The Museum of Baltasar Lobo gives Zamora a modern-art counterweight to its Romanesque churches. Lobo was born in the province, left Spain after the Civil War, and built his career in Paris, where his sculpture moved toward simplified human forms with a quiet, almost intimate gravity.
The collection is compact, but it helps explain why Lobo matters beyond Zamora. It is a good stop after the cathedral and castle area: the surrounding old town provides the medieval setting, while the museum shows a 20th-century artist working through exile, memory, and the body in bronze and drawing.