Portal de Turismo de Castilla y León

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14 April to 20 April 2025

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Throughout Holy Week (April 14-20), the Castilian and Leonese Language Institute is organizing open days at the Palacio de la Isla in Burgos. Guided tours are provided, offering an insight into the history of a building that has had numerous uses and tenants over its 140-year history. In order to serve visitors and tourists visiting the building during these festive periods, the institution is extending its daily opening hours to the public from 11:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and in the afternoon from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The Burgos Association of Professional Guides is participating in this educational initiative.

The aim of this initiative is to disseminate the work that the Castilian and Leonese Institute of Language has been carrying out in the field of research into the origins of the Spanish language and in the promotion of the literature of the Community, and to bring closer the history of one of the most emblematic buildings of the capital of Burgos, declared a Site of Cultural Interest (BIC) in 1942. Currently, the institution houses on its three floors a series of literary exhibitions that allow us to recognise the scope of the creative work of artists from Castilla y León.

The institution's current exhibition offering includes The Flight of the Blackbird. The Early Years of a Trilling Magazine , an exhibition that recreates the editorial project deployed in the photography and literature magazine 'Mirlo,' a publication founded in 2022 by photographer and designer Asís G. Ayerbe and writer Óscar Esquivias, curators of this exhibition.

Furthermore, the Palacio de la Isla presents in the Artesa Classroom (ground floor) original documentation and photographs from the Burgos-based visual and avant-garde poetry magazine Artesa, directed for years by poet Antonio L. Bouza. Likewise, the participatory project El almanaque del presente (The Almanac of the Present) (chapel) by artist Fernando Lamata invites visitors to pause and reflect for a few minutes each day, inviting them to leave a message inspired by the almanac itself.

On the other hand, the Hall of the Origins of Spanish (first floor) presents a selection of facsimile editions of titles from the Origins period, while The Enchanted Tower (second floor) offers a look at the symbolic and dreamlike world of the Leonese poet Adolfo Alonso Ares. In the gardens, the Galaxia Crítica exhibition commemorates, with large-scale images by photographer Asís G. Ayerbe, the writers who have won the " Castilla y León Critics Award," which this institution convenes annually.

Event website : https://www.ilcyl.com/