Palace of the Marquis of Salvatierra


Located at the historical city quarter of Ronda
and next to the Padre Jesús quarter, it has got a magnificient
baroque facade made of stone masonry with a linteled door, Corynthian
columns and a great typical of Ronda forging balcony.
The façade
ends with a broken pediment. Inside there can be seen nude figures, with
an Indian influence in his aspect.

The male figures are joking and showing their thonges,
while the female, while they are covering their nude bodies. Both kind
of figures are holding the lintel, and at the centre of it is located
the noble arm coat of the family leaded by Vasco Martín de Salvatierra,
representative of the Catholic Kings after the conquest of Ronda. The
palace's inside show how austere Ronda palaces were in the 17th and 18th
century.
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