Vázquez de Molina Palace

BIC (Cultural Heritage Site) Built around the middle of the 16th century by Andrés de Vandelvira, one of the finest architects of the Spanish Renaissance. With this palace, Vandelvira achieves the most classic work of his entire career and perhaps of the entire Andalusian Renaissance. Free-standing on all four sides, it is horizontally structured into three floors and vertically into seven differently wide sections, to achieve an optical effect of symmetry and solidity. Moreover, Vandelvira, in a display of freedom, reverses the established architectural orders, placing the Corinthian on the first floor, the Ionic on the second, and on the third floor eight atlantes and caryatids. The interior is organized around an elegant columned courtyard, where the groin vaults and the chromatic contrast between the color of the stone and the white of the lime and marble, relate it to the courtyards of Renaissance Florence.