VI. PACKING AND UNPACKING

Passengers travelling by coach could only take with them their personal and light luggage. Their heavy and big belongings were sent by separate carriages. In the exhibition there are a great variety of boxes and containers to hold all kind of things from pieces of furniture and hunting instruments to religious objects and ornaments.

There are also on show several unpacked household goods and pieces of furniture brought to the palace for the comfort of the courtiers during their long stay in El Escorial through the autumn season.

The locksmith in the workshop of Cocheras was responsible for the security of luggage, boxes and carriages. There are very interesting exhibitis of locks, padlocks and iron fittings from the XVI to the XIX century, an original XVIII century lock of the Coliseo Theatre and its key of three turns, called "llave del Rey" (key of the King).