Picasso's Birthplace and Museum
First floor, where Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born.
Plaza de la Merced, 15
Dolores Ruiz Picasso, better known as Lola, was Pablo’s buddy as a child. She went to the renowned School of La Sagrada Familia, run by French nuns, which was a pebble’s throw from the family home in Plaza de la Merced. When the family moved to La Coruña, Lola studied music.
After moving to Barcelona, in 1909, she married the neuropsychiatrist Juan Bautista Vilató Gómez, whose parents were a professor of neurobiology from Barcelona and a woman from Málaga. Lola and Juan had six children; two of them became artists like their uncle – José Vilató Ruiz and Javier Vilató Ruiz. Lola became the living memory of the life of the Ruiz Picasso family in Málaga.
