Decanal Palace - Tudela Museum

Renaissance palace renovated by Dean Villalón in 1515. On the main brick façade, you can see the coat of arms of this Dean along with those of Pope Julius II, made of alabaster.
From the oldest part a window with a double ogee arch and a Mudejar brick tracery that faces Verjas Street are preserved.
The interior highlights the palace hallway and the Dean's private chapel on the noble floor. It is the headquarters of the Tudela Museum.

It is an architectural complex whose construction began at the end of the 15th century although it underwent renovations in the 16th, 18th and 19th centuries.

It is made up of two main bodies crowned with a gallery of arches that are topped by a brick eaves. Construction had already begun around 1477 in the Mudejar Gothic style of which some vestiges remain, highlighting a twin window with ogee arches that faces Verjas Street.

The main façade is located on Roso Street. We see here the Plateresque style decoration from the beginning of the 16th century commissioned by Dean Villalón, a humanist, great connoisseur of the Renaissance artistic innovations that were developing in Rome. He was a pontifical waiter and apostolic prothonotary of Pope Julius II, whom he considered his patron, and his arms appear on the alabaster shield on the cover along with two coats of arms of Dean Villalón. Also notable on the façade is the rectangular window with jambs and lintel decorated with plasterwork in the form of columns, coffers with rosettes and candelieri decoration.

In 1831 the façade of the Plaza de San Jaime was built. The interior of the building has already been rehabilitated in the 21st century and of the primitive structure we can only see an old staircase and an old Gothic chapel that is located in the hole of the tower.

Also interesting, from an architectural point of view, is the medieval cellar that has stonemason marks on some of its ashlars that can be related to the construction of the Cathedral.

Currently, the palace houses the headquarters of the Tudela Museum, in its oldest part, and the Ecclesiastical and Parish Archives, among other functions and services of the Church in the city.

The Museum of Tudela, diocesan ownership, houses a collection of local sacred art (sculpture, painting, altarpieces, ornaments and metalwork) and regional archaeology, in addition to having access to the visit of the Romanesque cloister of the Cathedral, and the Seo tudelana.

It is a very interesting museum, in which works of art stand out such as the Flemish panel titled “Last Judgment” from the Hieronymus school, the baroque paintings of the painter Vicente Berdusán, some Japanese lacquers of Nambán art or the gilded earthenware ataifor.