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. Museum of Religious Art VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
The two rooms of the museum Practical Information
contain rare and valuable
exhibits, such as a mahogany Loiola (Guipúzcoa). Road Map B4.
reredos, reliquaries, and copies Sanctuary: Tel 943 02 50 00.
Santa Casa: Open 10am–1pm &
of St Ignatius’ Spiritual Exercises 3:30–7pm daily (to 1:30pm and
in many languages.
7:30pm Jun–Aug). Last admission
45 minutes before closing.
5 8:30am (in the Chapel of the
Conversion). 8 daily. &
∑ santuariodeloyola.org
Coats of Arms
The interior of the dome,
33 m (108 ft) in
diameter, is covered
in carved royal coats
of arms set against a
back ground of pink marble –
the work of Gaetano Pace.
Entrance to the Library
The library has 150,000
volumes, of which some
30,000 date from the 15th
to 18th centuries. There is
Doors of the Basilica also a music archive.
The doors are made of cedar
of Lebanon and mahogany
imported from Cuba; in the
niche above them is a figure of
St Ignatius by Ignacio de Ibero.
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