Casa de Pilatos

Why go

The main courtyard combines Mudéjar arches, Renaissance sculpture and dense tilework. Gardens and the upper rooms show how an Andalusian noble house evolved across centuries. At Casa de Pilatos, compare both closely. Casa de Pilatos rewards a slower circuit. Casa de Pilatos rewards a slower circuit.

What to look for

• The main courtyard combines Mudéjar arches, Renaissance sculpture and dense tilework.
• Gardens and the upper rooms show how an Andalusian noble house evolved across centuries.

The full story

La Casa de Pilatos (Pilate's House) is an Andalusian palace in Seville, Spain, which serves as the permanent residence of the Dukes of Medinaceli. The building is a mixture of Renaissance Italian and Mudejar Spanish styles. It is considered the prototype of the Andalusian palace. The palace is accessed through a Renaissance style marble gate, designed by the Genoese Antonio Maria Aprile in 1529, surmounted by a Gothic crest possibly brought from the palace that developers were building in Bornos. The gate leads to a typical Andalusian courtyard where a fountain surrounded by twenty-four busts of Spanish kings, Roman emperors and other relevant characters collected from the ruins of Italica are distributed along the lower galleries of the courtyard. The courtyard, in turn, leads to two gardens with plateresque adornements. A staircase to the top floor is decorated with azulejos tiling and a ceiling of mudejar honeycomb, made by Cristobal Sanchez. The rooms on this floor include major paintings dating from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, including the Pietà by Sebastiano del Piombo.

Useful to know

• Check the official visitor calendar and reserve ahead when timed entry matters.
• Combine it with nearby stops to avoid crossing the city twice in the strongest afternoon heat.

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