A walk around Seville. The area that was close to our hotel!

Palacio del Marqués de la Motilla as seen from Calle Larana in Seville.

The palace of the Marquis of Motilla appears in the historic center of Seville as if it were a medieval building, being in the street with street Laraña Crib in the Old Town. The project was conducted between 1921 and 1924 and was completed in 1931.

Its construction is constrained by the need to build a new facade to the street Laraña, affected by the spreading operation is subjected to this, in the early twentieth century , along with other major city streets.

This is a project carried out between 1921 to 1924 , whose works are performed very slowly motivated by the problems caused by the expansion itself, being finished in 1931 .

In an age historicist its owner, the Marquis of Motilla , hires two major architects of the day to carry out his work, light medieval character: on the one hand works its creator, architect Gino Coppedè , who is responsible for the building design, and other Vicente Traver , whom would fall the technical direction of the work.

This raises a building clearly inspired Florentine having a front cutting-medieval Italian hardly indifferent to who passes by her. Its main feature is its superb lookout tower, made ​​of brick, with rectangular and about twenty feet high appears crowned by powerful battlements, which together reminiscent of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence , which is inspired its author.

Other related items give character to the tower, such as the teeth of the upper cantilever often under the battlements or series of arches neogothic your windows linked with fine columns, giving it a look of authentic urban castle.

The rest of the street facade Laraña also involved the upper battlements, like the tower, and has under him a beautiful gallery of arches that gives aspect of medieval cloister.

But this facade was not the only one who was treated for this intervention, as presented to the Cuna Street , where there is a body style regionalist dominated by a beautiful gazebo, was also modified also creating between them a wall at an angle, goticista equally inspired pair both bodies.

This wall opens to the outside through a succession of hollow pointed arches , and the angle has a large balcony flown on corbels with ledge stone in draft. Behind him a courtyard garden is created, giving rise to a unique corner frontage, therefore she is tall like his unconventional use, which further emphasizes the vision of the high tower of medieval court.