Escrivá Palace

The Escrivá Palace is located in Plaza San Luis Bertrán in Valencia, very close to the Parish of San Esteban, in the same square where we find the Almudín.

Built in the fifteenth century, its current appearance is the result of the reform of the eighteenth century, of baroque character, which renounced old Gothic elements and created new balconies. These balconies look typical hardware of the eighteenth century.

The Gothic door of the palace stands out, which overlooks one of the corners of the square. It incorporates the noble coat of arms of the Green family of Montenegro, who were the second owners of this residence in the seventeenth century, and which serves as a passage to the courtyard where a Gothic staircase leads to the main floor.

This palace has the following distribution, structured around an open central courtyard: semi-basement, mezzanine, main floor and second floor. It was the ancestral home of the Scribes, illustrious Valencian dynasty of the Valencian nobility created by Guillem Benlloch, “the scribe”, the secretary of King James I. In the sixteenth century, one of his descendants, Juan Escrivà, related to Jerónima Boil, daughter of the lord of Manises, so this palace is also known by the name of Palace of the Scribes and Boil.

In 1976, a new restoration recovered part of the original Gothic elements that were blinded in the Baroque reform.

It is a magnificent example of a manor house with a Gothic façade in Valencia, one of the most attractive buildings in the city, located in an environment of high historical and artistic value.

Although for some time it was the headquarters of the Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country, today it is a private property that cannot be visited.

Site of Cultural Interest. Declared a National Historic-Artistic Monument in 1966.

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