Description
The most emblematic building of the civil architecture of this municipality is the Jabalfifth Palace, which began to be built in the 15th century, was renovated in the 18th and 19th centuries and throughout the second half of the 20th century has been presagiating ruin. Its promoters were the Benavides, the owner of the lordship after his purchase of Baeza, who decided to symbolize his power by raising the palace in the space previously destined for strength, and centuries later they transferred it to the Counts of Benavente.
The palace floor is rectangular with built-in garden. It has a large landscaped facade enriched with two sillery covers dated in the last third of the 16th century. The main, south-facing, opens with a half-point arch framed by pilastras with Corinthian capitals on high bases. It is broken to accommodate a balcony of intellized vanity and an ancestor of forged iron. On their sides, there are two large-pack nobility shields held by tenants, carved a century later, which have an oval shape on a parchment and crowned sheet. On the sides are opened new asymmetric voids for windows with forging grille. The other cover is intellized, with large candles, pilasters with basaments, simple cornice and, on the top floor, a shaft window with the cover. In its interior is drawn attention to the vestibule, probably from the 19th century, whose roof is intertwined with small vaults; the railing of the ladder, of forged iron; the grating, subtly decorated; and the slender pillars that hold it.
A funeral monument with the date of 1895, with vegetable ornamentation and composite capitals, and another magnificent Baroque shield in the courtyard, is also preserved in a carved stone. In 1985 it was declared Good of Cultural Interest.
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