Thieves have broken into a museum in Villena, eastern Spain, and stolen items from the Treasure of Villena, one of Europe’s most important Bronze Age gold collections.
The robbery took place early Thursday morning, August 27, 2026. According to a spokesperson for the Villena municipal council, the museum’s alarm was triggered at about 5:20 a.m., and the thieves had left the building by 5:24 a.m.
Authorities are still carrying out an inventory to determine exactly how many objects were stolen from the collection, which contains more than 50 artefacts, most of them made of gold.
The Treasure of Villena includes 29 bracelets, 11 bowls, three bottles and other objects made mainly from gold, as well as silver, iron and amber. The artefacts date back to around 1,000 BC.
The treasure was discovered in 1963 by Spanish archaeologist José María Soler, who found it inside a vessel buried in a dried-up riverbed in Villena.
Officials described the robbery as “super-fast and super-professional”, while insisting that all the museum’s security systems had been activated and that there had been no security failure.
Investigators are also examining whether an alarm at a nearby sports centre, which went off shortly before the museum robbery, was deliberately triggered as a diversion.
The incident is the latest in a series of high-profile museum thefts in Europe. In October 2025, thieves stole valuable jewellery from Paris’s Louvre Museum, while earlier this month four Renaissance artworks were stolen from a museum in Sicily.
Italian police also recently recovered paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse worth more than $10.4m that had been stolen from a museum near Parma.
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