Museo de la Catedral de Ávila

Ávila's cathedral museum is the church's own treasury, laid out in the Cardinal's Chapel and in the rooms of the treasure and of the choir books beside the cathedral. Its centrepiece is a silver processional monstrance by Juan de Arfe, one of the great Spanish silversmiths of the Renaissance, who signed the contract in 1564 and finished the piece in 1571. It rises in six tiers, alternately hexagonal and round, and the base carries 30 small reliefs of scenes from Genesis.

Around it are the cathedral's 15th-century choir books, a 12th-century painted fragment showing Saint Paul, and works attributed to the painter Fernando Gallego and the sculptor Pedro de Mena. The best-known name on the walls belongs to a portrait of Garci Ibáñez de Múxica, an Ávila knight dressed in black. The cathedral presents it as an El Greco, while modern El Greco scholars place it among his doubtful works.