The Museum of San Francisco de Medina de Rioseco will host this Saturday, starting at 12.00 in the morning, the historical recreation ‘Of what fulfills remember us’, in which the actors Marco Antonio Sahagún and Lorena Pérez will give life to Admiral of Castilla Fadrique Enríquez de Velasco and his wife, Ana de Cabrera. With limited capacity and an obligation to comply with the health regulations of the pandemic, the activity will be free. Tickets can be reserved at the City Council’s Department of Culture ([email protected]).
Recreation, which will be enlivened by the music played by the pianist Leticia González, It is included within the acts of commemoration of the V Centenary of the Consecration of the church of San Francisco in 1520. In this way, 500 years later, Fadrique Enríquez de Velasco and his wife Ana de Cabrera will return to the Franciscan convent under whose patronage they were founded to remember the important historical events of those distant years.
Historical re-enactment is part of the Midnight in the Convent program organized each summer by the San Francisco Museum, managed by the Rio de Janeiro City Council, in an initiative subsidized by the Valladolid Provincial Council, within its call to carry out tourist activities. Due to the pandemic, the activity had to change the night schedule for the mid-morning daytime.
As part of the commemoration of the Centennial of the Consecration of the Church of San Francisco, on Sunday the Sweet Closing activity will also take place, with a visit to the San Francisco and Santa Clara centers, founded by Admiral Fadrique Enríquez de Velasco. Registration can be done at the Tourist Office (983720319).
Further, Two conferences will be held on December 18 and 21, which will be given at the Principal Theater, from 8:00 p.m., by the professor of Art History at the University of Valladolid Ramón Pérez de Castro (‘Art and power in times of change. Fadrique II and the San Francisco Convent’) and the restorer of the Conservation Center of Cultural Assets of the Junta de Castilla y León Juan Carlos Martín García (‘The conservation of the cultural heritage of museums: their values and their conservation’). The two conferences can be followed electronically.
Until February 14, also on the occasion of the commemoration, You can visit the temporary exhibition ‘Of those who meet to remember us’ in the San Francisco Museum, with hours of guided visits from Tuesday to Sunday, at 12 and 17 hours. The exhibition shows about twenty works of art, among which the seventeenth-century canvas Saint Francis of Assisi child giving alms, by Felipe Gil de Mena, who returns to Medina de Rioseco a century and a half after he traveled to Valladolid. , along with other works of art, after the Confiscation, which would eventually end up in the funds of the current National Sculpture Museum, which has also lent to the exhibition the reliefs of Santa Clara and San Francisco, from the 16th century, by the sculptor from Rio de Janeiro Pedro de Bolduque, which would have belonged to the local Poor Clare convent, also founded by Fadrique Enríquez de Velasco.
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