Palacio de los marqueses de la Algaba

Palacio de los Marqueses de la Algaba stands in Seville as a major example of Mudéjar civil architecture. Its stone-and-tile entrance leads into a central courtyard framed by arcades, while a lateral tower echoes the Torre de los Guzmanes in nearby La Algaba. Mudéjar design brings Islamic and Christian influences together through geometric patterns, intricate woodwork, and richly decorated surfaces.

Juan de Guzmán y Torres commissioned the palace in 1474, and the Guzmán family expanded it with neighbouring houses between 1475 and 1526. Later changes added renovations, apartments, shops, and even a twentieth-century cinema before restoration took place between 1997 and 2005. The Centro de Arte Mudéjar now displays more than 100 objects, including storage jars, seals, tiles, Gothic tombstones, wooden muqarnas, and fifteenth-century painted corbels.

One ground-floor room preserves its original wooden ceiling, where plant motifs sit beside coats of arms. A seventeenth-century marble column from Genoa also survives in the courtyard, recalling the palace’s earlier interior.