Palacio de los Duques del Infantado

This Palace is the most valuable architectural jewel of the city and it was built during Íñigo López de Mendoza´ s term of office, according to the architect Juan Guas´ s project. It was redesigned in 1569 by the architect Acacio Orejón, who decorated the roofs of some of the rooms with frescoes of Italian artists. It offers a mixture of different styles, due to the Flamboyant is mixed with the Mudejar and with several elements from the Renaissance.

It is a residential Palace in which we should highlight the decoration of the facade and the courtyard. It has a Renaissance façade with an eye-catching heraldry decoration, with windows that appear finished off with triangular gables, with decorated columns that are placed on both sides of the door and also a very ornamented gallery of balconies with pointed arches and mullion in the upper part of the building.

Numerous sculpted fantastic animals such as the statues of griffins and lions that are sculpted in the spandrels of the foiled cusped arches appear in the interior courtyard.

The gardens were designed in a Moorish and Renaissance style. The gallery of the garden was designed by Lorenzo Trillo, in 1496.

Inside the building, we should highlight the paintings from the XVI Century that decorate the lower floor rooms. The conserved rooms are a Rómulo Cincinato´ s work, who also decorated the rooms of the palaces of El Pardo and the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo el Real. Nowadays, the Provincial Museum is located here, where you can see interesting collections of pictorial, architectural and ethnographic works.