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Béjar's textile heritage is preserved in a museum occupying the former Gilart dye works. Its displays include textile machinery, photographs of local factories, sewing machines, buttons and military uniforms. The collection connects the town's industrial past with the materials and processes that shaped working life.
Another local tradition is the appearance of the Hombres de Musgo in the Corpus Christi procession. These moss-covered figures are associated with a legend in which Christian fighters disguised themselves to enter a Muslim-held fortress. Their public dressing at the former Convent of San Francisco forms part of the celebration.
The town's artistic collections include the Mateo Hernández sculpture museum, opened in 1980. It presents work by the locally born sculptor, whose direct carving and animal subjects developed from his early experience among stoneworkers.
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2 November 2013 · Teatro Cervantes, Béjar