experienced a moment of economic and social splendor, where culture and humanism played a very important role. Royal Colleges, the direct legacy of this period and built with the aim of educating the Moorish, constitute the most important work of the civil renaissance in Catalonia.The church of Sant Domènec homes the permanent exhibition about the city and the Renaissance Festival where it can be admired the old Town hall’s portal and the splandid Archive file cabinet of 1574. The exhibition takes a tour of the sixteenth century city linking it to the current Renaissance festival, which is celebrated annually to recreate the splendor of the Renaissance in Tortosa and that already has twenty -five years of history.