Manor House

It is located in the town’s urban center, facing the bridge that crosses the Palancia River and close to the parish church. It is a solid fortified manor house, although it was probably built upon earlier constructions, as clear Roman remains have been found there. It was almost certainly begun under the lordship of Jofré de Blanes at the end of the 14th century, and King Martin the Humane stayed there in 1401. Although it has undergone many later renovations, it is still the best-preserved Gothic palace in the region, and one can clearly observe the combination of palatial and defensive elements, characteristic of manor houses from that period. Since 1897 it has belonged to the Baixauli family.
The building consists of a semi-basement —featuring a large number of arches— and three floors. Access is through a doorway with a semicircular arch made of wide voussoirs, and above it are the only two windows on the ground floor. Above this level there is a first crenellated section, and above it, set back, the noble floor, as shown by the rich pointed-arch windows. The towers, square in plan and crenellated, rise above the whole structure, although they have been joined by a final section of later construction, or at least one that was deeply altered.