Historic palace in Carmona

Descripción

This house-palace is of the Baroque house-palace type. It is an important noble house located in the historic and monumental centre of a town near Seville, just opposite the façade at the foot of the main church, on the only plot in the small street occupied by the two buildings, one facing the other.

It is thought that some of the remains of an earlier manor house, possibly dating from the 16th century, were supposedly reused for the construction of this palace. These elements would be those located on the left side of the halt, where the stables are located. However, the main part of the rest of the building, which includes the monumental main doorway bearing the coat of arms of its promoter and some of the noble rooms of this house-palace, date from the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

This is one of the most important and richest examples of civil architecture in the province of Seville, located in the heart of the monumental area of the city within the city walls and facing three streets, on the front and sides, and situated in front of the façade of the parish church.

It is a building that stands out for its horizontality, as it does not exceed two storeys in height, which corresponds to the type of palace-houses that were built in this area in the Baroque period, with the most significant element on the outside being its splendid stone façade organised in two high sections.

The lower section of this façade is centred on a lintelled opening that is framed between two pairs of Tuscan columns with fluted shafts, arranged on different levels with respect to the façade. These columns support a broken entablature that decorates its frieze with triglyphs and metopes and is crowned with a thin cornice.

The upper part of the façade is centred by a balcony that is enclosed around its entire perimeter by a straight balcony with lugs at the upper corners and decorated in the central part of the lintel. It is flanked by columns, also with fluted shafts that end in capitals on which are added dice that support a cornice which, on the columns, are horizontal and end in pyramidal pinnacles, and on the centre of the opening forms an arch in the form of a curved pediment where the Rueda family coat of arms is housed and which finishes off the doorway.

Passing through the doorway, one comes to a partly vaulted halt, which in turn leads to the stables on the left, the large central courtyard and other noble outbuildings on the right.

The rest of this part of the house, built in the 18th century, is organised around a courtyard framed by semicircular arches set on marble columns. On the left side of this courtyard is a sumptuous staircase leading to the upper floor, and at the back of the building is the auxiliary service area where a cellar and the wine cellar can be seen.

It is listed as an Asset of Cultural Interest in its Monument typology, as published in the BOE (Official State Gazette) of 1983.

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