Jabalquinto Palace

It is one of the jewels of the Spanish Renaissance Gothic style. It was ordered by the Señor de Jabalquino, Juan Alfonso de Benavides Manrique, the king Fernando el Católico´ s first cousin once removed. Its façade is in Flamboyant style with Mudejar influences. It is framed by two cylindrical buttresses with mocarabes crowned by eaves similar to the ones of the windows.

There is a Baroque staircase covered by a semi- spherical vault. The beautiful Renaissance courtyard, with Baroque elements, has a double arcade with marble columns and coats of arms.

The door to the courtyard forms an ogee arch with two trunks that are climbed up by fourteen small human figures. In the second body, there are four windows twin to the central ones, also between pinnacles and mullioned windows with thin columns. On top, eight coats of arms “a la valona” (inclined) with helmets, crests and lambrequines (a short of ornamental drapery for the top of a window or door or the edge of a shelf). There are decorative elements such as diamonds points, foliages, flowers, knots, pinnacles, heraldry and mocarabes.

It has become headquarters of the University of Antonio Machado.