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Palace of the Count of Guadiana History: In Renaissance style, this building dates back to the 17th century (1611-1615), consists of four sections and combines traditional elements of the area with others of Flemish origin and based on pictures of buildings that were disseminated at that time. The great decorativeness that it possesses shows us its ostentatious and propagandistic character, highlighting the heraldry that tells us about the family genealogy. This items are provided and maintained by Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte - Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, and IPCE - Institute of Cultural Heritage of Spain The picture in color is Ubeda PM 091268 E por Paul M.R. Maeyaert - 2016 - PMR Maeyaert, Belgium - CC BY-SA.

The palace was built between the 16th and 17th centuries. It has one of the most beautiful towers in Spain. Noble symbol par excellence of the city's palatial civil architecture, with great decorative motifs, it shows its ostentatious character and exaltation of a lineage. It is called that because it belonged to the descendants of D. Lope de la Cueva y Guzmán, first Count of Guadiana since 1711, for a long time. The palace was built in the last decade of the 16th century and its tower later in the 17th century - between 1611 and 1615 -, conceived with great plasticity to be shown on Calle Real. First they built the main body, with a square plan with a central patio around which the rooms are distributed. But the owners, in a display of presumption and ostentation of their lineage, wanted to show their mansion overlooking Calle Real, which was the busiest and busiest due to its incessant commercial activity, and at the beginning of the 17th century, they added the magnificent tower. The tower consists of four bodies. The first is a repetition of the lower body of the palace. The second and third have a similar scheme, formed by three large openings, the central one cornered, with a Doric column of white marble as a mullion, with anthropomorphic stipes on both sides, above which rises an entablature and cornice with classical moldings, topped . by the family shields crowned with curved pediments. The palace became a school supervised by the Carmelite mothers, and after its closure the palace has become a luxury hotel.

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