The Fundacion Manuel Benedito is a new small museum located in the Barrio Salamanca and features the paintings of Manuel Benedito. This painter was born in Valencia in 1875 and died in 1963. He studied art with Joaquin Sorolla. Later he studied in Rome and visited France, Belgium and Holland, where he also had exhibitions of his art. After 1915 he was named as an academic of the Reales Academias de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. He was also a member of the Hispanic Society.
Benedito was an expert in painting portraits and he made portraits of the high society of Spain. The museum shows many of these excellent portraits.