Barco Museum Boniteiro "Reina del Carmen"

The Queen of Carmen is an old fishing boat saved from the scrapping and converted into the Ethnographic Museum of Marine Culture. Lino Pernas welcomes you to the boat. Lino is the spirit of the ship and the museum. Tourist guide, divulge and responsible for the maintenance of the boat itself. The visit begins under the cover of the bow castle. As Lino reports, the Queen of Carmen is an old 25-meter-long wooden boniteer. Its first destination, in the far 1968, was the coast of the beautiful ripping in the waters of the Azores and ending in the Cantabric. The visit continues on the bow floor, where part of the 14 sailors who formed the ship's crew slept, and shared such a small space during the 20 or 25 days that a tide lasted. And from there we went to the cellar. Where the beautiful was previously stored, and also to a lesser extent swordfish, hake and bocte, artisanal fishing gears such as the currican for the fishing of the pretty, the surface longline and bottom for the fishing of the hake and swordfish, the gill gears for the rape, the trawling gears for the fishing of cigala and fowls, the marisking gears for the fishing of the peel or the nases for the fishing of the necks and ocupos. The visit is on the machine camera. Lino keeps the equipment in perfect operation, and we can start up and hear how the bilge pumps in the background work. We went up to the muzzle to pass through the bridge of command, the master's cabin, the kitchen and the only bathroom of the boat, to finish the visit on the aft slack. The last reading of the Queen of Carmen took place on 27 September 1998 from the port of Santander to the port of Burela. In 2000, the Concello de Burela saved the ship of the scrapping to give it a second life as the Ethnographic Museum of the Marine Culture, awarded as the Blue Centre for Environmental Education and since 2010 in the State Association of Museums of the Sea and that each year receives the visit of more than 4,000 people among tourists, curious and students of different schools. The guided tours take place from Tuesday to Sunday at 11: 00, 12: 00, 13: 00, 17: 00, 18: 00 and 19: 00. In order to arrange your visit to the boat, reservation is required at the Tourist Office of Burela or on the phone 982 888 506. The price of tickets is 5 euros for adults and 3 euros for children between 8 and 18 years. Children under the age of 8 enter for free, and groups of more than 20 adults are reduced to 4 euros. .

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