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Palace of Los Enriquez

Palace of Los Enriquez

The only Andalusian example of an Italian Renaissance villa, it stands out for its Gothic and Renaissance architecture, gardens and Mudejar and Plateresque d...

The Enríquez Palace was ordered to be built by the couple formed by Enrique Enríquez and María de Luna in 1506, uncles of the Catholic Monarchs. These characters and their descendants had an enormous importance in the historical development of the city and the whole region during the 16th and 17th centuries, and the palace has several construction phases ranging from the late Gothic to the Renaissance. At first it was a country house with a tower, but later it became a Renaissance country villa with a U-shaped floor plan defined by a long bay with a loggia on the main façade and two pavilions or belvederes supported by columns attached to the ends of the rear façade. Inside, it houses extraordinary Mudejar armourings and alfarjes with profuse Plateresque decoration painted with candelieri, grotesques, putti and heraldic motifs. Its condition as a palace built outside the city walls and the configuration of the building itself, centred around the gardens of its rear façade in which there was a large pond, make it the only example of a pleasure palace in the style of the great Italian villas of the Renaissance that exists in the whole of Andalusia.