Bailia Palace

Adjacent to the Palau de Scala, there is the Palace of Bailia, one of the few civil buildings that has survived from the Foral era. It represents a palace scheme around a central courtyard, where recent archaeological studies have confirmed the appearance of remains of an original construction of the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries.

It is at the beginning of the sixteenth century when the courtyard is remodeled building the large stone arches and, probably the staircase, the work of a competent master and connoisseur of the advances in stereotomy developed in the 1490s by Pere Compte. In 1666 the orchard was incorporated and the exit arch was built, appreciating differences with those existing in the solution of the bases of the pillars. Around 1840 the building must have been acquired to become the headquarters of the Bailia and residence of the king’s attorney general, and six years later a series of intervention works were undertaken on the old residence of the Ferrers. From 1868, the date of suppression of the institution of the Bailia General, the building experienced alterations in its image, leading to the demolition of the front of the building on Serrans Street. In 1883 it was acquired by José Jaumandreu i Sitges who commissioned the master builder Vicente Alcayne to rebuild the palace.

The main access to the building is from the Plaza de Manises, a representative space very different in its layout and dimensions to the one that originally existed. It is therefore assumed that when Alcayne presented his proposal to the then owner, he planned to maintain as a significant element the Renaissance stone doorway, proposing the repetition of openings in the façade that falls on Serrans street. Later, the property was acquired by the Jaudenes family, Counts of Zanoni, being in this case the architect Luis Ferreres in 1904 in charge of the renovation works on the façade (incorporating the family coat of arms) and the garden.

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