Hospital de los Honrados Viejos del Salvador

C/ Baja del Salvador s/n. 23400, Úbeda

Declared Monument 06/03/1931. In the 16th century, both the Crown and private initiative led to the founding and construction of numerous hospital or charity establishments to face, although insufficiently, the serious problems of poverty and social marginalization. In the city of Úbeda, more than a dozen of these institutions came into operation during the Renaissance, of which, only some of them, their buildings have reached us.

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In the central decades of the 16th century, we have documentary evidence that Andrés de Vandelvira intervened in two important healthcare foundations: at the Hospital de los Honrados Viejos del Salvador and at the Hospital del Santísimo Sacramente or Pedro Almíndez Chirino. Nothing remains of the architecture of the latter, but we know that in August 1552 the stonemason Gonzalo Martínez de Alarcos was forced to carve the ashlars of the jambs of its façades, taking into account the conditions drawn up by Andrés de Vandelvira, according to VM Ruiz Fuentes. .

Los Honrados Viejos del Salvador, a hospital founded in the mid-fourteenth century by a Brotherhood of plural composition at the request of Bishop Narváez, to protect helpless old Christians, radically renovated their property in such a way that basically what has come down to us belongs to the Renaissance. The Institution's benefactor was the famous secretary of the Emperor Carlos V, Francisco de los Cobos, from Ubetense, who assigned them an annual income of 100 ducats for the land they had given him for the construction of his funeral Chapel in El Salvador.

Located near the head of the Sacred Chapel, from its old configuration, two arches in its courtyard, the chapel and the portal remain standing. In 1548 Andrés de Vandelvira gave the conditions to make the "room of the church of the ospital", data published by D. Fernando Chueca Goitia. A series of documents, released by V. M. Ruiz Fuentes, allow us to know more about the construction process. The material execution was carried out by the stonemason Antón Ruiz, also entrusted by Vandelvira, and the work was finished in 1551 and with a simple rectangular layout, which in 1563 the carpenter Juan Navarro covered with a wooden ceiling with beautiful ship's bow corbels with angels. , according to a project also by Andrés de Vandelvira.

Of the double pandas in the courtyard, the one that stands in front of the chapel is due to the stonemason Diego de Escalona, ??who, in 1552, gave plans and conditions, although we suppose that the works must have been carried out under the supervision of Vandelvira. The other, in line with the façade, was completed in 1581 following models by S. Serlio. The cover, dated 1567, was carved according to the plans and conditions of Andrés de Vandelvira by stonemasons Diego de Alcaraz, Martín López de Alcaraz and Pedro Hernández de Cantabrana. Aligned with the southern one of the Sacred Chapel, it is of a simpler and more serious invoice as corresponds to the Institution; It is articulated in two bodies, the ground floor with Doric columns on high bases that shelter the semicircular entrance arch, after the entablature the second body is traced following a typical Serlian composition, a semicircular arch as a niche to shelter the titular Saint and on the sides there are lintel windows, everything being framed by Ionic columns on which a second entablature rests. On the roof and -displaced from the façade- stands a simple belfry topped with a triangular pediment with a relief of God the Father.