Things to do in Province of Tarragona, Catalonia: The Best History Museums

The main building of Terres de l’Ebre Museum in Amposta has two exhibition rooms: “The Terres de l’Ebre: from Prehistory to the Middle Ages” and “The Ebro: a Water Highway”. Through a fascinating scenography, visitors can learn about the different cultures that have made the Terres de l’Ebre their home throughout history. You can also see how this great Iberian river has shaped the landscape and the lives of its people with its great natural wealth, diverse ways of life and the strategic situation on the river banks. The museum has important nature, archaeology and ethnology collections with more than 35,000 objects that represent the memory of the territory in the form of material and immaterial assets.

The Living in the Village Interpretation Center, shows the diversity of the municipality's natural spaces, the traditional ways of life linked to farms and agriculture, found in the origin of the town. A second part of the permanent exhibition explains how the urban nucleus was configured and how history and the neighborhood have shaped a way of living in the town.

It is located in the Casal Municipal building, remodeled at the end of the 80s, the main facade was conserved. Since 2009 the first floor is adapted to accommodate the Interpretation Center, while on the ground floor is the Tourist Office. The IC has two rooms. The first one is destined to a permanent exhibition and the second one is destined to multiple purposes.

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A former manor house in the heart of the town of Alcanar that preserves part of its original structure and layout, as well as a magnificent collection of mural paintings, furniture and Modernist-style architectural elements.