The Birthplace of Jovellanos Museum occupies a noble house in Cimadevilla, the old quarter of Gijon, where the Enlightenment writer and reformer Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos was born. It mixes biography with paintings, sculpture, and period rooms, so it works as both a historic house and a small art museum.
The setting is half the appeal. Visit while wandering Cimadevilla and the harbour, and the museum helps connect Gijon's maritime present with the older Asturian intellectual and civic world behind it.