Palacio de los Vivero (Valladolid)

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Palacio de los Vivero
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Inner courtyard, first floor

The Palacio de los Vivero in Valladolid , the capital of the province of the same name in the Spanish autonomous region of Castile and León , was built in the late Gothic Mudejar style in the first half of the 15th century . The wedding of the Catholic Kings took place here in 1469 . From 1475 until its repeal in 1834, the building served as the seat of the Supreme Court of Justice ( Real Audiencia y Chancillería de Valladolid ) of Castile and then the Audiencia Territorial de Valladolid , the supreme judicial authority for the provinces of Valladolid , Palencia , León , Zamora and Salamanca . Today the Archives of the Province of Valladolid ( Archivo Histórico Provincial de Valladolid ) and the Real Academia de Medicina y Cirugía (Royal Academy of Medicine and Surgery) are housed here. In 1964 the Palacio de los Vivero was declared a monument ( Bien de Interés Cultural ).

history

The name of the palace goes back to Don Alonso Pérez de Vivero, who had the building built around 1440. Pérez de Vivero was Vice Count of Altamira and Contador Mayor of the Castilian King John II. His son supported the Castilian heir to the throne Isabella in a dispute with her half-brother Henry IV about the succession in the Castilian kingdom. On October 19, 1469, the marriage contract between Isabella and Ferdinand , heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Aragon, was signed in the Sala rica (rich hall) of the palace . With the marriage of the two, who were later given the title Reyes Católicos ( Catholic Kings ) by the Pope , the basis for the unification of the two kingdoms, the Crown of Castile and the Crown of Aragon was created .

After the death of Alonso Pérez de Vivero in 1453, the palace became the property of the Castilian crown. From 1475 on, Isabella and Ferdinand had the originally fortress-like palace rebuilt after they had acceded to the throne in Castile and had all defensive elements such as the corner towers, walls, moats and battlements removed. In the course of this construction work, the new inner courtyard was laid out. In 1489 the Catholic kings made the Palacio de Vivero the seat of the Real Audiencia y Chancillería de Valladolid , the supreme court of justice ( Real Audiencia ) of the Kingdom of Castile, established by Henry II in 1371 . The interior of the palace was converted into courtrooms for this purpose. After conquering the Kingdom of Granada , the last Moorish dominion on the Iberian Peninsula, Isabella set up another court in 1494 ( Real Audiencia y Chancillería de Ciudad Real ) for the areas south of the Tagus in the city of Ciudad Real , which is now an autonomous region Castilla-La Mancha is one. The Real Audiencia in Valladolid was in charge from now on only for the areas north of the Tajo.

In the 16th century, an annex was added to the palace, which, after its restoration in 1972, housed the archives of the former Court of Justice ( Archivo de la Real Chancillería de Valladolid ). In the 1960s the archive of the province of Valladolid was set up in the palace and in 1978 the Real Academia de Medicina y Cirugía in a wing on the ground floor of the palace .

architecture

On the first floor, a balcony opens over the portal, over which the royal coat of arms is attached. The wooden door leaves with their nail fittings and door knockers are still original. The rooms of the palace are arranged around a two-story, right-angled courtyard. The galleries are supported by polygonal pillars with simple capitals . The ballroom, the Sala rica , occupies two floors and is covered with an Artesonado ceiling in the Mudejar style. A round arch framed by pilasters and decorated with rosettes opens up to the stone staircase .

  • portal

  • Balcony and coat of arms above the entrance

  • Staircase

Web links

Commons : Palacio de los Vivero  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archivo Histórico Provincial de Valladolid Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte (Spanish, accessed December 16, 2016)
  2. ↑ Palacio de los Vivero Archivos de Castilla y León (Spanish, accessed December 16, 2016)
  3. ↑ Archivo de la Real Chancillería de Valladolid ( Memento of the original of December 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte (Spanish, accessed December 16, 2016)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mecd.gob.es

Coordinates: 41 ° 39 ′ 23.2 "  N , 4 ° 43 ′ 13"  W.