Palacio del Marqués de la Rambla

Plaza del Marqués,1. 0, Úbeda

Monument of the Historic-Artistic Complex of Úbeda. Declared 02/04/1955. This great mansion is known by the name of its later owners, the Marquis de la Rambla, although in reality its builder was Don Francisco de Molina y Valencia, lord of the town of Ayozar and Caballero Veinticuatro de Úbeda. He was a relative of Don Francisco Vela de los Cobos, whose palace, built by stonemason Jorge Leal under the direction of Andrés de Vandelvira between the years 1550 and 1564, served as a reference to design his own, built within the walls next to the missing Calancha arch .

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Without a precise document to support it, however the intervention of Andrés de Vandelvira in this beautiful building is evident. Traditional historiography has considered it that way, since it incorporates the styles used by the Master in other Ubeta palaces. Part of the unknowns related to the works have been clarified by V. M. Ruiz Fuentes and A. Almagro García, after consulting two notarial documents from the Historical Archive of Úbeda. On November 7, 1575, stonemasons Juan de Madrid, Juan Hernández and their son Cristóbal Hernández agreed with Don Francisco de Molina y Valencia to carve all the ashlars for the facade of his house, but on the condition that they be as those worked in the Vela Cobos palace. On the same date, Juan and Cristóbal Hernández also forced themselves to carve a “(...) cover and window above (...) that the stone should be (...) according to the shape and manner of the doorway and window that date in the main houses of Francisco Bela de los Cobos, deceased (...) it should be of the size and height and length that said doorway and window has the stones to make the savages. The documentation is very clear in relation to the start date of the works, months after the death of Andrés de Vandelvira, set in April of that same year, 1575.

It also seems to be deduced that, by express wish of the client, 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 façade, with a landscape composition, is made up of two bodies separated by an impost decorated with diamond points. The portal, located at the extreme left, is made up of a lintel flanked by Corinthian columns (with grooves and alternating canes) and retropylasters raised on basements, completing on the upper floor with a lattice span with Ionic pilasters grooved with alternating rods, entablature and triangular pediment with a mirror on the tympanum and pinnacles on the vertices, a pattern repeated in the rest of the openings, two of them open to a beautiful continuous balcony. This beautiful façade is finished off with a cornice decorated with corbels (matching those placed on the cover) and masks. After a wide hallway there is a patio, built previously.

Two galleries with double pandas are preserved from the 16th century, made in different years and with designs somewhat alien to the local architecture of this period; from the 19th century are the remaining two. The complex is monumental and has a pleasant charm, undoubtedly favored by a generous vegetation and a central fountain.