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C/ Herrerias 14
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42.06277, -1.60746
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Built in the middle of the 18th century by José Marzal y Gil, it is the seat of the Library and the Municipal Archives.
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The main façade, on Mercadal Street, is decorated with frescoes depicting figures and typically Baroque ornamentation. The interior features a double imperial staircase covered by eight groin vaults that surround an elliptical cupola on pendentives from whose arches hang four angels.
This palace is the best example of Baroque civil architecture in the south of Navarre. It was built between 1742 and 1745 by the master builder José Marzal y Gil.
The exterior shows two completely different façades. The one facing Herrerías Street has an ashlar stone plinth and two brick floors in which the openings are aligned; the one on Mercadal Street, the main one, is rebuilt taking advantage of previous buildings, maintaining a break in the alignment and a semicircular arch that already existed in the previous medieval house and a coat of arms on the keystone.
In this last façade, the fresco paintings that decorate the two floors stand out, following the baroque aesthetics of the time: decorative profusion, scenographic aspect, vegetal motifs, scallop shells, volutes... arranged in borders framing the openings of the two floors.
On the second floor, next to each opening, we see pairs of caryatids and fauns on plinths that support a split entablature with equestrian figures at the ends with a scallop shell in the center. On the upper floor, the decoration is reduced to architectural elements with vases, volutes, and beaded archivolts.
Inside we find a monumental double staircase of imperial type with opposite sections that responds to the concept of staircase-courtyard, a central element that allows indiscriminate access from each street.
The stairwell is covered with eight groin vaults that surround an elliptical cupola on pendentives. To complete the ensemble and enhance its scenographic character, four angels hang from the pendants of the arches.
In the early 80s of the 20th century, the City Council of Tudela acquired the property of the palace and renovated it to become the home of the Library and the Municipal Archives.
This palace is the best example of Baroque civil architecture in the south of Navarre. It was built between 1742 and 1745 by the master builder José Marzal y Gil.
The exterior shows two completely different façades. The one facing Herrerías Street has an ashlar stone plinth and two brick floors in which the openings are aligned; the one on Mercadal Street, the main one, is rebuilt taking advantage of previous buildings, maintaining a break in the alignment and a semicircular arch that already existed in the previous medieval house and a coat of arms on the keystone.
In this last façade, the fresco paintings that decorate the two floors stand out, following the baroque aesthetics of the time: decorative profusion, scenographic aspect, vegetal motifs, scallop shells, volutes... arranged in borders framing the openings of the two floors.
On the second floor, next to each opening, we see pairs of caryatids and fauns on plinths that support a split entablature with equestrian figures at the ends with a scallop shell in the center. On the upper floor, the decoration is reduced to architectural elements with vases, volutes, and beaded archivolts.
Inside we find a monumental double staircase of imperial type with opposite sections that responds to the concept of staircase-courtyard, a central element that allows indiscriminate access from each street.
The stairwell is covered with eight groin vaults that surround an elliptical cupola on pendentives. To complete the ensemble and enhance its scenographic character, four angels hang from the pendants of the arches.
In the early 80s of the 20th century, the City Council of Tudela acquired the property of the palace and renovated it to become the home of the Library and the Municipal Archives.
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