November 2010, Issue 10
Dollhouse Tourism, Spain
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There is also a tradition in scale train models and miniature buildings and dollhouses, but it is difficult to date these hobbies. There are still a few examples of old, old dollhouses from the last century made by a carpenter as a toy for lucky children of the better families as well as miniature toy trains.
Nowadays, there are even a few museums and a parks in Spain focusing on miniatures. You can find general interest miniatures at Catalunya en Miniatura (Catalunyas Miniature Park). The park introduces visitors to the well known monuments and buildings of Spain, all in miniature. There is also the Pasión
Mudejar Olmedo which features a recreation of the town that was called the Village of Seven Sevens because it had seven seats, seven churches, seven convents, seven arches or gates, seven noble houses, seven and seven villages sources its district. This park is located at Castilla y León.
While in Guadalest there are two other great museums about miniatures and micro miniatures. Here you can see the Statue of Liberty on a needle or a Gernika painting on a seed.
In the scale of dollhouses, the most important are the Antonio Marcos Museum, www.guadalest.es, in Guadalest that features a great exposition of dollhouses and room boxes made by this artist. But the most popular representation of miniatures in Spain are the dollhouses. You can find another great dollhouse museum in Málaga, Miniature Museum in Malaga, has a great exposition of works made by some dollhouse artists too, www.museocm.com.
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