Montilla
near Montilla, Andalucía (España)
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Ayto. Montilla
It was built in 1601. Three important characteristics are that it is a stone building with a facade of neoclassical inspiration from the romantic period. It has a symmetrical structure as it has five openings on each of its floors and in the central area rises the turret of the old dial clock, a place on which two bells are housed.
Convento de Santa Ana
The convent of Santa Ana de Montilla was built in 1594 to house the congregation of the nuns. Characteristics: The temple is in the Tuscan style, with three naves with a transept, separated by semicircular arches supported by columns, the plasterwork of the dome and pendentives stand out, which are clearly related to other contemporary plasterers in the city and the exteriors. they are simple, even the front of the church.
Museo Garnelo
It was built at the end of the 19th century. Characteristics: The house is structured on three floors high, with eight exhibition rooms. It is a palace house with a characteristic style of the stately mansions of the late nineteenth century and its collection includes 180 works that make a journey that is broadly representative of the different stages and multiple facets of the artist.
Casa Don diego de Alvear
Built in the 18th century. Characteristics: neoclassical style, it has a cloistered patio on two floors with columns and arches and the house has a second patio where the service and cellar units were opened
Antiguo Castillo de Montilla
It was a medieval fortress from the 14th century. characteristics: it is structured in three floors, the first with five naves and the second with only three, both communicating with ramps to facilitate the ascent of the grain. The castle was bought in 1998 by the Montilla City Council to use it as the future Museum of Wine and the History of its Fortress as a watchtower built on a hill to later have a rectangular plan with a greater defensive line and new towers in the corners.
Casa Inca Garcilaso
It was built in the 16th century. Characteristics: it is divided into three gan coquete bodegs, a bar, an office, a central part and a façade. It is built in bare stone in the style of the time with great sobriety and was later restored and adapted to the public, preserving interesting elements of the time.
Convento de Santa Clara
It was founded in 1512 by the first Marquis of Priego, Don Pedro Fernández de Córdoba and from 1525 it became the convent of Santa Clara. Characteristics: Gothic-Renaissance façade, with evident relationships with the work of the first of the Hernán Ruiz, between pinnacles, it opens in a trilobed arch with a Gothic cardina and a complex tracery of crossed arches and It has a nave and square chevet with magnificent Mudejar coffered ceilings
Palacio de los Duques de Mediaceli
built between the 16th - 17th centuries. characteristics: the beautiful façade stands out especially, it was restored and is currently divided into two houses for private use and its golden stone façade is divided into two floors with numerous openings in parallel positions and a main access on the right-hand side, the which appears richly ornamented and whose upper balcony is flanked by the shields of the Casa de Priego and Feria.
Iglesia de San Sebastián
It is the oldest church in Montilla, built in the middle of the 16th century. Characteristics: It is a simple Gothic-Mudejar building, it has three naves and their respective straight heads, according to the usual model of that time: naves that are covered with wooden trusses raised on pointed arches with supports and capitals still from the Romanesque tradition and It was an old hermitage that was titled a church in the middle of the 20th century
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