📜 Village-wide outdoor art gallery featuring portraits of past and present residents.
🔍 Declared a Historic-Artistic Complex in 1998, located in Sierra de Francia mountains.
🖼️ Unique outdoor art gallery with over 800 portraits
🚶 Explore narrow cobblestone streets and traditional architecture
🏞️ Enjoy the natural beauty of Las Batuecas National Park
🏛️ Visit historical landmarks like the Church of Our Lady of the Snows and ethnographic museum
🚗 No direct car access, requires walking uphill to/from parking
🅿️ Park at the top of the hill and walk down to the village.
🍽️ Enjoy food, drinks, and local wine at Plaza Mayor.
The project, 'Las Caras de Mogarraz', began in 2012 by artist Florencio Maíllo Cascón, transforming 1967 photographs by Alejandro Martín Criado (taken for national ID cards) into large-scale encaustic paintings. Initially 388 portraits, now over 800, including modern residents and those without homes displayed in the Church of Our Lady of the Snows. Mogarraz is a picturesque village in Salamanca, Castile and León, nestled in the Sierra de Francia mountain range within Las Batuecas-Sierra de Francia natural park. The village also features the Plaza Mayor, Casa de las Artesanías (Ethnographic Museum with free exhibition of costumes, leather work, and jewelry), and the 17th-century Renaissance-style Church of Our Lady of the Snows.
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