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Barrio de San Juan

Barrio de San Juan

Civil architecture from the 16th century with the "Casa de las Tetas" and the "Balcones de Palo", outstanding for its plastic beauty and unique historical el...
Before the conquest of the Catholic Monarchs, it was the most popular and richest quarter of the medieval city, with a large number of houses and shops. It had three bread ovens, public baths, an alhóndiga, a mill and a mosque (now the church of San Juan). After the conquest, it became known as the Morería neighbourhood because most of the Moorish population that remained in the city after its capture in 1489 was concentrated there, and here we can see two essential examples of 16th century civil architecture in Bastet, one of which is popularly known as the "house of the tits", due to the plastic decoration on its façade that resembles female breasts. It has a beautiful central courtyard with marble columns and capitals supported by thick beams of powerful squareness.The other, the "Balcones de Palo" in the Plaza de San Juan, made up of balconies with wooden balustrades and lattices with straight feet and footings that support an upper body closed in a projecting wall, forming a set of great plastic beauty and which are, without doubt, the best reference of what may have been the urban image of many other streets in the old part of the city in the first third of the 16th century.