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Archbishop's Palace
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One of the flanks of the Town Hall Square, in which all buildings are headquarters of various powers, occupies what this imposing palace which covers an entire block with wide streets and facades of three close staircase.
Its origins go back to the donation by King Alfonso VIII of several houses to the Archbishop of Rada Jimenez, advocate for the construction of the Cathedral. Some three hundred years later, Archbishop Peter Tavera instructing Alonso Covarrubias of the construction of the new palace. In his past Mudejar are only a few ornamental arches on the far right.
The severe main facade of brick masonry and opens holes simple regular windows at its two plants. The home is in stone, similar in structure to that of Fortress, with its round arch cushion adorned with "mirrors" footprint staff Covarrubias, framed this time paired with four columns on high pedestals, crowned with two female figures that show repeated the coat of Cardinals.
The symbolic imperial columns of Hercules with the slogan "Plus Ultra" fall from a balcony seventeenth century, opened by order of the next archbishop, Cardinal Martinez Silica. The original stone shield was replaced by another smaller and tight, sheltered by the classic triangular pediment. The current arc of union between the episcopal residence and the Cathedral replaced in the seventeenth century the original, lifted by the great Cardinal Mendoza.
There were subsequent extensions of the complex, emphasizing the enlightened Cardinal Lorenzana who commanded open carriages at the entrance to the slope of the Arc de Palacio, beside the "house-poor", where he delivered food to the needy and completely redo residence and replace the old Gothic chapel on the other baroque, with the door to the streets of Trinidad. |
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