Description
As it appears in the inscription of the friso of the cover, in 1565 the house was finished - the palace of the Marquis of Camarasa, also known as house-palace of the Cobos. Renaissance style,remember the splendor that the people livedfrom the moment Carlos I sells it to his secretary D. Francisco de los Cobos.
This house is the most outstanding civilian building as an architecture of the people and must be judged, at the same time, as a sign of their power through this special ornamental treatment of classical cover and the symmetrical composition of the facade that confers on it that seal of the palace as a dwelling, centre of dominion and administrative control of a territory.
The cover It is divided into two bodies by an injunction.At the bottom is a half-point arc with acanto highlighted key and framed by acanto pilasters. The upper body is crowned laterally by two vases on pedestal and in the center a shield with a dome and cross of Santiago between columns decorated with reliefs.
On the other hand, distribution of the inner space It does not correspond strictly to that of rooms and housing, but to that of the depositary of the goods in kind that, as income due to the lord, had to be collected there. This aspect is above that of housing in the general consideration of the property. This deposit primacy is well justified by the agreement of the Marquis, whose residence since the end of the 16th century was not even in the land of Jaén, but in Valladolid. This primary function is demonstrated by the two large ships that run on the second floor along the entire body of the house and on whose access bank there is still an allusion to the date of construction of the barn.
In 1997 it was included in the catalogueGeneral of the Historical Heritage of Andalusia.
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