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Canton of Castres-2

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The canton of Castres-2 is an administrative division of the Tarn department, southern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Castres.It consists of the following communes: Burlats Castres (partly) Montfa Roquecourbe Saint-Germier Saint-Jean-de-Vals Saint-Salvy-de-la-Balme

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Canton of Castres-2
Boulevard du Maréchal Joffre, Castres

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Boulevard du Maréchal Joffre

Boulevard du Maréchal Joffre
81100 Castres, Bisséous
Occitania, France
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Goya Museum
Goya Museum

The Goya Museum (in French: Musée Goya) is an art museum located in Castres, France. The museum was originally established in 1840 and was named after the Spanish painter Francisco Goya since it specialised in hispanic art from 1947. The museum is located in the old Bishop's Palace, which was built in 1675 and is based on the design of Jules Hardouin Mansart, who was an architect of the Palace of Versailles. The gardens were designed by André Le Nôtre, who also worked at Versailles. The museum holds 5000 pieces of art comprising 420 French paintings and a collection of 612 weapons. But it is mainly dedicated to Spanish art with the largest collection in France, including 200 paintings, against 166 in the Louvre, as well as 140 sculptures, coins from Antiquity to the 19th c. and nearly 1000 drawings and prints, like the complete four series of Goya (Caprichos, Disasters of War, Los Disparates and La Tauromaquia), the Gaudí serie by Joan Miró and 83 prints by Salvador Dalí. Its paintings range from the 14th century to the present day, with Francisco Goya himself represented by three paintings given by the son of the painter Marcel Briguiboul in 1894, The Junta of the Philippines (c. 1815, Goya's largest work), Self-Portrait with Spectacles (in French) (c. 1800) and Portrait of Francisco del Mazo (in French) (c. 1815-1820). Other artists in the collection include Juan Rexach, Lluís Borrassà, Alejo Fernández, Francisco de Osona, Vicente Macip, Diego Velázquez, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Our Lady of the Rosary), José de Ribera, El Greco, Francisco de Zurbarán, Francisco Pacheco, Francisco Herrera el Viejo, Juan de Valdés Leal, Alonso Cano, Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, Francisco Ribalta, Sebastián de Llanos y Valdés, Claudio Coello, Pedro Orrente, Sebastián Muñoz, Francisco Varela, Pedro Nuñez de Villavicencio, Gregorio Bausá, Francisco Bayeu y Subias, Luis Paret, Vicente Lopez y Portaña, José Aparicio, Eugenio Lucas Velázquez, Antonio Muñoz Degrain, Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, Aureliano de Beruete, Antonio de La Gándara, Joaquín Sorolla, Santiago Rusiñol, Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Ignacio Zuloaga, Valentin Zubiaurre, Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, Josep Maria Sert, Maruja Mallo, Oscar Dominguez, Celso Lagar, Ismaël de la Serna, Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa, Antoni Clavé, Rafael Durancamps, Manolo Millares, Carlos Pradal and Mentor Blasco. The completely refurbished museum reopened on 15 April 2023 with 23 rooms on 1500 m² and an exhibition hall in the contiguous former abbey of Les Cèdres.