If you wish you can view this enclave through Google Earth . Antequera Town Hall Tourism Department. The Antequera bullring was inaugurated on the 20th of August 1848. As it was constructed in a hurry, the higher rows of seats were made in wood and they continued like that until 1980, when the Town [...]
Antequera Town Hall Tourism Department. The monumental facade consisting of three sections made of red limestone from El Torcal is, undoubtedly, one of the most important designs among those of its kind were erected in Antequera. There are documentary proofs that the building works for the palace were already started in 1711.The facade’s panel, which [...]
Antequera Town Hall Tourism Department. Until the Law of Disentailment, the present Town Hall or Municipal Palace was a convent owned by the Third Franciscans who were also the owners of the Los Remedios Church. Even if the façade has been redesigned in modern times, the interior still keep important pieces of the old monastic complex, [...]
Antequera Town Hall Tourism Department. The Palace of the Marquesses of La Peña de los Enamorados (the Rock of Lovers) was constructed in the second half of the 16th century, although it has to be said that the present aspect differs a lot from the original one due to the several restorations and additions made [...]
Antequera Town Hall Tourism Department. From the original Hospital building, it is still kept the main courtyard erected in the second-half of the 18th century whose higher gallery and the stairwell were restored later on. This stairwell, probably erected late in the 18th century, is the only example in “imperial” style from those in [...]
Antequera Town Hall Tourism Department. The Municipal Depot (El Pósito) was the wheat warehouse used by the Town Hall when trying to guarantee the normal supply of grain to the population. The building could be dated around the 17th century, although it has undergone many transformations and additions. The oldest space is the large nave or [...]
Tourist Department of the Antequera Town. The building works project was commissioned to the well-known architects Antonio Sánchez Esteve and Daniel Rubio who, at the beginning of 1933, gave form to the building. The construction started at the end of the month of April 1993. The building contractor was a company of Puente Genil (Córdoba) [...]
Antequera Town Hall Tourism Department. As a whole, it is an average mansion where the most outstanding element is the very interesting front. The first section, made of red limestone, has a rare design with curious fan forms on the pilasters and architrave's intersection. The second section is, without doubt, what gives real character to [...]
Antequera Town Hall Tourism Department. Almost all the first half of the 20th century was for the Sevillian architecture a search for its own lost entity. Within this movement (which has been called “Architecture of the Regionalism”) there is not any doubt that the most outstanding figure is that of Aníbal Gonzalez. The Serrailler Mansion in [...]
Antequera Town Hall Tourism Department. It is one of the most beautiful civil buildings in the town and an essential example of the local Mannerist style in Andalucia. Currently, from the original building, we only keep the façade which, finished in 1636, has three floors divided into three axes. It seems to have been inspired by [...]
