The "Don Pepe Marsilla House Museum. Bullas 1900" seeks to rescue an important part of the local culture of Bullas, recreating the living ways at the…

The "Don Pepe Marsilla House Museum. Bullas 1900" seeks to rescue an important part of the local culture of Bullas, recreating the living ways at the beginning of the 20th century. It also wants to preserve the town's historical heritage represented in this building.
The visit to this House Museum is placed within the Bullas Wine Route, the set of resources which organizes the tourist offer in the municipality around its identity sign, the wine, but also covering other monumental, historical, cultural and natural attractions.

The visit to this House Museum is placed within the Bullas Wine Route, the set of resources which organizes the tourist offer in the municipality around its identity sign, the wine, but also covering other monumental, historical, cultural and natural attractions.

Bullas 1900

Time has stopped in 1900 in this old noble house located in Bullas - Rosario street, just behind the parish church. It belonged to Don José Marsilla Melgares de Aguilar (1854 - 1930), commonly known as Don Pepe, who was a rich and powerful landowner but also mayor of Bullas twice.

The living area

Don Pepe's House shows the ostentatious way of life of the local landowners at the beginning of the 20th century. This fact can be noticed in the library, the living room, the dining room and the bedrooms. The decoration of this noble part of the building is marked by the Modern Style, the main one in Spain and Europe in those years which is characterized by an inspiration in nature, the use of curved lines and the figures stylization.

The working area

This wide part of the building is a faithful image of the economic activity developed in those years in Bullas as it is the place where the different works and tasks to process the huge productions of Don Pepe's properties took place.