Description
After visiting the Mirador, you have to go to the house where Jorge Manrique was born, which you will find just a few steps away. Although it is not documented that Jorge Manrique was born in that house (it is thought that in the case of being born in Segura de la Sierra, the most likely option is that he was born in the castle itself), it was the home of the Manrique family. Already in front of the house, look at its façade, which still preserves the coat of arms of the Feria house (by Mencía de Figueroa, his mother), which shows that it was property of the Manrique family. The building belongs to the civil architecture of the 16th century and on its façade there is a semicircular arch decorated with plant motifs, flanked by boxed pilasters and complemented by small Ionic columns. Behind a cornice, in the upper area, the noble coat of arms of the Figueroa family was carved in stone - in a field of gold, five leaves of the Sinople fig tree placed in sotuer -, Jorge Manrique's maternal family, along with a Cruz de Santiago, which denoted the relationship with the order granted by Rodrigo Manrique. Currently the house is privately owned and you cannot visit its interior, but you can recite his poems and perceive the essence of the place where Jorge Manrique spent his childhood and enjoy the intricate streets where he surely played and forged himself as a warrior and as a poet.Couplet XXV The one with good shelter, loved by virtuous of the people, the Master Don Rodrigo Manrique, so famous
