Description
Monument of the Historical-Artistic Set of Ubeda. Declared 04 / 02 / 1955. This great mansion is known with the name of its later owners, the Marquis de la Rambla, although in reality its builder was Don Francisco de Molina and Valencia, lord of the village of Ayozar and Knight Twenty-four of Ubeda. He was a family of Don Francisco Vela de los Cobos, whose palace, built by the bartender Jorge Leal under the direction of Andrés de Vandelvira between 1550 and 1564, served as a reference for the design of his own, built intramuros next to the missing Arch of the Calancha.
Without a precise document, however, the intervention of Andrés de Vandelvira in this beautiful building is evident. The traditional historiography has considered it, as it incorporates the stylems used by the Master in other ubetens palaces. Some of the unknowns related to the works have been clarified by V. M. Ruiz Fuentes and A. Almagro García, following the consultation of two notarial documents of the Historical Archive of Ubeda. On November 7, 1575, the singers Juan de Madrid, Juan Hernández and his son Cristóbal Hernández met with Don Francisco de Molina and Valencia to work all the chairs for the façade of his house, but under the condition that they are like those worked in the Vela Cobos palace. On the same date, Juan and Cristóbal Hernández also forced himself to make a "(...) cover and window above (...) and that the stone to be (...) according to the form and form of the cover and window to be questa date in the main houses of Francisco Bela de los Cobos, deceased (...) and to be of the size and height and length that the cover and window has the stones to make the savages." The documentation is very clear in relation to the date of the start of the works, months after the death of Andrés de Vandelvira, set in April of the same year of 1575.
It also seems to be inferred that, by the express desire of the comitant, the cover would be drawn following the model already coined in the city by Vandelvira in the Vela Cobos palace, although with obvious changes. The facade, composed of two separate bodies, is decorated with diamond tips. The cover, located on the left end, is made up of a lintel flanked by Corinthian columns (with alternating acanalions and batons) and high backpilasters on the bases, completing on the upper floor with a vanity entangled with Ionic pilasters with alternating batons, entment and triangular front with mirror on the eardrum and pinaculars on the vertices, repeated in the rest of the voids, two of them open to a beautiful balcony. This beautiful façade is topped with a cornice decorated with mends (to play with those placed on the cover) and mascara. After a large zaguan the courtyard is given way, previously built.
From the 16th century there are two galleries with double panda, made in different years and with designs somewhat outside the local architecture of this period; from the 19th century are the two remaining. The ensemble is monumental and has a pleasant charm, certainly propitiated by a generous vegetation and a central source.
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