It is a strong commitment of the Baltanás City Council to endow the extensive region of Cerrato Castellano, which includes towns in the provinces of Palencia, Valladolid and Burgos, of an Interpretation Center where the singular personality and idiosyncrasy of a little-known territory is represented, in which there is a great variety of models of landscape, history, heritage and ways of life.
The civil work valued at a cost of more than one million euros is being carried out under the Archmilenio Program of the Junta de Castilla y León, which is joined by a musealization project sponsored by Adri-Cerrato Palentino and the City Council of Baltanás, which has already been entrusted to the Castilian-Leonese company Sercam, with which the necessary museographic and exhibition structures will be provided to what will be an important cultural complex, which is committed to becoming a center of revitalization and development for this region of southeast of Palencia
Buildings comprising
The Museo del Cerrato Castellano is installed in two architectural ensembles apparently independent from the outside but that make up a unitary museographic space. Thus, the main structure is the Hospital de Santo Tomás, a magnificent 18th century building that houses a spectacular Baroque façade. The Museum is completed with two adjoining modernist brick buildings, which have been rehabilitated on their façade and profoundly reformed on the inside, to accommodate the space dedicated to the Cerrato Castellano Interpretation Center.
