Palace of the Marquis of Montortal

Baroque palace located between party walls, from the last third of the eighteenth century, before 1782, which is the date on which the blazon on the cover was sculpted.

On the façade of Plaza Tetuán is the coat of arms of Doña Antonia Durán Rubio de Salinas. Dowager Countess of Castellá, Villanueva and Carlet.
The original layout of the building is two bays parallel to the main façade with a structure of load-bearing walls; The staircase is located at the third junction. It consists of two originally more differentiated bodies being the right corresponding to the typical triptych composition of the Baroque palace, with hierarchy of the new floor and significance of the central axis with access by stone portal with noble shield and worked balconies over it. The body on the left is rear.

The first body presents iconography belonging to the intervention of the nineteenth century such as curved lintels, toothed cornice, etc. The structure of load-bearing walls is lightened on the ground floor in the lobby with a central pillar to provide greater diaphanous access to the entrance It does not have a patio but is located on an isolated plot from the party walls of the adjacent buildings through the formation of two side alleys to which the side facades open empty. The reformed extension of the southern body proposes the creation of the large space where the wooden staircase that goes up to the main floor is located.

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