Description
The Casa de las Torres is a palace in the style of a turreted urban fortress (hence its popular name) and currently houses the School of Arts and Crafts of Úbeda, where studies in Artistic Cabinetmaking, Engraving and Stamping Techniques, Projects and Direction of Decoration Works and Baccalaureate of Arts are carried out. The palace is a space widely used by Antonio Muñoz Molina in his work El Jinete Polaco, fictionalizing the legend of “the sandwich,” a woman who appeared at the beginning of the 20th century after renovation works on the palace. Remains that are assigned to Doña Ana de Orozco. According to legend, motivated by revenge, her husband, Andrés Dávalos, dressed her in nun's habits, placed a rosary in her hands and walled her up alive. This could have occurred in the middle of the 16th century.“[…] he saw again the face of the woman walled in the Casa de las Torres and her eyes hallucinated by darkness and death, he saw his grandfather Manuel dressed in the uniform of the Assault Guard and thought that it was time to return to Mágina […]” Antonio Muñoz Molina. The Polish Horseman.
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