MONDRAGON PALACE RONDA
The Palace of Mondragon, also known as Palace of the Marquis of Villasierra, is a wonderfull building regarding its architectonical aspects, and witout any kind of doubts, is the most significant civil monument of Ronda
The legend tells that it was formerly home of the great king Abel Malik or Abomelic, son of the Morroco´s sultan Abul Asan. Few years later after the death of Abomelic, the kingdom of Ronda was dependent on the Kingdom of Granada, and it is also known the the last arab governor Hamet el Zegri lived also at this palace.
The entrance courtyard belongs to the Gothic style, with stone columns at each side of the door with chapitels with a different use as its original, holding up wooden bases which leads to the intermediate stage, where the different museum rooms are located.
The entrance courtyard is very nice, with a gallery at each of its sides, containing semicircular arches, with brick decoration at its basis and top, over columns with Corinthian base and chapitel of the Renaissance style of great quality. Similar to this courtyard was a built at Sevillle the Patio de Levies, which at the moment has been rebuilt as gallery at the Reales Alcazares.
In the 18th century was built the exterior side of the farcade, with an important masonry and double columns over a Dorian base and lonic pillaster chapitel, being the top one pediment broken at its midle point in order to put inside one third decorative order consisting of pirs of Corinthian columns. All that decoration of the 18th Century is shown at the ground floor adding also the halt and the formerly stables.
It is also remarkable the noble room of the palace with a wonderful mudejar coffered ceiling.
The legend tells that it was formerly home of the great king Abel Malik or Abomelic, son of the Morroco´s sultan Abul Asan. Few years later after the death of Abomelic, the kingdom of Ronda was dependent on the Kingdom of Granada, and it is also known the the last arab governor Hamet el Zegri lived also at this palace.
The entrance courtyard belongs to the Gothic style, with stone columns at each side of the door with chapitels with a different use as its original, holding up wooden bases which leads to the intermediate stage, where the different museum rooms are located.
The entrance courtyard is very nice, with a gallery at each of its sides, containing semicircular arches, with brick decoration at its basis and top, over columns with Corinthian base and chapitel of the Renaissance style of great quality. Similar to this courtyard was a built at Sevillle the Patio de Levies, which at the moment has been rebuilt as gallery at the Reales Alcazares.
In the 18th century was built the exterior side of the farcade, with an important masonry and double columns over a Dorian base and lonic pillaster chapitel, being the top one pediment broken at its midle point in order to put inside one third decorative order consisting of pirs of Corinthian columns. All that decoration of the 18th Century is shown at the ground floor adding also the halt and the formerly stables.
It is also remarkable the noble room of the palace with a wonderful mudejar coffered ceiling.
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