Manor Houses in Baeza
Baeza has been a World Heritage Site since 2003 thanks to its exceptional heritage that has been preserved since the Renaissance. In addition to the University, there are many religious buildings and a series of manor houses.
Casa Solariega de los Galeote
The Mannerist style house dates to the second half of the sixteenth century, built around 1575 by Francisco de Galeote and his wife Luisa de Guzman y Quesada, who used it as a private residence. In the middle of the twentieth century, the building was divided and its interior reformed.
Casa de los Cabrera
Commissioned at the beginning of the sixteenth century, since the Cabrera family ceded its previous location, the Casas Consistoriales Altas, to the Council.
Casa del Vicario
In June 1579, it was acquired for the Carmelo Descalzo Convent by San Juan de la Cruz. In 1610 a vicar, Don Miguel Navarro, resided here.
Casa de Don Pedro Nuño
This seventeenth-century building was commissioned by Pedro Nuño de Salazar and his wife, Luisa de Velasco, for private use.
Casa de los Escalante
The home of Don Antonio Escalante, Councilor and Lord, also the old Union Headquarters. Only the facade is preserved today. The site it occupied has been used as a landscaped public space.
Casas Consistoriales Altas
The late fifteenth-century building was owned by Gil Bayle de Cabrera, who gave it to the Council in order for it to be used as the Town Hall. Between 1511 and 1526, the building was reformed and enlarged, which is why two parts can be distinguished in the building. It has had multiple uses, including a municipal archive and a music conservatory.
Casa Antonio Machado
Poet Antonio Machado lived here during his stay in the city of Baeza. As a result of the illness and death of his wife, he moved from Soria to Baeza to teach French grammar.
Casa de los Acuña
Built at the end of the sixteenth century for Don Fernando de Acuña y Valenzuela and his wife, Doña Juana de León Navarrete.
Casa de los León
A typical seventeenth-century Mannerist manor house made up of a ground floor, first floor, chambers and semi-basement canteen.
Casa de los Perea
A manor house dating from the seventeenth century, in the Baroque style, consisting of two floors and preserving a masonry portal and central patio between buildings.
Casa de los Fontecilla
This eighteenth-century Baroque house was initially used as an inn at the beginning of the twentieth century. With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the inn temporarily reopening its doors once the war ended.
Casa de los Vela de Almazán
One of the best examples of eclectic architecture in Baeza, built in 1875 for the Vela de Almazán family.
Casa de los Aguilar
Construction of this house dates back to the seventeenth century. The most remarkable feature is the portal, flanked by two shields with helmets and lambrequins, one of them with the crowned eagle of the Aguilars.
Casa del Licenciado Pedraza
A sixteenth-century building that belonged to Juan de Pedraza and his wife Doña María de Quesada. At the end of the century, Leonor and Catalina de Pedraza lived in this house for a short time.
Casa de los Arévalo
The house was built around 1850, reusing materials from other buildings.
Casa de los Avilés
This house’s construction dates from the middle of the sixteenth century. To celebrate the academic success of one of its occupants in 1704, a cheer was painted on the voussoirs on its lintel.
Casa de los Ávila
The house belonged to Dr. Melchor de Ávila and his wife Doña María de Herrera. It is attached to the walls of the ruins of the old Iglesia de San Juan Bautista.