Museo Casa de la Troya

The Casa de la Troya Museum evokes a boarding house of students from the late 19th century. The visits, about 20 minutes long, are guided. The museum can be visited during Easter and in the summer months.

The building was built in the middle of the 18th century. It occupies a plot of 60 square meters and has a surface area of ​​180 square meters.

On the ground floor is the reception area, an old passageway for both people and horses that descended to the stables. On the first floor is the old dining room, also enabled as a place of study, and in another time place of trial of the Tuna Compostelana; and the respect room, a small room used during the visits of the students' relatives.

On the second floor are the bedrooms, one collective and another individual, which was entitled if a peseta was paid more. This room is occupied in the novel by the protagonist, Gerardo Roquer.

In the attic is the kitchen, located in the upper area of ​​the house to take better advantage of natural daylight and facilitate the rapid eviction of smoke from the fireplace; in addition to a small bedroom, which in the novel belonged to Doña Generosa, the patroness.

The basement, formerly used as a stable of horses, is dedicated to university tunas. You can admire diverse musical instruments, scholarships, layers, trophies, photographs ... of the student. It preserves the peculiar stairs that facilitated the passage of the horses, one of the few examples that still remain in the city of Compostela.

The house is set with furniture and tools of the time. Most of the furniture was purchased by the founder of the museum, Benigno Amor Rodríguez, to the family of Jacobo Gil Villanueva, rector of the University of Santiago at the end of the nineteenth century and in the novel is reflected in the character of Don Servando. Also worthy of note is the medical equipment provided by the Vaamonde family. Likewise, photographs, pictures and diverse objects belonging to some of the real people who inspired the characters that appear in the book, such as Manuel Casás (Manolito Casás in the novel) or Javier Puig (Javierito Flama) are preserved.

The museum has a historical library, which consists of copies of different editions of the novel "La Casa de la Troya", as well as publications by authors related to the work of Pérez Lugín such as Valle-Inclán, Camilo Bargiela, Manuel Casás , Enrique Labarta ... and others of compostela theme.