Museum of the Fueros

The Museo de los Fueros is a historical museum located in Sepulveda (Segovia), inside the church of Santos Justo y Pastor, in the street Santos Justo y Pastor, 8, next to the historic center of the town. It is part of the Museum System of Castilla y León and its exhibition discourse focuses on the history of Sepúlveda and its Community of Villa y Tierra through its famous Fuero. The building that houses it is a church built between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, of Romanesque tradition, a suitable heritage framework for an institution dedicated to the medieval memory of the town. The exhibition brings together historical, artistic, archaeological and documentary heritage, with pieces from churches and institutions of Sepulveda, and uses as a common thread the confirmation and validity of the local charters. Among the outstanding elements documented by the sources are the keys to the seven gates of Sepulveda, the banner of the Community of Villa y Tierra, an oil painting of the Birth of the Virgin from the first half of the 17th century, a stone relief from the end of the 12th century known as Santo Obispo (Saint Bishop) and an Immaculate Conception from the second half of the 16th century. The museum was inaugurated in 2007 and explains the role of the fueros in the legal, social and political organization of the town.