# Palau Centelles

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Palau Centelles is an urban manor house in Barcelona, built between the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries by Lluís de Centelles. The residence stands on the site of a thirteenth-century house.

Three Montjuïc stone facades give the building a regular exterior, combining late Gothic forms with Renaissance details across each elevation. Its main entrance faces Baixada de Sant Miquel and opens beneath a broad semicircular arch. Above the doorway, the Centelles coat of arms sits within a Renaissance border and beneath a Gothic hood mould. Inside, a central quadrangular courtyard brings light and ventilation to surrounding rooms, with two staircases leading towards the mezzanine and main floor. Sculpted doors and windows make this courtyard the palace’s most representative interior space. The main floor contains rooms shaped by Baroque campaigns, including an eighteenth-century coffered wooden ceiling and a nineteenth-century Hall of Mirrors. Later renovations converted windows into balconies and altered the roof.

The building houses Catalonia’s Consell de Garanties Estatutàries and Institut d’Estudis de l’Autogovern. In 2000, archaeologists found a Roman domus beneath it, dating from the first and second centuries.

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